Beattie's Book Blog - Launch of A Tingling Catch

Graham Beattie posted a very good report of the launch of A Tingling Catch. He also included Don Neely's launch speech and some photos. The link is
http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/tingling-catch-launched-at-basin.html

Thanks Graham.

Beattie's Book Blog post on A Tingling Catch

I was delighted to find the following post on A Tingling Catch on Graham Beattie's highly regarded "Beattie's Book Blog" (Saturday 30 October 2010):

'A Tingling Catch' is the first anthology of New Zealand cricket poems to be collected. It is where poetry meets the essence of cricket: bowling, batting, fielding, commentary, cricket watching and listening, accounts of famous matches and players, childhood cricket poems, social members of the game and lots more!
The result is a wonderful insight into the world of cricket from all levels and standpoints of the game that will have the reader tingling for the next catch from some of our best poets. I have so enjoyed reading their poems.
The anthology presents some of New Zealand literature's most well-known names (and some overseas authors), both past and present, featuring highly acclaimed and award winning poets and cricket writers such as Don Neely, Kevin Ireland, Michael O'Leary, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Brian Turner, Harry Ricketts, James Brown, Geoff Cochrane, John Clarke (aka Fred Dagg), Whim Wham, Denis Glover, Mark Pirie, Richard Langston, Bill Direen, William Pember Reeves, Elizabeth Smither, Anne French, David Eggleton, David Mitchell, Graham Lindsay, Thomas Bracken, Murray Edmond, Samuel Butler (England), Sir AP Herbert (England), Nick Whittock (Australia) among others.

More at: http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/tingling-catch.html

Graham also lists three of his favourites from the book:

ANTON VOGT

Sportsman

Eluding his opponent, knowledge,
He kicked and bowled his way through college;
And now that he has entered heaven,
He plays for Peter's 1st X1.

BRIAN TURNER

Cricket

A game about which
you can know very little
and say anything
and be right sooner or later.

HARRY RICKETTS

Epitaph for an old cricketer

Death's sharp offcutter

has bowled you though the gate.

Thanks Graham.