From a new review of Art’s book Murmurations from FlaxFlower Reviews:
“They’re all very accessible, and even readers who don’t usually read poetry should find them rewarding.”
New review of Murmurations
Author: ronart2
New review of Murmurations in Landfall Review Online (University of Otago Press)
“Murmurations is Art Nahill’s second collection, and it is remarkable. Nahill writes with a keen, empathetic awareness of human frailty”
So begins a review of my recent book Murmurations in Landfall Review Online (University of Otago Press). You can read the rest of it here:
The book is available through Time Out Books and Unity Books in Auckland, through Amazon or Fishpond, or through Twohemispherespoetry.com
Talking poetry at College of the Atlantic from another hemisphere!
Honored and thrilled today to give a reading and talk about the relevance of poetry in contemporary society (via video link) to students at College of the Atlantic as part of their seminar: Poetry as Art and Social Action, taught by writer, teacher, and old friend Martha Donovan. Students are writing about the links between poetry and politics, poetry, healing, and medicine and other incredibly important topics.
NZ National Poetry Day, 24 August
In honor of National Poetry Day in New Zealand, here’s one of my favorite quotes about poetry from Marvin Bell: “What they say ‘there are no words for’– that’s what poetry is for. Poetry uses words to go beyond words.” And here’s a poem from Murmurations called “Echolocation’ that tries to say that in a different way:
I navigate between
sky and stone
stone and the reflection.
of stone. The trees sing
back to me in my own
voice. I have no need
for vision my ears fine-tuned
to the night’s faint frequencies
hunting echoes
making my way through the dark
by steering
toward the silences.
NZ Herald Review of Murmurations
Award-winning poet Siobhan Harvey writes, ” Always Nahill’s forms are carefully crafted, the illuminations of his poems resonant.”
Two Hemispheres Poetry 