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Pat White’s new poetry book will raise money for a Creative Writing Award for senior students at Mackenzie College

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To be launched on 28th August, National Poetry Day, 2015 at Mackenzie  College & Community Library, Fairlie, by Jillian Sullivan. Fellow poets Michael Harlow and Sue Wootton will attend the launch and read.

Frontiers Press is pleased to announce the publication of Fracking & Hawk, poetry by Pat  White.

These poems, writes John Horrocks, ‘draw on a lifetime of immersion in the natural world and its rhythms’, and follow on from Planting the Olives (Frontiers, 2004). In Fracking & Hawk, the poet has added a strong sense of disquiet to his well-known observation of rural life and nature. This ‘deep engagement’ is described by Sue Wootton as being, ‘beautifully crafted, intelligent, and full of heart’.

The proceeds from sales of the book will be going towards setting up a Creative Writing Award for senior students at Mackenzie College.

Compounds & Collisions at Q Theatre mixes it up in a creative sampler

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We’re showcasing the hidden treasures of Auckland’s creative scene with a curated sampler of artistic delights.

This instalment features poems by Jess Holly Bates and Tourettes, a performance by 2015 Billy T winner Hamish Parkinson, readings by novelist Sue Orr and playwright Josephine Stewart-Tewhiu and Tui-award-winning music by Great North’s Hayden Donnell.

Tickets are $15 and available from Q Theatre. All proceeds go towards paying our wonderful writers.

Compounds and Collisions is part of a trilogy of writerly events. See the others here.

Victoria University Press warmly invites you to the launch of Ocean and Stone by Dinah Hawken

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Victoria University Press warmly invites you to the launch of

Ocean and Stone   by Dinah Hawken

on Thursday 10 September, 6pm–7.30pm
at Unity Books, 57 Willis St, Wellington.

Ocean and Stone will be launched by Greg O’Brien

$35, paperback, colour drawings by John Edgar

About the book:
Ocean and Stone, Dinah Hawken’s seventh collection of poetry, is a book of many elements.

The central sequence page : stone : leaf, interspersed with the striking drawings of John Edgar, is framed by poems of growing up and growing old. They, in turn, are framed by poems written in the natural world, beside a lake and beside an ocean. At the heart of this book is urgency: the urgency to know the limits of our planet and ourselves, and to live within them.

Ocean and Stone is elemental Dinah Hawken, at once meditative and resolute.