New Zealand Poetry Society Wellington meetings are usually held on the third Monday of each month. Click here to find out the date and venue for the next Wellington meeting.
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NZ Book Council, Wellington
Friday 25 July, 6.30pm.
City Gallery Cinema, Civic Square
Join the Book Council for drinks and nibbles and a special free post-AGM event. Come in out of the cold and hear poet Geoff Cochrane and novelist Elizabeth Knox talk about their work and life in this city they inhabit. AGM kicks off at 5.30pm (members only). Drinks & nibbles 6.00pm. Event begins at 6.30pm. Free to Book Council Members. Non-Members Koha. www.bookcouncil.org.nz
Belfast Touring Poets, Auckland
Friday 25 July, 7pm
Devonport Vintage Bookshop, 81A Victoria Rd, Devonport
Belfast Touring Poets, Wellington
Saturday 26 July, 7:30 pm
Wellington Irish Society Bar, 10 Fifeshire St (off Cambridge Tce), central Wellington.
Belfast Touring Poets, Palmerston North
Sunday 27 July, 3:30 pm
Palmerston North Residents Association Conference
Palmerston North City Council chambers, The Square, Palmerston North.
The Belfast Poets will end the conference, starting at 3.30pm.
Hinemoana Baker, Kapiti Coast
Sunday 27 July, 4 - 6pm
Lembas Cafe, Raumati South
Hinemoana Baker has written plays, fiction, children's stories and film scripts, but mostly writes poems and songs. Her first poetry collection, matuhi | needle (VUP/Perceval Press) was published in 2004 both in New Zealand and the US, and launched alongside her first album.
Hinemoana's full stage show usually finds her combining music, text and traditional Maori instruments with a digital sampling pedal, a scuba tank and a bucket of water. She's currently working on a second book of poems loosely wrangled around themes of travel, homesickness and extinction (working title What The Destination Has To Offer) and a new album of sad ballads.
Hinemoana works as a teacher of Creative Writing at Whitireia Polytechnic in Porirua, and as a producer and sound designer, making radio features and albums of music, poetry and sound art.
Belfast Touring Poets, Wellington
Monday 28 July, 7.00pm
Happy Bar, Cnr Tory & Vivian Sts.
You may remember these hep cats from a Howltearoa show last year- they are big on the Poetry against Racism Kaupapa and are great performers. Apparently they want some Word Collective whanau to get up and speak and are keen to catch up with us before or after to nut out some ideas, re: World Domination or some such folly- any keen thinkers/speakers out there please text Craig at 021 227 8356 or email: wordcollective@gmail.com
Poetry Live, Auckland
Tuesday 29 July, 8 pm
The Classic Studio, 321 Queen St, Auckland
The launch of live lines #1, Poetry Live's latest anthology
Belfast Touring Poets, Auckland
Wednesday 30 July, 7:00 pm
Auckland University, Library Basement, Alfred St
Writers on Mondays (IIML), Wellington
Monday 4 August 5.30pm
National Library Auditorium, Cnr Aitken & Molesworth Sts.
Hand to Hand - Five Laureates. Current Poet Laureate Michele Leggott is joined byJenny Bornholdt, Bill Manhire, Elizabeth Smither and Brian Turner.
Poetry Live, Auckland
Tuesday 12 August, 8 pmThe Classic Studio, 321 Queen St, Auckland
Guest poet Genevieve McLean, guest musicians Murray Haddow & the Electric Light Orchestra
NZPS Monthly Poetry Reading, Wellington
Monday 18 August 7.30pm
The Wellington Arts Centre, 61 Able Smith St
Open mic, and a reading from Australian Poet Geoff Page, who has published 16 collections of poetry, as well as two novels, two verse novels, and a reader's guide to contemporary Australian poetry. $2 entry.
Poetry Live, Auckland
Tuesday 19 August, 8 pm
The Classic Studio, 321 Queen St, Auckland
Guest Poet: Geoff Page (Australia).
The White Album Readings, Wellington
Wednesday 20 August, 6.30pm-8pm
City Gallery Theatre, Civic Square
Helter Skelter
Mark Pirie
Harry Ricketts
Richard Langston
Rob Hack
MC Niel Wright
Plus launch of Mark Pirie's new books Slips: cricket poems (ESAW) and Bottle of Armour and Trespassing in Dionysia (both Original Books).
Writers on Mondays (IIML), Wellington
Monday 25 August 1-2pm
National Library Auditorium, Cnr Aitken & Molesworth Sts.
Australian poet, Geoff Page, in a lunchtime appearance.
The White Album Readings, Wellington
Thursday 28 August, 6.30pm-8pm
City Gallery Theatre, Civic Square
Revolution
Niel Wright
Helen Rickerby
Evelyn Conlon
Will Leadbeater
MC Harvey Molloy
Plus launch of Rickerby's My Iron Spine (HeadworX)
Janet Frame Memorial Lecture, Wellington
Sunday, 31 August, 10am - 5pm
Te Papa opens its doors for a fantastic programme that marks the opening of New Zealand Book Month. A day of poetry, music and talks including the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture.
Last year the inaugural Janet Frame Memorial Lecture was delivered by Owen Marshall. This year Gregory O'Brien will speak on behalf of the New Zealand Society of Authors. Gregory O'Brien (born Matamata, New Zealand, 1961) is a Wellington-based poet, essayist, painter and art curator. He divides his time between a position as senior curator at City Gallery Wellington and various book projects. His poetry collections include Days Beside Water (AUP 1993/Carcanet 1994), Winter I Was (VUP, 1999) and Afternoon of an Evening Train (VUP, 2005). He has edited numerous anthologies and art catalogues, and written extensively about New Zealand culture. He has published two books introducing the country's visual arts to a younger generation, Welcome to the South Seas (AUP, 2004) and Back and Beyond (AUP, 2008). His book of essays on New Zealand arts and letters, After Bathing at Baxter's appeared in 2002 and was followed by a book length essay about the antipodes and Southern France, News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore (Carcanet/VUP, 2007). O'Brien was a guest at the Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, in 2005 and his poems were the basis for a range of clothes from Auckland-based fashion designer Doris Du Pont the following year. (NZSA)
Writers on Mondays (IIML), Wellington
Monday 1 September 1-2pm
National Library Auditorium, Cnr Aitken & Molesworth Sts.
Jennifer Compton, poet, playwright and current Resident of the Randell Cottage, talks with Mary McCallum.
The White Album Readings, Wellington
Wednesday 3 September, 6.30pm-8pm
City Gallery Theatre, Civic Square
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Michael O'Leary
Gemma Claire
Marilyn Duckworth
Bill Dacker
MC: Nelson Wattie
Plus launch of O'Leary's Paneta Street (HeadworX)
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