Ok, I've started having Launch Stress Dreams. I'm legendary for this sort of thing – it's like my brain works through every possible permutation of what can, may, will, almost certainly won't, should and/or is incredibly-unlikely-unless-we-break-through-into-another-space/time-continuum happen. Seriously. I think I can discard the “room turning into a disco danceoff session, with John Travolta naked” …
Planning The Summer King launch!
To add to the chaos the NaPoWriMo has already brought to my life, I'm putting the finishing touches on the plans for my book launch. Many thanks to those of you who offered suggestions. I've just sent off the registration papers to have it all listed as an Official Montana Poetry Day Event. Assuming NZ …
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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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 