Poets@ONEONESIX Thursday 18 June, 5pm in the backroom
At around 7pm there will be a performance of poetry and dance by Naomi Sioux in the main hall. Its a real treat, please come and support her (koha).
International Writers’ Workshop NZ Inc (IWW) is delighted to announce that renowned New Zealand poet Siobhan Harvey, who lectures at AUT in Auckland, will judge The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems later this year.
Harvey was the winner of the award in 2019 for her sequence of poems titled Ghosts.
The prize of $1000 – which is made possible due to an ongoing bequest from the Jocelyn Grattan Charitable Trust – is for a cycle or sequence of unpublished poems that has a common link or theme. This is the twelfth year IWW has had the honour of organising the Prize.
The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems is sometimes referred to as the ‘Little Grattan’ as the Jocelyn Grattan Charitable Trust also funds the biennial Kathleen Grattan Award, run by Landfall / Otago University Press. Harvey won the Kathleen Grattan Award in 2013.
The competition is free for IWW members to enter. It is very easy for aspiring poets and writers to join IWW to be eligible to enter their poetry in the competition.
Previous winners over the past six years include: Harvey (2019) Heather Bauchop (2018), Janet Newman (2017), Michael Giacon (2016) Maris O’Rourke (2015) and Julie Ryan (2014.)
Harvey said: “I’m honoured to be asked to judge the 2020 IWW Kathleen Grattan Award for a Sequence of Poems. IWW does such important and integral work to foster and support writing talent within Aotearoa, and it’s humbling to think I have the task of judging this significant poetry competition. As a previous winner and runner up of the competition, I know the high standard of submissions I am already looking forward to receiving. In these challenging times, poetry continues to offers us the power of story, song and vision; all of which are needed now as much as ever.”
About the Judge
Siobhan Harvey is an award-winning author of six poetry books.
She is a Lecturer at The Centre for Creative Writing, Auckland University of Technology and has taught creative writing across New Zealand and the UK.
In 2019, Harvey judged the National Flash Fiction Competition and as well as winning the Kathleen Grattan Prize, she won the Robert Burns Poetry prize.
Preparatory Workshop
As well as judging the competition, Harvey will conduct a workshop on Writing Poetry at IWW’s meeting venue, the Lindisfarne Room at St Aidans Church, 97 Onewa Road, Northcote, Auckland on Tuesday June 16. Doors open at 10 am and the workshop runs from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm.
Visitors are welcome to attend the workshop for a $10 visitor fee. Any visitor who attends the workshop and joins IWW by the third Tuesday in July will be eligible to enter The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems and will have the visitor fee deducted from their joining fee.
About the Competition and about IWW
The rules for the competition, details of how to join IWW, meeting times and other activities of the workshop, which meets on the first and third Tuesdays of the month from February to November and runs several competitions a year, are available from the IWW website
Key Dates for The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems in 2020
16 June: Workshop with Siobhan Harvey on writing poetry.
21 July: Last day for new members to join IWW to be eligible to enter this year’s Prize.
6 October: Closing date for entries.
17 November: Announcement of the 2020 winner of The Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems.
Contact
For further information about the Prize or about IWW, or if you would like photographs, please contact IWW President, Duncan Perkinson (email iww-writers@outlook.com) or check out the website
Welcome to 2020 National Flash Fiction Day!
NFFD 2020 ONLINE – all programme events are free – all welcome!
Forthcoming events livestreamed at the Flash Frontier YouTube channel Saturday in NZ/ Friday in other parts of the world — check your time zone and don’t miss it!
Friday, June 12 in NZ / Saturday, June 13 elsewhere
Language and Writing Small: A Roundtable with Journal Editors Around the World (Saturday, June 13, 9am NZ time / GMT + 12)
Featuring:
Sunday, June 13 in NZ / Saturday, June 14
Imagination Unbound: Five Women on the Poetic Narrative Form (Sunday, June 14, 4pm NZ time – GMT +12) – including:
Ella Frears – Shine, Darling (Offord Road Books)
Will Harris – RENDANG (Granta Poetry)
Rachel Long – My Darling from the Lions (Picador)
Nina Mingya Powles – Magnolia 木蘭 (Nine Arches Press)
Martha Sprackland – Citadel (Pavilion Poetry)
Caroline Bird – The Air Year (Carcanet)
Natalie Diaz – Postcolonial Love Poem (Faber & Faber)
Vicki Feaver – I Want! I Want! (Cape Poetry)
David Morley – FURY (Carcanet)
Pascale Petit – Tiger Girl (Bloodaxe Books)
Forward Prizes for Poetry Website
Adrienne Jansen reads ‘Bread’ from All of Us, poems which tell small stories of migration, co-written with carina gallegos. Published by Landing Press, 2018, and longlisted for the Okham NZ Book Awards 2019. Adrienne is a Wellington writer who writes poetry as well as fiction and non-fiction. She’s also involved with Landing Press, which publishes poetry that many people can enjoy.
Tēnā koutou poets, friends and whānau of poets, teachers, organisers, and great poetry people
Here is Landing Press’s exciting new project: an anthology of poems about cleaners and cleaning.
If you are working as a cleaner, or have ever worked as a cleaner, write a poem which catches that experience in some way. Send it to us. These poems are our first choice.
If you haven’t worked as a cleaner, but have a poem about cleaning or cleaners, send it to us. These poems will also be considered.
We want poems by/about cleaners in offices, hospitals, churches, rest homes, marae, on boats, in factories, on the streets, at beaches and rivers. Cleaners are everywhere, and we are interested in everywhere.
Please send us up to 3 poems. Maximum length 40 lines. On the same page as the poem include your name, email address and a very brief note about your experience as a cleaner. Or there might be another small story behind your poem you want to briefly include.
Send your poems to landingpresscleaners@gmail.com by Monday 27 July.
And please forward this information to anyone who might be interested.
This anthology will be published in late 2020 or early 2021. We had hoped to pay all writers, but the Covid 19 situation has affected fundraising for this book. If we can pay, we will, but we can’t promise. All included writers will get a complimentary copy of the anthology.
Landing Press is a small Wellington publisher of poems that many people can enjoy.
Hei kona i roto i ngā tūmanako
The Landing Press team
my heart is in my mouth
my mama didn’t prepare me for this, but her illness did
a forced pause for the heartburn of a worlds over consumption
isolation, a foreign concept for villages of homes
with more bellies than the home-belly can house
but indeed the sky has stopped bleeding, is now naked and breathing
standing outside under nights blanket I try to sink my breath in tune with it
the mouths of the monsters to our own making are now unveiled, are you listening?
my heart is in my mouth
baited
&
breathing
Grace Iwashita-Taylor
Grace Iwashita-Taylor, breathing bloodlines of Samoa, England and Japan. An artist of upu/words led her to the world of performing arts. Dedicated to carving, elevating and holding spaces for storytellers of Te Moana nui a Kiwa. Recipient of the CNZ Emerging Pacific Artist 2014 and the Auckland Mayoral Writers Grant 2016. Highlights include holding the visiting international writer in residence at the University of Hawaii 2018, Co-Founder of the first youth poetry slam in Aoteroa, Rising Voices (2011 – 2016) and the South Auckland Poets Collective and published collections Afakasi Speaks (2013) & Full Broken Bloom (2017) with ala press. Writer of MY OWN DARLING commissioned by Auckland Theatre Company (2015, 2017, 2019) and Curator of UPU (Auckland Arts Festival 2020).
Between Shingle Creek and Fruitlands
Cast your mind back to the first time you came this way,
the road windy, corrugated, dusty,
the surface mostly the colour of yellow clay, cuttings
stained with the leer of water seeping.
On the left the ever-ascending slopes,
the Old Man Range, white flecks
in blue gullies near the summit,
and your young old man wondering when
we’d ever get to Alexandra, your mum complaining
about ‘the blessed dust’, both of them
cursing the ‘wash-board surface’ and you thinking
about the number of times she told your father
that ‘it didn’t matter’ when it clearly did. And that
was the way it always was with them,
it is with you, it is, period. Until, you might say,
something happens that’s never happened before.
Like love came back and sent hate packing
never to return, and peace of mind arrived
like a dove from afar, decided to stay, and you
no longer dreamed of what might have been.
Brian Turner
Brian Turner was born in Dunedin in 1944. His debut collection Ladders of Rain (1978) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. He has published a number of collections including Just This which won the NZ Post Book Award for Poetry in 2010. He has received the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry (2009) and was NZ Poet Laureate (2003-5). He lives in Central Otago.
In April 2019 Victoria University Press published Brian’s Selected Poems, a hardback treasury of poetry that gains life from southern skies and soil, and so much more. When I am longing to retreat to the beauty of the south, I find refuge in one of Brian’s poems. The economy on the line, the exquisite images, the braided rhythms. Read a poem and your feet are in the current of a gleaming river, your eyes fixed on a purple gold horizon line. His poetry presents his beloved home in shifting lights, but the range of his work offers so much more.
Brian became an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to poetry and literature in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours. He was to be the honoured writer at the Auckland Writers Festival year – he would have been on stage with John Campbell so am very sad to miss this event.
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