Daffodils? Check. Hayfever? Check. Blackbirds negotiating sex and territory from 4am? Check. It must be time again for the Canterbury Poets’ Collective Poetry in Performance readings! You can download your own copy of the poster by clicking here. Or just feast your eyes below: As always, a mixture of well known, not-so-well-known, local and visiting poets: Sept …
Amberley Writers’ Teaparty
For those of you who wonder what exactly it is that writers do (when they do whatever it is that makes them writers), this Sunday will provide you with the chance to see three of us discussing our work, our (writing-related) play and our preferences in the high tea department. Yes, I’m talking about the …
Awards! Parties! Prizes! Cake!
Break out the party hats and hoist the streamers! It’s that time of year again: the announcement of the New Zealand Post Book Awards! The full guff can be viewed on the official BookSellersNZ website, but Book of the Year went to Jill Trevelyan’s biography, Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer; …
Canterbury Poets’ Spring 2012 Readings Series
Hooray hooray, spring has sprung, the garden is going ape-shit, and it’s time for the CPC Poetry Readings again! Isn’t it a nifty poster? Not to mention a fascinating lineup? (Well, other than me.) (No, bollocks to that – including me!) You can download a copy of the official poster for yourself, your friends and/or …
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It ain’t me, babe (no, no, no)
Well the shortlist for the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards is out … and I didn't make it. Oh well. The NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry has gone to Selina Tusitala Marsh for Fast Talking PI (AUP). Congratulations Selina! The shortlist for the Best Poetry Book is a Mainland …
A Dark Feathered Art 