In June 2021, my publishing company HeadworX released Slips: Cricket Poems in paperback and hardback.
The book contains 145 pages of my poetry on cricket written
from 1994-2021 and divided into sections like 'Édges', 'Matches' and 'Tributes'. It captures many moments in cricket history, makes tributes to notable players (Kevin Pietersen, Joe Root, Sachin Tendulkar, Phil Hughes, Aravinda Da Silva, Garry Sobers, Chris Gayle, Kane Williamson and other former Black Caps including the ICC
World Test Championship Final in England) as well as the more social aspects of
the game and imaginary fictions like Outer Space Cricket.
Slips includes a nice foreword written by The
Cricket Society’s News Bulletin editor John Symons, also a MCC Cricket Book of
the Year Judge. John writes that: “Our summer game is fortunate to have
found such a good and talented friend and chronicler in Mark Pirie.”
The book has been reviewed in Landfall online review
and the NZ Listener magazine.
For more details on the book and sample poems, please visit
the HeadworX website:
Slips: Cricket Poems by Mark Pirie
https://headworx.co.nz/poetry/slips
Paula Green featured audio poems of me reading on NZ Poetry
Shelf:
Poetry
Shelf celebrates new books: Mark Pirie’s ‘Slips: Cricket Poems’ | NZ Poetry
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Here is a list of reviews for this book:
Kerry Lee, Regional News, 28 September 2021, p
26.
Paula Green, NZ Poetry Shelf, 19 November, 2021.
Nicholas Reid, New Zealand Listener, October 2021, October 16-22, p
55.
John Symons, Journal of the Cricket Society, Vol 31, No 2, Spring
2022, pp. 73-74
Robert McLean, Bowled
Basilisk, Caught Agdistis - The Landfall Tauraka Review, 1 May 2022
Slips is available internationally online at lulu
independent bookstore Shop the Indie Online
Bookstore | Lulu.
