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Tag: New Zealand Poetry Society

Posted on 18 April 2012

Wellington, on a good day night

Back home again after a quick trip to Wellington, where I was the guest poet at the April NZPS meeting. The whole thing takes place upstairs at the Thistle Inn, which is a gorgeous old building on Mulgrave St. All timber floors and branching corridors and rooms tucked around corners and down passageways. Apparently it’s …

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Posted on 9 November 200910 November 2009

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 …

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Posted on 25 September 200925 September 2009

snatching moments in the whirlwind

This week I've been proofreading the 2009 NZPS Anthology – moments in the whirlwind. It's being edited by Barbara Strang this time, and she's done a lovely job. Because Christchurch poets have featured so heavily in the competitions for the last couple of years, the official launch of the anthology will be in here in Christchurch …

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Posted on 28 July 200830 July 2008

The difference between judging and editing

I've just about finished making the selections for the anthology. Everything has been read, re-read, and re-reread. Longlists have been compiled, and shortlists are emerging. Fingers crossed, I should be able to get notifications out by the end of next week. The mechanics of selection are pretty much the same for judging a competition and …

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Posted on 21 July 200825 July 2008

NZPS anthology – the process

When your entries arrive at the NZPS (comfortably before the cut-off date, naturally), the competition secretary enters the details (your name and address, plus the titles, first lines etc of your entries) in a database, and assigns a unique code number to each individual entry. The two copies are separated (of course, you followed all …

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