Celebrate National Poetry Day 2016 with Seraph Press Poets & Friends at Vic Books
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Friday, August 26 at 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Vic Books 1 Kelburn Parade
Come and celebrate National Poetry Day 2016 with Seraph Press Poets & Friends, hosted by Vic Books.
Seraph Press has invited some of their authors, mainly from out-of-town, to join with some of their friends from Victoria University to share their poetry at Vic Books on National Poetry Day 2016.
Sit back with your morning tea from the Vic Books café and spend an hour listening to nine fabulous poets. Featuring Seraph Press poets Paula Green, Helen Lehndorf, Johanna Aitchison, Vana Manasiadis and Anahera Gildea, with friends Amy Leigh Wickes (PhD student), Liang Yujing (PhD student), Marco Sonzogni (programme director of the Italian Programme) and Anne Kennedy (2016 Writer in Residence).
Courtney Sina Meredith launches Tail of the Taniwha
Tail of the Taniwha Launch
Tuesday, August 2 at 6 PM
The Golden Dawn – Tavern of Power in Auckland, Cnr Richmond & Ponsonby Road
Join us for the launch of Courtney’s new book of short stories, Tail of the Taniwha, love to see you there! Book to be officially launched by award-winning novelist, short story writer and essayist Paula Morris ♥
“Fabulously sassy, Meredith turns her poetic lens to short fiction, capturing her journey from urbanesia to metropolitan Europe. Tail of the Taniwha is her smashing debut collection.” –Robert Sullivan
“This is fine work. There is a lot of energy in the prose and on the strength of the observations and insights along the way we trust the voice.” –Lloyd Jones
Poetry at Dog with Two Tails
New Voices competition – still time to enter
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Deleted Scenes for Lovers
Tracey Slaughter
Victoria University Press, $30
Tracey Slaughter’s daring short fiction deposits you on a rollercoaster, hoists you in the air, puts you in a dank, dark cupboard to eavesdrop, spins you round and round, makes you feel things to the nth degree.
Her short fiction has won awards, attracted widespread admiration in journals for years; Deleted Scenes for Lovers is her second collection.
photo by Catherine Chidgey
She teaches creative writing at the University of Waikato. If the quality and originality of writing is a yardstick for the quality and originality of a creative writing teacher, then students should flock to Slaughter’s courses. This book is something special.
for the rest of my review in SST see here
Happy Birthday Sam Hunt
Radio NZ has produced a small video of Sam Hunt reading a few poems from his new collection, Salt River Songs. It is a perfect snap shot of Sam at home in the Kaipara, and of the lyrical joy of his poetry. Altogether mesmerising.
h a p p y b i r t h d a y S a m Hunt, you are our poetry icon extraordinaire, and poetry in New Zealand would not be the same without you. We grew up with Sam-Hunt poems sizzling and simmering in our blood.
T h a n k y o u !
Launch of Extraordinary Anywhere
Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand
I heard a taste of this at the Ruapehu Writers Festival and was hooked.
Victoria University Press warmly invite you to the launch of
Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on place from Aotearoa New Zealand
edited by Ingrid Horrocks and Cherie Lacey
on Tuesday 26 July, 6.00pm–7.30pm
at Unity Books, 57 Willis St, Wellington.
The launch will include short readings by essayists Tim Corballis, Lynn Jenner, Tina Makereti, Harry Ricketts and Lydia Wevers.
With thanks to the School of English and Media Studies, Massey University, for helping to support this launch.
Sarah Jane Barnett interviews Paula Green
Sarah Jane Barnett recently interviewed me about my new collection, New York Pocket Book. The shoe was on the foot, for a change! I really enjoyed the questions. Took me right back to New York!
For the complete interview go here.
SJB: The poems in New York Pocket Book touch on the idea that the experience of being a tourist can give us a new way to see and experience ourselves. The collection’s main character, Josephine, closely observes her new experiences – the ‘American accent dipping and pausing,’ the ‘Manhattan sky.’ The idea works on two levels, with Josephine experiencing New York and with the reader experiencing Josephine. Can you speak to this idea in terms of your poetry? Do you see the poem as a way to provide a reader with a new experience of themselves?
PG: Perhaps any book refreshes our view of ourselves to varying degrees, but I really like the multiple reading experiences you have spotted. Learning another language for years, I always felt I wore my clothes slightly differently, that I had licence to be a slightly different person. I get that feeling when I stay in foreign cities. I am both myself and not myself. I eat things I might not normally eat. My daily routine goes out the window. So is it a stretch to say the reader in entering a book that is anchored in an iconic place, triggers different relations with the world and self? I don’t know but it’s a fascinating idea. One of the upshots of learning another language, is the way you learn more about your own language. Conversely, when someone speaks a foreign language they always leave clues about their mother tongue. When we experience a new city, we open windows on the familiar as much as we do the unfamiliar. So perhaps the poem is the surrogate new city, the surrogate new language.
Josephine is somewhat elusive. You are right in that you view her through a New York filter (and vice versa) and everything else lands in accidental traces. Some readers might crave more of her backstory but I resisted that. There are some red-hot traces though hiding away. This is a pocket book after all.
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