Ah Spring. Season of late frosts, soggy lawns, and poetry. Specifically, the annual Canterbury Poets’ Collective Poetry in Performance readings! Perfectly designed to slot in to your Wednesday evenings from September 26th to November 14th, it’s the longest-running poetry readings series in New Zealand, bringing together a mix of the established, the novice, and the completely …
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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A Dark Feathered Art 