News just to hand (well, gleaned from listening to The Arts on Sunday, so apologies if I've made a mistake) – judged this year by Ian Wedde, the 2009 Kathleen Grattan Award for poetry has gone to … Auckland poet, Leigh Davis, for Stunning Debut of the Repairing of a Life, a book length poem written …
Kathleen Grattan Anniversary
One year ago today, I came home from shopping, checked my emails, and my life changed. One year ago today I found out I'd won the Kathleen Grattan award. One year ago today. Somewhere out there is another poet, trying not to burst with the news. Or maybe this year's winner is a veteran of …
Poetry at the CPIT Summer School
Hooray! I've just found out that the three short poetry courses I pitched for the CPIT Summer School programme have been approved! I can't go into detail yet, but if you fancy dedicating some time to the muse this summer, you might like to pencil the following dates into your diary: ◊ 18th, 19th, 20th …
launching moments in the whirlwind
Saturday was the launch of the 2009 NZPS anthology, moments in the whirlwind. It was an interesting event, as always – a quite different segment of the poetry public to those you tend to see at other Canterbury poetry events. And a decent crowd too – probably a hundred or so people. Chairs were at …
The Summer King – now on Amazon!
Yes, at long last, The Summer King is available through Amazon! Both US and UK now have it listed, and apparently a batch has been shipped out to the US distributors, so it should be in stock any day now. The other thing this means is the possibility for people to start leaving reviews in …
A Dark Feathered Art 