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Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books gives Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems a glowing radio review
My Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day poetry wish list …
- We get to hear a poem on RNZ National before the 2pm news every Friday (or noon) – like a poem bird call.
- We still get to read a Friday poem in a newspaper or monthly poem in a magazine.
- Making up poems with your children goes viral.
- We get to read poems on buses and trains like you get in London.
- Someone picks a page and recycles the words into a poem to send to someone else like a bunch of irises (yep reading-writing Robin Hyde this week).
- Hundreds of poetry books get bought on Poetry Day so publishers big and small keep publishing this little species.
- I read Sarah Jane Barnett’s fabulous poetry picks and follow her drinks match.
- New Zealand poems get read in schools.
- Children read poems in retirement villages.
- I get to read all the new poetry books in my stack and share this week.
- Poetry workshops are active with refugees, women’s refuges, prisons, schools, libraries, bookshops.
- Some cafes have a wall poem.
- Libraries have interactive poem features (like National Library’s origami boat).
- On-line poetry activity continues to flourish like wildfire at The Spin Off and Pantograph Punch and other excellent sites.
- We have mixed up citytownruralyoungoldnorthsouthshortlongedgyheartsmackingnervetinglingbody moving poetry events.
- People make up poems in their head even when they think they can’t.
- The Hard to find Bookshop stays in business because it is poetry gold.
- Selina Tusitala Marsh shows young poets what poetry can do across the nation.
- We have a national poetry festival that blasts all borders.
- I get to have a long poetry lunch with good food and good wine and lots of poetry.
h a p p y p o e t r y d a y
for SJB:
pantograph punch’s MIXED POETRY TAPE for phantombillstickers national poetry day
National Schools Poetry Award celebrates New Zealand’s poets of the future – hear the winner at Vic Books today
Zora Patrick, a year 12 student of Wellington High School, has won first place in the 2017 International Institute of Modern Letters’ (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award, with her poem ‘Dampening’.
Zora receives a prize of $500 and the opportunity to attend a poetry masterclass with judge Ashleigh Young and fellow poet James Brown at the IIML, home of Victoria University’s prestigious creative writing programme. Zora’s school library also receives a $500 book grant. Nine other gifted young poets were shortlisted in the awards and they will also attend the masterclass.
“I’m really happy to have received this award and am looking forward to reading the other shortlisted entries. I’m also looking forward to the masterclass and meeting other people interested in poetry. My other big interest is drama, which is similar to poetry in the sense that you have to be receptive to what’s around you, and that is a big part of my writing,” says Zora.
Judge Ashleigh Young—poet and winner of the 2017 Ockham New Zealand non-fiction book of the year prize for her collection of essays Can You Tolerate This?—says it is often the poems which frame the everyday or suspend a single moment that are the most compelling.
“When I came across Zora Patrick’s poem ‘Dampening’, in which we see a man at the seaside, oblivious to everyone else, diving under and sticking his legs up in the air, I saw someone watching a small, ordinary moment in time and holding it up. Zora’s poem does that marvellous thing of telling us just enough that we can imagine the possibilities of the day. I found myself thinking of stories that might surround the poem. What else had the man been doing that day? Was his family on the beach, watching him? What was his life like? It’s Zora’s deft handling of surprising detail that allows for myriad possible interpretations.”
Zora Patrick will read her winning poem at the Starling journal event–VicBooks Kelburn Campus, 10.45am, Friday 25 August–to celebrate Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day.
The nine shortlisted poets are: Katie Gotlieb, Otago Girls’ High School; Antonia Smith, Rangitoto College; Hannah Wetzel, Kaitaia College; Logan McAllister, St Andrew’s College;
Tessie-Rose Poutai-Tipene, Te Wharekura o Mauao; Millie Hulme, Timaru Girls’ High School; Anna Doak, St Margaret’s College; Emily Rais, Homeschooled; Piper Whitehead, Diocesan School for Girls.
“This award recognises the ongoing vitality of poetry among young writers. It gives young poets a boost. It will also give readers of the top poems a boost to see the imaginative daring of these talented new voices,” IIML Director Professor Damien Wilkins says.
All shortlisted students receive an additional package of literary prizes provided by the New Zealand Book Council, Victoria University Press, Sport, Landfall, and the New Zealand Society of Authors, as well as $100. Flights and accommodation costs are covered for students outside of Wellington to attend the masterclass at the IIML.
The 2017 National Schools Poetry Award is organised by the IIML with the support of Creative New Zealand and advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, with promotional support from Phantom Billstickers and Wonderlab.
The winning poem, the judge’s report and all the shortlisted poems will be available on the National Schools Poetry Award website from 8am on National Poetry Day, Friday 25 August.
For more information contact Alix Chapman on (04) 463 6908 or alix.chapman@vuw.ac.nz
Victoria University of Wellington: Capital thinking. Globally minded.
Poetry gifted to the nation on Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day
Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day celebrates 20 years on Friday 25 August and gifts to the nation, inaugural online poetry Collection 20/20.
The 20/20 Collection features poems by many of New Zealand’s best loved poets, including C. K. Stead, who ends his two-year stint as Poet Laureate on Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day. Stead was one of 20 acclaimed poets asked to select one of their own poems for inclusion in 20/20, as well as a poem by their favourite or emerging poet. The 40 poems that complete the Collection reflect the diversity and vibrancy of our literary talent. The 20/20 Collection is free to download here
The acclaimed poets featured in the 20/20 Collection are: Jenny Bornholdt and the poet she chose, Ish Doney; Paula Green and Simone Kaho; Vincent O’Sullivan and Lynley Edmeade; Apirana Taylor and Kiri Piahana Wong; Alison Wong and Chris Tse; Tusiata Avia and Teresia Teaiwa; Kevin Ireland and Gregory Kan; Diana Bridge and John Dennison; Andrew Johnston and Bill Nelson; Michael Harlow and Paul Schimmel; C.K. Stead and Johanna Emeney; David Eggleton and Leilani Tamu; Elizabeth Smither and Rob Hack; Richard Reeve and Michael Steven; Robert Sullivan and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku; Bill Manhire and Louise Wallace; Selina Tusitala Marsh and Reihana Robinson; Cilla McQueen and David Holmes; James Norcliffe and Marisa Capetta; and Brian Turner and Jillian Sullivan.
The 20/20 Collection features work by living New Zealand poets with one exception: Tusiata Avia’s selection of a poem by Teresia Teaiwa. Sadly, Teresia died of cancer in March, aged just 48. She was a much loved and influential figure in Pacific studies, and the New Zealand Book Awards Trust committee, who convene Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day, hopes that her inclusion in 20/20 encourages more people to seek out her important creative and critical work.
Award-winning writer and Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day spokesperson, Paula Morris says, “Lots of people do talk about this as being a really great time for poetry in New Zealand, and one reason is that there are a lot of new young voices coming out that really reflect New Zealand as it is now. You see a huge amount of diversity; you see younger people writing and publishing books and younger people appearing on stage, and you see Asian writers and Pasifika writers and Maori writers. Poetry is where they are often first emerging.”
To celebrate Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day, many of the 20/20 poets will take part in more than 100 events nationwide. For full information, including places, venues, times, tickets and more, go here
Bravo Pantograph Punch: Sarah Jane Barnett picks 5 poetry books with 5 accompanying drinks for Poetry Day
For Sarah’s selections see here. Great choices that all deserve a reread with the recommended drink!
Issue 7 of min – a – rets is out now
see here
The Spinoff builds to NZ Poetry Day with a poem by Bart English
Read the poem here.
It was The PM Awards BTW!
I like this poem! I wonder how old he was? Not that that matters.
Auckland University Press invites you to the launch of Tightrope
On National Poetry Day 2017, please join us in celebrating the launch of Selina Tusitala Marsh’s new poetry collection, Tightrope.
Cat Ruka in collaboration with COVEN will activate ‘Tightrope’ – koha appreciated for these talented dancers!
Maori and Pasifika books sold on the night to celebrate Reading Brown! Teachers in particular are most welcome!
4.30 pm, Friday 25 August 2017
Fale Pasifika
University of Auckland
Auckland, 1010
NZ Poetry Shelf 