NZPS – A Dark Feathered Art

7 June 20117 June 2011

‘An island entire’ – judging the NZPS 2011 Haiku comp

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. – Abe Fortas Today my sack of poems from the NZPS 2011 International Haiku Competition arrived. This is my first time judging for the NZPS, and I'm feeling a strange surge of pleasurable anticipation. I know from …

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10 November 200824 November 2008

After the Launch

Back from the launch of Before the Sirocco in Wellington. It was a good night – heaps of people turned up, and included a large junior contingent from Christchurch. (Well done everyone!) Met lots of people who's names and poems I've been familiar with for the last few years, and generally had a ball. …

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