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Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Harry Ricketts launches Selected Poems
| You are warmly invited to the launch of Selected Poems by Harry Ricketts at Unity Books, Wellington on Wednesday 23 June, 6pm Harry will be joined by special guests for poetry readings All welcome. |
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Alison Glenny and Liz Breslin Wellington poetry launch
Compound Press and Dead Bird Books present: Alison Glenny – Bird Collector
Liz Breslin – In Bed with the Feminists. A double book launch for two very different works by comrades in writing. Please join us for some refreshing words and wordy refreshments.
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Verb Wellington Writer’s Residency with Katherine Mansfield House & Garden
When: The residency period is Sunday 17 October (arrive this day to settle in) until Monday 8 November (check out of accommodation).
What: You will receive a $3,000NZD stipend to cover food and other incidental expenses over your three-week stay. From Monday to Friday during each of the three weeks, you will have use of a small, private office space with access to Wifi and basic kitchen facilities at Katherine Mansfield House & Garden. You will have warm, sunny, self-catering Airbnb accommodation located close to the Botanic Gardens and within walking distance to Katherine Mansfield House & Garden and the CBD.
Required: You will be required to do up to two public events while in Wellington for the residency (one event may be within the Verb Writers Festival which is 3 – 7 November) and to attend one welcome dinner and farewell event.
Travel: Aotearoa authors will need to cover the cost of domestic travel to Wellington.
Application requirements: Before you begin, please be aware that to complete the registration you will need to attach a 10-page sample of work with 1.5 line spaces and in 12-point font. You will also need to attach a maximum 2-page CV.
Application fee: We charge $10NZD per application. We are a Charitable Trust and this amount means we cover the costs of administration for the residency.
Deadlines: applications open on Friday 11 June and close Friday 9 July. The successful applicant will be notified by Monday 26 July.
full details here
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Simone Kaho named as 2022 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence at Te Herenga Waka
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce Simone Kaho as the 2022 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence.
Simone will receive a stipend of $15,000 from Creative New Zealand to work on a collection of essays about identity and colonisation in Aotearoa New Zealand, with a special focus on the Pacific diaspora. She will also be supported by a mentor, funded by the University.
Born in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Simone is well known as a performance poet and creative non-fiction writer. Her 2016 poetry collection Lucky Punch was called “brave and beguiling” in the New Zealand Herald, while the Pantograph Punch noted the book’s “affirming joy”. She has a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the IIML, which she received in 2010.
Simone directed the E-Tangata documentary series Conversations, which features six Māori and Pasifika women telling their stories. She also wrote the editorial and stories for WAKA, about the battle to continue cultural practices around waka building and way-finding. She now works as a reporter for Tagata Pasifika.
Simone is looking forward to working on a collection of creative non-fiction essays during the residency. “I’m so happy to be awarded this residency. I’d put the idea on the shelf as work that’s too creative to be saleable to magazines, so work I’d end up doing in ‘hobby time’. It needs more time and space than that.
“The project follows lines of cultural inquiry I see emerging around me in Aotearoa—about who ‘we’ are and who gets to define ‘us’—from my viewpoint as a Tongan and Pākehā person for whom being ‘other’ is normal. I’m grateful for the time and space to work on it, and for the vote of confidence from the IIML, which means a lot to me.”
Professor Damien Wilkins, director of the IIML, says, “We’re very excited to host Simone later in the year. The residency recognises a new stage in her development as a writer whose work for E-Tangata has allowed her to build an impressive body of feature pieces. This work sits alongside her terrific poetry, with the residency allowing Simone to go deeper into these urgent topics.”
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: A Clear Dawn goes on tour in SI
This week Alison Wong and Paula Morris are taking A Clear Dawn on a tour of the South Island! If you’re in Wanaka, Arrowtown, Dunedin or Invercargill, we’d love you to join us in celebrating this landmark anthology. Everyone is welcome and more event details can be found here
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Sam Duckor-Jones launches Party Legend
Victoria University Press warmly invites you to the launch of
on Wednesday 16 June, 6pm
at Crumpet, 109 Manners Street, Wellington
Party Legend
by Sam Duckor-Jones
Books available for sale courtesy of Food Court Books.
All welcome.
Poetry Shelf backlist: Min-a-rets 10
Min-a-rets 10, Compound Press, editor Sarah Jane Barnett
Poetry Shelf has put me in the sublime position of receiving pretty much every poetry book and journal published in Aotearoa NZ – but I never have enough time or energy to review everything. Yes I only review books I love, but I don’t get a chance to feature all of them. There is always a hopeful pile of books and journals that have enchanted me but that I have not yet shared. I guess it is even worse this year as I have cleared space for my own writing in the mornings and I don’t want to encroach upon that. I am really grateful that most poets don’t badger me and expect superhuman efforts on a blog that runs on the currency of love and my fluctuating energy levels. I have decided to make little returns to that hopeful stack and, every now and then, share something that you might want track it down.
I sometimes pick a poetry book hoping it will offer the right dose of rescue remedy – a mix of poetic inspiration along with heart and mind sustenance. My return to Min-a-rets 10 did exactly that. Poet Sarah Jane Barnett has edited an issue that is supremely satisfying. In her introduction she expresses anxiety at not being ‘cool’ or young enough to edit a journal that is to date cutting edge, experimental, younger rather older. But once she had read the 100 or so submissions, her fears were allayed. I totally agree with her summation of the Min-a-ret gathering:
In the end I had nothing to worry about. The poems I’ve selected are beautiful, painful, challenging, thought-provoking, heartbreaking and funny. They reminded me that good poems shine no matter their genre or when they were written. They make life feel intense and bright. While this issue includes mid-career poets, there’s definitely a new generation stepping forward, and I have admiration for their commitment to craft, and to sharing an authentic experience—to not conforming. That’s cool.
10 poets with art by Toyah Webb. A slender hand-bound object published by Compound Press. Within a handful of pages, the poetry prompts such diverse reactions, it is like the very best reading vacation. I laughed out loud, I stalled and mused, I felt my heart crack. Above all I felt inspired to write. That exquisite moment when you read the poetry of others that is so good you feel compelled to write a poem.
essa may ranapiri has written a counting poem from tahi to iwa, with deep-rooted personal threads that underline there are myriad ways to count self and the world and experience. Memory. Then the honeyed currents of Elizabeth Welsh’s mother poem that free floats because motherhood cannot be limited. And yes Erik Kennedy made me laugh inside and then laugh out loud as the ending took me by surprise. Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor transports me from the optician leaning in to staring at strangers to probability to ‘wow’. I am so loving the little leaps that intensify the scene.
Oh the aural genius of a Louise Wallace poem, especially when she pivots upon the word ‘trying’.
Or Joan Fleming’s line ‘Some confessions stick like stove filth’. Or Travis Tate: ‘Love is the sky, pitched black, radiant dot / of white to guide young hearts to this spot’. Or Eliana Gray’s: ‘We can’t save the people we love from drowning when it / happens on sand’.
Two list poems from Jackson Nieuwland, a witty serious funny precursor to their sublime award-winning collection I am a human being (Compound Press). And finally the laugh-out loud glorious prose poem by Rachel O’Neill where reason becomes raisin: ‘If only there was one good raisin left in the world, you think.’
Read this body-jolting issue and you will surely be inspired to get a subscription.
Compound Press page
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Before I Go Home – poetry reading at Food Court Books
Kia Mau Festival is excited to announce ‘Before I Go Home’, a night of poetry celebrating migrant voices of Pōneke, at Food Court Books on the 12th of June, 6pm. Curated by Wellington poets Khadro Mohamed and Ronia Ibrahim, Before I Go Home features popular and emerging Pōneke poets from migrant backgrounds, including Chris Tse, Vanessa Crofsky, Emma Shi, Nuzha Salem, Areez Katki and Adriana Che Ismail. Join us in the heart of Newtown for a rich and diverse poetic experience, that brings the diverse voices of migrant and tauiwi identities to the forefront of Aotearoa poetry.
See here for details
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