PN Review relaunches in September – a letter from Michael Schmidt

 

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Michael Schmidt is inviting New Zealand poetry fans to subscribe (with a special rate for students) to PN Review as it relaunches in September.

 

From Karl Stead: ‘PN Review is giving itself a new look and hoping for new subscribers.  It comes out five times a year, big page format, very well produced and edited by Michael Schmidt of Carcanet Press  It is the one international literary magazine that has paid serious and consistent attention to New Zealand poets and poetry.

 

From Michael Schmidt:

We have always been close to New Zealand poetry – Allen Curnow, Bill Manhire, Karl Stead, Greg O’Brien and John Dennison have been among the formative Antipodean figures in the magazine’s long history.

We regard this relaunch as a new beginning. The magazine, now forty-three years old, remains true to its origins but it is radically refreshed, continuing its editorial voyage of discovery and keeping up the critical conversations.

We are active on social media, and if you are interested you can explore our website, Facebook and twitter presences.

Subscribers receive six print and digital issues a year, access to the celebrated digital archive, and you will be invited to our public events around the country throughout the year. Current subscribers are free to submit work to us digitally.

I hope we can welcome you during September.

All best

Michael

 

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Pat White’s new poetry book will raise money for a Creative Writing Award for senior students at Mackenzie College

 

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To be launched on 28th August, National Poetry Day, 2015 at Mackenzie  College & Community Library, Fairlie, by Jillian Sullivan. Fellow poets Michael Harlow and Sue Wootton will attend the launch and read.

Frontiers Press is pleased to announce the publication of Fracking & Hawk, poetry by Pat  White.

These poems, writes John Horrocks, ‘draw on a lifetime of immersion in the natural world and its rhythms’, and follow on from Planting the Olives (Frontiers, 2004). In Fracking & Hawk, the poet has added a strong sense of disquiet to his well-known observation of rural life and nature. This ‘deep engagement’ is described by Sue Wootton as being, ‘beautifully crafted, intelligent, and full of heart’.

The proceeds from sales of the book will be going towards setting up a Creative Writing Award for senior students at Mackenzie College.

Compounds & Collisions at Q Theatre mixes it up in a creative sampler

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We’re showcasing the hidden treasures of Auckland’s creative scene with a curated sampler of artistic delights.

This instalment features poems by Jess Holly Bates and Tourettes, a performance by 2015 Billy T winner Hamish Parkinson, readings by novelist Sue Orr and playwright Josephine Stewart-Tewhiu and Tui-award-winning music by Great North’s Hayden Donnell.

Tickets are $15 and available from Q Theatre. All proceeds go towards paying our wonderful writers.

Compounds and Collisions is part of a trilogy of writerly events. See the others here.