It's possible I've been watching too much television – you know the shows I mean, which usually involve people who are vulnerable and desperate lying back and thinking of Hollywood while perky and annoying hosts with the sort of teeth that you only see on advertisements run around clasping their hands and promising to do …
Autumn, Season of Readings
Well it's that time of year again. The leaves are starting to lose their green (so much for our "long hot summer"!) and shorts and T-shirts have settled into the back of the drawers. And all around Canterbury poets are trying out their voices – standing in front of mirrors, shuffling papers, timing themselves and …
Four Tellings – a shameless plug
I'm mainly blogging about this on my haibun blog, but I figured a reference here would be appropriate. Or opportune. Or something. I now have copies of Four Tellings: A Haibun Sequence available for sale. It's a nice basic little chapbook – 22pg, saddle stapled, B&W cover. NZ$6 within New Zealand, or NZ$7 for airmail postage …
Sonnets for SIWA – the results
Well it's all done and dusted now. Results have been handed out, winners cheered and others given their "short, helpful comments" from the judge. Who were the winners? (Drumroll please) 1st: Elizabeth Robertson, "My father is never lonely", Runner-up: Shirley Eng, "A Bicycle sonnet", Commended: Janice Healey, "Water! Right!", and Mary Fitzgerald, "Post Spring Song". …
booklaunch – Tusiata Avia’s “Bloodclot”
Last night I went to the launch of Tusiata Avia's second collection, "Bloodclot". It was a good launch – a bit of a who's-who of the female portion of the Christchurch literary scene. Held upstairs in the Debating Chamber at Our City O-Tautahi, (which used to be the Christchurch Tourist Information Centre when I first visited Christchurch). The …
A Dark Feathered Art 