Rock & Roll: Selected Poems in Five Sets by Mark Pirie. Bareknuckle Books presents in this series of edited collected editions, daring new writing from the 21st Centuries best contemporary international poets.
With the publication of "Shoot" in 1999, Pirie established himself as one of the most promising of the younger New Zealand poets. "Gallery" brings together the best of Pirie's early work from his first five books published in New Zealand.
Sidelights features poems about the All Blacks, Super and provincial rugby, womens rugby and the authors own rugby family. First published as a limited edition hand-bound booklet in 2013, this new enlarged edition contains rugby poems from the past four years and is accompanied by historian Ron Palenskis informative foreword. The books title 'Sidelights' comes from an Eden Park rugby column of the same name in the Auckland Weekly News, 1930s.
A flamboyant figure of his generation, Mark Pirie was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1974. In the past six years, he has published nine collections of poems, a collection of song lyrics and a book of short fiction. In 1995 he co-founded the literary journal JAAM (Just Another Art Movement) and in 1998 he edited the iconoclastic anthology, The NeXt Wave. This new book collects for the first time the complete "replugged and uncut" picture of his early experimental output, and includes, among other interesting things, some uncollected rarities as well as over a dozen new poems. "The Mark Pirie juggernaut rolls on..." - Jack Ross, brief
Bullet Poems is Mark Pirie's seventh collection of poems. Structured into four rounds, Pirie takes aim at a wide variety of contemporary issues and debates, particularly war, politics and world events. In the process the book shows a widening of style and subject matter from one of this country's leading young writers.
Prose writers have had it their own way for too long. At last, here is an anthology of poetry from New Zealand that captures the essence of science fiction: aliens, space travel, time travel, the end of the world - as well - as concepts you may not previously have thought of as science fiction. Fasten your seatbelts as editors Mark Pirie and Jim Jones present some of New Zealand's best poets - past and present - shining the flashlight of science fiction on our universe, and relishing the strange images that result. Bristling with insight, sections like Back to the Future, Apocalypse Now, Altered States, ET, When Worlds Collide and The Final Frontier will have you speculating right along with the poets.
Mark Pirie's new collection laments that our culture is getting 'dumber' and thus presents poems that are both parodic and purposely 'dumb'.Written in the frame of a mock conversation with God, it covers wide ground: religion, history, literature, people and places, and in doing so reveals once more the complexities and the absurdities affecting our everyday lives.
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides information about how you can connect mobile devices to IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS®) Transaction Server (CICS TS), using existing enterprise services already hosted on CICS, or to develop new services supporting new lines of business. This book describes the steps to develop, configure, and deploy a mobile application that connects either directly to CICS TS, or to CICS via IBM Worklight® Server. It also describes the advantages that your organization can realize by using Worklight Server with CICS. In addition, this Redbooks publication provides a broad understanding of the new CICS architecture that enables you to make new and existing mainframe applications available as web services using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), and provides support for the transformation between JSON and application data. While doing so, we provide information about each resource definition, and its role when CICS handles or makes a request. We also describe how to move your CICS applications, and business, into the mobile space, and how to prepare your CICS environment for the following scenarios: Taking an existing CICS application and exposing it as a JSON web service Creating a new CICS application, based on a JSON schema Using CICS as a JSON client This Redbooks publication provides information about the installation and configuration steps for both Worklight Studio and Worklight Server. Worklight Studio is the Eclipse interface that a developer uses to implement a Worklight native or hybrid mobile application, and can be installed into an Eclipse instance. Worklight Server is where components developed for the server side (written in Worklight Studio), such as adapters and custom server-side authentication logic, run. CICS applications and their associated data constitute some of the most valuable assets owned by an enterprise. Therefore, the protection of these assets is an essential part of any CICS mobile project. This Redbooks publication, after a review of the main mobile security challenges, outlines the options for securing CICS JSON web services, and reviews how products, such as Worklight and IBM DataPower®, can help. It then shows examples of security configurations in CICS and Worklight.
This IBM® Redpaper Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM System z® New Application License Charges (zNALC) pricing structure and provides examples of zNALC workload scenarios. It describes the products that can be run on a zNALC logical partition (LPAR), reasons to consider such an implementation, and covers the following topics: Using the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile to host applications within an IBM CICS® environment and how it interacts with CICS applications and resources Security technologies available to applications that are hosted within a WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile in CICS How to implement modern presentation in CICS with a CICS Liberty Java virtual machine (JVM) server How to share scenarios to develop Liberty JVM applications to gain benefits from IBM CICS Transaction Server for IBM z/OS® Value Unit Edition Considerations when using mobile devices to interact with CICS applications and explains specific CICS technologies for connecting mobile devices by using the z/OS Value Unit Edition How IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS runs in the transaction server to provide decision management services for CICS COBOL and PL/I applications Installing the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) Feature Pack for Modern Batch to enable the IBM WebSphere® batch environment to schedule and manage batch applications in CICS This book also covers what is commonly referred to as plain old Java objects (POJOs). The Java virtual machine (JVM) server is a full-fledged JVM that includes support for Open Service Gateway initiative (OSGi) bundles. It can be used to host open source Java frameworks and does just about anything you want to do with Java on the mainframe. POJO applications can also qualify for deployment using the Value Unit Edition. Read about how to configure and deploy them in this companion Redbooks publication: IBM CICS and the JVM server: Developing and Deploying Java Applications, SG24-8038 Examples of POJOs are terminal-initiated transactions, CICS web support, web services, requests received via IP CICS sockets, and messages coming in via IBM WebSphere MQ messaging software.
More than 150 poems are gathered here, exploring a wide range of sources including films, song lyrics, comic strips, and other forms of popular culture. Set both in New Zealand and overseas (e.g. 'Postcards from Singapore'). Wellingtonian Mark Pirie's second book of poetry; he previously published 'Shoot', and also edited the 1998 anthology of New Zealand 'Gen-X' writing, 'The NeXt Wave'.
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