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Let’s celebrate the poetry of Tai Tokerau Northland with the launch of Fast Fibres Poetry 13 at ONEONESIX, 116a Bank Street Whangarei, Wednesday 26 August from 5.30 to 7.30pm There will be readings by the poets and copies available for sale. The biggest issue yet. harikoa | happiness
Event by Gonville Wisdom Circle, Women’s Network Whanganui and Airini Beautrais Gonville Library Duration: 1 hr Public · Anyone on or off Facebook Join us for a fun crafty hour of making zines (mini handmade magazines) for your poetry, musings, art, thoughts or whatever takes your fancy! BYO favourite poems to read and share while […]
Another great line-up!
HIDE: a manuscript launch Thursday, 24 September, 6.00pm – 8.30pm Bedlam & Squalor, 1/18 Garrett Street, Te Aro, Wellington, 6011 (map) Register This event is free to attend – please register to secure your place.This venue is not wheelchair accessible. You are hereby invited to the launch of HIDE, an illuminated verse-narrative chapbook written and […]
I would so so love to be at this event with poets whose work I hold dearly.
Connection point There are ways to connect the electricity within us, responsibly. Patterns can be prescribed by the regulating bodies and the sub-departments within. Specific failure switches can be installed to handle operator incapacity. You can hire a qualified professional to complete the work. The best way forward, for us, right now, is just to […]
Landing Press and Crip the Lit invite Deaf and disabled writers to come along and muse on the topic of wai — water — at the Body of Water workshop. Our aim is to create poems to be considered for the next Landing Press anthology Water Wai. The workshop happens in-person at Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, […]
Sailing into truth and the line wobblesSailing into news of wars and the nib breaksSailing into corrupt politicians and the ink freezesSailing into a poem on the mānuka and my heart eases This week Poetry Shelf was back on line and I ended up stalling in the Poetry Shelf Breathing Room, the place to slowly […]
Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook -all soulseditor, Tracey SlaughterMassey University Press, 2026anthology page Wild Houses Bright bright horses choose me to house their hooves. Houses house their light like the eveningholds lock-jaw streetlights, and kitchen windows house inaccessiblegrief and joy; like the sun sets in princess colours, yawns pastel mouths.I have walked these paths so lonely the […]
Scorpio Books and Dead Bird Books warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of This Imperfect Light by Ben Brown with original artwork by Bill Hammond (29 Aug 1947 – 30 Jan 2021). Shining on a selection of works from the poet Ben Brown and the artist Bill Hammond, This Imperfect Light is a collaboration born from […]
