Event by Helen Lehndorf

Palmerston North City Library

You are cordially (and green ginger wine-ly) invited to help me launch my fourth book (second volume of poetry) The Bruise Palette (Firestarter Press).

Come at 6pm, share a glass, there will be (brief) kōrero from me, writing friend Carly Thomas, publisher Anthony Behrens and a special treat from local legend Abi Symes-Button. I’ll read a coupla the poems, too.

I entered this book into the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award (for an unpublished poetry manuscript) last winter and it was longlisted…a boost which gave me the confidence to proceed with publication.

Here’s an excerpt from the blurb:

‘With the grounded lyricism readers loved in The Comforter and A Forager’s Life, Helen Lehndorf captures the beauties and burdens of entanglement with people and with place.

The poems of The Bruise Palette move through the demands of care, complexities of community and raw radiance of deep nature connection.’

Hope to see you there. x

Firestarter Press, Manawatū, Aotearoa.
Release date – 29/5/26