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Winter, 2008Notebook:
Things to do in my absence.
I'm going to be away for most of July and it's shaping up to be a pretty interesting month! Anyway, here are some things I'd check out if I were here in New Zealand:
Film Festival: Florian Habicht's new film Rubbings From a Live Man will be in this year's NZ International Film Festival.
Book Launch: New New Zealand Poets in Performance ed. Jack Ross and Jan Kemp, and Calypso, a new book of poetry from Bob Orr (both AUP) will both be launched on Montana Poetry Day, 18 July at the Auckland Central public library. The MC will be poet laureate Michelle Leggott and there will be readings.
Look for me in: New New Zealand Poets In Performance
Autumn, 2008
Front page:
Metonymy 08
A "new visual/literary arts initiative focussing on forging new creative
connections across disciplines", Metonymy is a collaborative project
in which each artist gets paired with someone working in a different discipline.
Metonymy is invented and organised by Hannah May Thompson, Makyla Curtis,
Christian Jensen and Renee Liang. The selection Panel consists of John Pule,
Evan Woodruffe, CK Stead, Genevieve McClean and Simona Albanese.
The talented Eddie Dawn McCurdy and I have collaborated on a piece which
will be exhibited at Cross Street Studios along with a whole lot of other
interesting collaborations:
Exhibition Opening - Wednesday 14th May 6pm, Cross St Studios, 27 Cross
St, Newton. Exhibition runs 14th - 24th May; Fundraiser on May 10th, $5
Metonymy Fundraiser + Exhibition
Fundraiser, May 10th
at the London Bar, 8pm til late
Samuel Braverman (acoustic)
Craig Humphries (acoustic)
SCRAM (spoken word to music)
The Lastimes (rock)
Only $5 !!!
Exhibition: Cross St Studios, May 14-24 (preview Wed May 14 at 6pm)
For a full list of Metonymy collaborators VISIT THE BLOG
Random things
- Bob Orr's new book of poetry, Calypso, will be released soon
from AUP. (RRP $24.99, July 2008).
-Coming up in May, the Auckland
Writers and Readers festival will include a
session with Karlo Mila, Tusiata Avia and Kapka Kassabova (May 16th).
- the first episode of Matthew Kelly's comic Kiwiman,
"Crossover on Finite Islands" is out now in New Ground
#9. Available from Armageddon and Gotham Comics etc. Or visit his website
to learn all about the strange phenomenon that is... er... Wool
Woman.
- Eulogy (1994)
This site receives a number of visitors each month searching for poems about
death, so I've decided to upload Eulogy,
a poem I wrote in 1994. Until now, the only poem about death available on
this site was Death had a Farm,
and I think it's probably not what these visitors have in mind.
Look for me in: Metonymy!
Summer, 2008
Front page:
KAUPAPA: New Zealand poets, world issues. RRP $25
Editors: Hinemoana Baker & Maria McMillan.
Publisher: Development Resource Centre, Wellington.
"Speaking to the tradition of waiata tawhito, war poetry, redemption
songs and resistance anthems, Kaupapa shows what happens when our poets
take on the world."
45 Poets: Airini Beautrais, Alice Miller, Anne Kennedy,
Apirana Taylor, Aroha Tapara, Basim Farut, Bernard Gadd, Bill Manhire, Bill
Sewell, Brenda Burke, C.K. Stead, Desirée Gezentsvey, Dinah Hawken,
Dora Malech, Emma Neale, Hana O'Regan, Helen Lehndorf, Iain Britton, James
Brown, James Norcliffe, Jan Hutchison, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Jenny Bornholdt,
Joanna Aitchison, Karlo Mila, Kate Camp, Laura Griffiths, Leilani Unasa,
L.E. Scott, Margaret Mitcalfe, Marty Smith, Mary Cresswell, Michele Amas,
Nicola Manning, Olivia Macassey, Richard Reeve, Robert Sullivan, Roma Potiki,
Siobhan Harvey, Tony Beyer, Tracey Tawhiao, Tusiata Avia, Will Christie
For more information or to buy Kaupapa, CLICK HERE
Notebook:
Magazine #5: themed issue on UTU, Justice is having a garden launch on Sun 11, contact Raewyn Alexander for details or invites.
local audio shows to listen out for:
Pounamu (Anna Kaye / jamradio) and Sidestreets (Graham Reid / kiwi.fm); both feature spoken word. While I'm on the subject I have to mention that Matty K over at kfm radio has been known to drop in a few great spoken word tracks... email me if you know of any more! Also recommended: the Basement.
What I'm reading:
Rat Tickling by James Norcliffe, which is getting me through
all the things I'm supposed to be reading.
Look for me in: November:
the forthcoming issue of
Landfall (214); and
in december: KAUPAPA:
New Zealand poets, world issues. Ed. Hinemoana Baker & Maria McMillan.
(Wellington: Development Resource Centre, 2007)