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 …
Poetry in Performance – the year’s final
Wednesday night is the final session of Poetry in Performance from the Canterbury Poets' Collective. Yes, after this Wednesday night it's back to boring nights around the TV, shivering in the intellectual wasteland that our lives will then become. (Unless of course I manage to get a Wednesday night poetry course up and running, in …
and a time was had by all
Well it's happened. The Summer King has been officially Launched. As feared, the weather in Christchurch was horrible. After a week of surprisingly pleasant weather (this has been an unusually cold, grey and wet winter so far), Friday quickly degenerated into scuds of sleety, spitty showers. And a high of 8˚C. Oh joy! And access …
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 …
A Dark Feathered Art 