Join us for an evening of great poetry and fun people for our 12th straight year running All Tomorrow’s Poets at Time Out Bookstore. It’s a relaxed event featuring readings from five poets. Always one of the highlights of our year!
Entry Details: Koha, no age limit and no RSVP needed
Date/times: Friday 28 August, 6.00pm – 8:30pm
Location: Upstairs at Time Out Bookstore, 432 Mount Eden Road, Auckland
Contact: books@timeout.co.nz
Further Info: https://www.timeout.co.nz
This will be good!
What are you doing for National Poetry Day?
You’re most welcome to join us and a host of wonderful speakers at our annual All Tomorrow’s Poets event.
Friday 28th August 6pm – 7.30pm.
Free entry, but any koha given will be directly distributed amongst our performers
Let’s celebrate the poetry of Tai Tokerau Northland with the launch of Fast Fibres Poetry 13
at ONEONESIX, 116a Bank Street Whangarei, Wednesday 26 August from 5.30 to 7.30pm
There will be readings by the poets and copies available for sale. The biggest issue yet.
harikoa | happiness
Event by Gonville Wisdom Circle, Women’s Network Whanganui and Airini Beautrais
Duration: 1 hr
Public · Anyone on or off Facebook
Join us for a fun crafty hour of making zines (mini handmade magazines) for your poetry, musings, art, thoughts or whatever takes your fancy! BYO favourite poems to read and share while we craft.
Some materials and equipment supplied but BYO if you have anything special you’d like to use.
A lead-in to NZ National Poetry Day on 28 August.
This event is suitable for all ages and all are welcome
Another great line-up!
Thursday, 24 September, 6.00pm – 8.30pm
Bedlam & Squalor, 1/18 Garrett Street, Te Aro, Wellington, 6011 (map)
This event is free to attend – please register to secure your place.
This venue is not wheelchair accessible.
You are hereby invited to the launch of HIDE, an illuminated verse-narrative chapbook written and illustrated by Rebecca Hawkes.
This launch will open with a hybrid performance of poetry and melody, with cellist Emily Winter summoning Medieval music for lambskin slinks and kisses stolen under eclipses.
This new offering from ngā pukapuka pekapeka offers reverence for the fragility of life, predicaments of faith, and the endurance of art.
Pre-order your copy of Rebecca Hawkes’ HIDE: a manuscript, published by ngā pukupuka pekapeka at Unity Books Wellington, Verb’s Official Festival Bookselling Partner.
I would so so love to be at this event with poets whose work I hold dearly.
Connection point
There are ways to connect the electricity within us, responsibly. Patterns can be prescribed by the regulating bodies and the sub-departments within. Specific failure switches can be installed to handle operator incapacity. You can hire a qualified professional to complete the work. The best way forward, for us, right now, is just to touch each other. You can generate static electricity if you perform a set of actions in the stipulated order. Other, harder to capture electrical effects may be present in some scenarios, depending on the connection point. I have noticed flutters, zaps and sometimes a pronounced pulsing. You may notice other types of electrical phenomena. You can note down anything you’re feeling on the notepad provided. Or just tap it out in Morse Code on my arm and I’ll document it later. Yes, it is an effective technique to softly run your tongue across my bottom lip a moment before you kiss me. Please note, other participants may not respond to this gesture in the same manner. Yes, I can feel the effect in other anatomical locations. Can you? I see. I see. Perhaps you should introduce a canine tooth to the equation. Maybe we will see an uptick in voltage.
Emma Barnes
Emma Barnes (Pākehā, they/them) lives in Aro Valley, Te Whanganui a Tara | Wellington. Their poetry has been published in journals including Landfall, Turbine | Kapohau, Cordite and Best New Zealand Poems (2008, 2010, 2021). They performed in Show Ponies in 2022 and 2023. They are the author of the poetry collections I Am in Bed with You (2021) and IF WE KNEW HOW TO WE WOULD (2025) as well as co-editor with Chris Tse of Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa (2021). They work in tech and spend a lot of time picking up heavy things and putting them back down again.
Landing Press and Crip the Lit invite Deaf and disabled writers to come along and muse on the topic of wai — water — at the Body of Water workshop. Our aim is to create poems to be considered for the next Landing Press anthology Water Wai. The workshop happens in-person at Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, Wellington Central Library, on September 13, 2-4PM. RSVPs (essential) and any pātai to beetrudgeon@hotmail.com .
NZ Poetry Shelf 