You'll have to excuse me if the NaPoWriMo post for day 9 is delayed. The proof copy of my first collection, The Summer King, arrived today! I was so nervous, I actually put it down and picked it up a couple of times before opening it. (Correction: before my friends demanded that I stop mucking …
Christchurch loves Libraries
A non-NaPoWriMo post, prompted by an article in today's Christchurch Press. There was a bit of verbal jousting last month when the Ellerslie International Flower Show opened in Christchurch. For non-Kiwis – Ellerslie is a suburb of Auckland, where the flower show used to be held. We more or less snaffled the show from under …
Utter bloody rudeness
As you can tell from the title, last night was a very mixed pleasure. A poet who I shan't name (but who is extremely experienced as a performer, and should have known better) managed to screw two of the Open Mic readers. Yes, I was one of them. And yes, some of this may well …
Splash! The Airing Cupboard turns 20
Twenty years ago, four women met in a room little bigger than a cupboard, to air their poems for the first time ... Or as founder Karen McNabb put it in her speech last night, "to share inspirations, aspirations, and desperations". Yesterday was the Airing Cupboard's 20th anniversary party, and the launch of the Airing Cupboard's …
Push, and the 2nd installment of the Autumn Readings
Busy night at the MCB last night. And a good one! First up was the launch of David Gregory's third collection, Push (Black Doris Press, 2008). I'm in a poetry group with David (the infamous "Poots Group"), so many of the poems were familiar to me. But seeing them all together was startling. He's a friend, …
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A Dark Feathered Art 