Welcome to 2018. (Yes I know it’s been underway a while. I was giving it all time to make sure it was actually the new year happening, and not just 2017 in a loop.) As you will notice, the website has had a bit of a refurb. Hopefully you like what you see. A change …
Rhian Gallagher wins the NZ Post Best Poetry Book Award 2012
Some really wonderful news – last night Rhian Gallagher’s gorgeous collection, Shift, won best poetry collection at the NZ Post Book Awards! I consider Rhian a friend, so I can’t review the book. But I can, will, have and do tell people what I think about it – it is brilliant, musical, deft, moving, and …
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Awards! Awards!
I’ve been a bit slow getting around to this post, and the number of things to be posting about has hit critical mass. But first, a brief pause to pay homage to Father Ted: Almost a month late, but congratulations to John Adams, who has won the 2012 NZSA Best First Book Award for Poetry …
Poetry Day 2011 – Reading in Dunedin
Hooray, I'm coming back to Dunedin for a Reading! (And working very hard to resist the urge to play around with the rhyming possibilities of the phrase …) Details below and in the sidebar, and you are most welcome to print off a copy of the poster for your own use, whatever that might be: …
A Dark Feathered Art 