Here’s a special bonus for all of us in need of some live poetry:
Riemke Ensing will be reading at the Port Chalmers Public Library, 6.00pm on Thursday 27 February. No need to book, just turn up!

Riemke Ensing is an Auckland poet, born in Holland, and in her work ‘has distinctively synthesised European and New Zealand influences’ – NZ Book Council

She has had several volumes of poetry published. Among her recent achievements are first prize in the NZSA Kevin Ireland Poetry Competition 2012, and also in 2012 she received the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for poetry.