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Poetry Shelf 2019
Poetry Shelf 2019 will resume poetry coverage in the next week or so with new features and old.
I will flag the arrival of all new NZ poetry books that are sent to me and review/interview some. Publishers or poets can send books to PO Box 95078 Swanson Waitakere 0653
I will also host a Poetry Shelf NOTICEBOARD – poetry events and poetry news. Send copy to paulajoygreen@gmail.com
I am continuing the Monday Poem slot but I do not accept unsolicited poems at the moment.
On Tuesdays I will pay attention to New Books. And throughout the week!
On Wednesdays I am introducing Poetry Classics where poets and poetry fans get to share NZ poems or poetry books they have loved.
Poetry Audio spot continues on Thursdays.
On Fridays I am hosting Poetry Talk where a poet or poetry fan gets to talk about something that sparks them in the gloriously wide wide fields of poetry.
The blog will continue to have a NZ/Aotearoa focus but will also celebrate international poetry.
Dream pile: to post poetry videos! Let me know if you can do this!
ha p p y p o e t r y d a y s
Paula Green
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Long Distance Phone Calls
Campfire stories in colossal scale. Intimacy against grand backdrops. Poetry connects us through time, history, scale and location.
Get up close and far with Auckland’s best writers and performers in the one night only show Long Distance Phone Calls. Programmed by Vanessa Crofskey and MC’d by Grace Taylor (Full Broken Bloom, Afakasi Speaks), this unique evening features talent such as Manu Vaea (FAFSWAG), Kyla Dela Cruz (Mouth:Tongue:Teeth), Stevie Davis-Tana (South Auckland Poet’s Collective), Phodiso Dintwe (Rising Voices), the girls of Ngā Hinepūkōrero (Word – The Frontline Interschool Slam Champions 2018) and renowned performance poet Carrie Rudzinski exploring belonging and connection.
Wellington: Fleur Adcock book launch
Victoria University Press warmly invites you to the launch of
Collected Poems
by Fleur Adcock
on Wednesday 13 February, 6pm–7.30pm
at Unity Books, 57 Willis St, Wellington.
Fleur will be there to read from and sign copies of the book.
Fleur Adcock’s Collected Poems is a landmark publication in the career of one of New Zealand’s most significant writers. Published in hardback with ribbon, 558pp. $50
More info here
Warm congratulations to poets on Ockham NZ Book Awards poetry long list
Some of my favourite books from 2019 are here and some of my favourites are not – and that is the way of book awards.
Poetry Award
Edgeland and other Poems by David Eggleton (Otago University Press)
The Farewell Tourist by Alison Glenny (Otago University Press)
Are Friends Electric? by Helen Heath (Victoria University Press)
All of Us by Adrienne Jansen and Carina Gallegos (Landing Press)
There’s No Place Like the Internet in Springtime by Erik Kennedy (Victoria University Press)
The Facts by Therese Lloyd (Victoria University Press)
Winter Eyes by Harry Ricketts (Victoria University Press)
Walking to Jutland Street by Michael Steven (Otago University Press)
Poūkahangatus by Tayi Tibble (Victoria University Press)
Aspiring Daybook: The Diary of Elsie Winslow by Annabel Wilson (Mākaro Press)
The Poetry Award: Bryan Walpert, Airini Beautrais and Karlo Mila.
2019 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize call for submissions
SARAH BROOM POETRY PRIZE
The Sarah Broom Poetry Prize is one of New Zealand’s most valuable poetry prizes and aims to recognise and financially support new work from an emerging or established New Zealand poet. In 2019, the prize is an award of $10,000. Poets are required to submit six to eight poems (at least five unpublished).
The prize was established in 2013 in honour of the New Zealand poet Sarah Broom (1972-2013), the author of Tigers at Awhitu (2010) and Gleam (2013).
Now in its sixth year, the award will be showcased in a special public session at the Auckland Writers Festival in May 2019 where shortlisted poets will read from their work and the winner will be announced. The full Festival programme will be publicly launched on 13 March and will be available in print and online here
Competition entries open on 21 January and close on 28 February 2019
For entries/queries email poetryprize@sarahbroom.co.nz. For more information about the prize and Sarah Broom visit here
2019 Judge: Anne Michaels
Award-winning poet, novelist and essay writer Anne Michaels is Toronto’s current Poet Laureate. Her multiple awards and shortlistings include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas, the Orange Prize, the Governor-General’s Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her latest poetry collection All We Saw was published in late 2017.
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