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Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Poets at May’s Tuatara Open Late
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Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Tracey Slaughter launches Devil’s Trumpet
Victoria University Press and Poppies Bookstore
warmly invite you to the launch of
Devil’s Trumpet
by Tracey Slaughter
on Thursday 15 April, 6pm
at Poppies Bookshop,
Casabella Lane, Barton St,
Kikiroa, Hamilton.
All Welcome.
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Takapuna Poetry Tour and other events in Urban Walking Festival 2021
Takapuna Poetry Tour 2 pm, 8 May, Takapuna
The Takapuna Poetry Tour features contemporary poets performing poems in response to Takapuna and its writing history. Join us for spoken word and poetry on the streets. Poets include Jack Ross, Renee Liang, Kiri Piahana Wong, Elizabeth Morten and Ruby Porter.
Walking In Lockdown 7 pm, 28 April, Ellen Melville Centre
Five writers, Russell Brown, Nisha Madhan, Karlo Mila, Zech Soakai and Kennedy Warne, tell their stories of walking in a time of COVID-19.
Full details of Urban walking events
From 22 April to 16 May, some of Auckland’s most enthusiastic city-lovers will be celebrating their place with free walking tours throughout our city’s neighbourhoods and I’m delighted to let you know the programme for the Urban Walking Festival 2021 is now online.
At the heart of the festival are 37 walks hosted by city-loving guides and local residents who will share the stories, beloved experiences and hidden gems of their local neighbourhood. The extensive programme includes urban hikes, guided tours, sensory explorations and opportunities to dance as well as an exciting mix of community-initiated walks and a stimulating programme of talks and films reflecting on walking in the city.
The Urban Walking Festival 2021 is inspired by the annual international festival of free, citizen-led walking conversations Jane’s Walks which celebrate writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs. Jane’s Walks happen across the globe and encourage people to share stories about their neighbourhoods, discover unseen aspects of their communities and use walking as a way to connect with their neighbours.
This year we’re delighted to include two free open-air screenings of Citizen Jane: Battle for The City in our festival line-up. This fascinating documentary follows Jane Jacob’s fight to save historic New York City from wholesale demolition and redevelopment during the 1960s. Screenings will be held in the city at Aotea Square and in Takapuna at 38 Hurstmere.
We couldn’t hit the streets without Eke Panuku and Auckland Transport whose support and assistance has helped us to grow the Urban Walking Festival 2021 to what it is today, with highlights such as:
Walking In Lockdown.
Five writers, including Russell Brown, Nisha Madhan, Karlo Mila, Zech Soakai and Kennedy Warne, tell their stories of walking in a time of COVID-19.
Henderson Night Hikoi.
Discover the night ecology of Henderson by exploring the hidden bush spots and trails around the Opanuku stream and Waikumete streams as the night falls over the town centre.
The Takapuna Poetry Walk and Citizen Jane: Battle for the City.
A poetry walk from Takapuna Beach to 38 Hurstmere, followed by an outdoor screening of the documentary Citizen Jane: Battle for the City.
Silent Disco City Walks.
Two new routes from the award-winning Silent Disco Citywalk, offering an energetic, multi-sensory outdoor experience and a new perspective on Ponsonby and Grey Lynn.
From Moses to Merge.
An urban hīkoi led by people who have lived experience of sleeping rough through the Karangahape Road precinct
Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Emma Barnes reads from I Am in Bed with You
Emma Barnes reads four poems from I Am in Bed with You, Auckland University Press, 2021
‘Maiden Mother Crone’
‘Ohio’
‘Low boughs’
‘Completely dry riverbed’
Emma Barnes lives and writes in Pōneke / Wellington. They have just released their first book I Am In Bed With You. For the last two years they’ve been working with Chris Tse on an anthology of LGBTQIA+ and Takatāpui writing to be released this year by Auckland University Press. They work in Tech and spend a lot of time picking heavy things up and putting them back down again.
Auckland University Press page
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Partricia Grace to judge 2021 Sargeson Prize
The 2021 Sargeson Prize launches today, on Thursday April 1.
The Sargeson Prize is New Zealand’s richest short story prize, supporting our country’s creative writing talent – including the younger generation. Now in its third year, the competition is named for celebrated New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson, and is sponsored by the University of Waikato. It was established by Catherine Chidgey, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato, in 2019.
Acclaimed New Zealand writer Patricia Grace is the chief judge in this year’s Sargeson Prize.
“We are enormously lucky to have her as a judge, and she brings such mana to the competition,” says Chidgey. “She’s put New Zealand literature on the map internationally, and she’s hugely respected. Her stories are well-known and loved.”
For more information on the Sargeson Prize, see the attached media release or visit the University of Waikato website here.
This year, winning stories in both the Open and Secondary Schools category will be published online on ReadingRoom, the literary arm of Newsroom.
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Tonight Food Court / Enjoy Poetry Reading
At Enjoy Contemporary Art Space 211 Left bank, Cuba Street
Join a selection of readers invited by Food Court Books and Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, writing around the edges of queerness and culture, intimacy and (literary) history.
Readers for the night include
Chris Tse
Sam Duckor-Jones
Khadro Mohamed
Dani Yourukova
Hannah Mettner
Joanna Cho
Areez Katki
With more to be announced.
This event is programmed alongside Areez Katki’s exhibition History reserves but a few lines for you, on until 3 April.
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Going West podcast – Paula Green in conversation with Bill Manhire and Norman Meehan
This is one of my favourite sessions I have chaired ever!
Paula Green, poet, anthologist, reviewer and children’s author, with her newly minted honours and awards, shares the stage in a charming conversation with poet, short story writer and academic Bill Manhire, and jazz composer and performer Norman Meehan, as they disclose the alchemy of setting poetic text as song. They discuss their latest collaboration, the riddle project, Tell Me My Name, and along the way Bill Manhire reads two of his poems Frolic and I am quiet when I call.
This session took place the day after Manhire, Meehan and friends delivered a captivating opening night performance, Small Holes in the Silence for the Going West audience.
Listen here
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: CubaDupa Interactive Karaoke Participatory Poetry 27 / 28 March
Interactive Karaoke Participatory Poetry
Book a spot on our glittering Leftbank stage this CubaDupa, where you’ll get to choose from a selection of high-rotation poems to perform to a rapt audience of friends, strangers and the occasional pigeon. Feeling emo? Seducing a crush? Or do you just love…. words? HIT ME BABY ONE MORE RHYME: POETRY KARAOKE is a sequinned love letter to two of our favourite art forms. Presented by Satellites and curated by Chris Tse, this experience features chart-toppers like Mohamed Hassan, Tayi Tibble, and William Shakespeare — and brought to life by a rotating cast of hosts and pop-up performers including Rose Lu, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Brannavan Gnanalingam, Rebecca Hawkes and Eamonn Mara.
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