The Phoenix of Poetry – the Canterbury Poets’ Spring 2011 Readings Series

Like a phoenix from the ashes, the CPC Readings Series has shaken off the demise of two venues to return in a burst of glorious spring colour. A paltry 300 metres south of the beloved ex-site of the MCB, the readings have relocated to “new big fat comfortable venue” is the CPIT Students Association (CPSA) Hall, at  5 Madras Street. (It’s the bright yellow building just to the right of the main entrance – you can’t miss it.) There is a cafe onsite, and patrons can use the main pay-and-display carpark at CPIT.

And once again, the guest poets for the final evening will be … the winners of the Open Mic from the previous 8 weeks. Hooray! (Who knows – maybe I’ll give “Fare” its first public airing …)

Canterbury Poets Collective (CPC) presents

Poetry in Performance

the 2011 Spring Season
October–December 2011

Open microphone and guest readers

Wednesdays 6.30 pm
$5 entry

CPIT Students Association (CPSA) Hall
5 Madras St

audience vote for the Best Open Mike Poet each night

• 19 October   Vincent O’Sullivan, Jan Hutchison, Christina Stachurski,
  and the Official Launch of VoicePrints3, featuring BYO & Visiting poets from 2010;
• 26 October   Diana Bridge, Rodney Foster, Helen Bascand;
• 2 November   Selina Tusitala Marsh, Mark Raffills, Helen Jacobs;
• 9 November   Bill Manhire, Steve Thomas, Dina Durrer;
• 16 November   David Eggleton, Poets of The Hagley Writers’ Institute;
• 23 November   Vana Manasiadis, Gail Collier, James Norcliffe;
• 30 November   Sarah Broom, Catherine Fitchett, Sandy Bain;
• 7 December   Winning Open Mike Poets from the season

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