Making the most of Mondays
The Marae, Level 4, Te Papa Tongarewa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington
Laureates fiirst up in the International Institute of Modern Letters series on:
26 July - Best New Zealand Poems 09 - a curtain-raiser for Poetry Day, Jenny Bornholdt (Laureate) introduces writers whose poems appear in the 2009 edition of Best New Zealand Poems (edited by Scottish Poetry Library director Robyn Marsack), included amongst the readers is Ian Wedde (Laureate).
23 AUGUST Miss New Zealand: Jenny Bornholdt
When Jenny Bornholdt's The Rocky Shore won the 2009 Montana Book Award for Poetry, judge Mark Williams remarked that it 'disobeys the rules that poetry should be compressed rather than sprawling, that it should avoid the personal, that it should eschew 'unpoetic' elements, that it should not include digressions or speculations about imponderables.' Victoria University's 2010 Writer in Residence reads new work and discusses the imponderables with Kate De Goldi.
THURSDAY 23 SEPTEMBER Buddhist Rain - 7pm, Soundings Theatre
A special event to launch a new CD setting Bill Manhire's poems to jazz. Norman Meehan, Colin Hemmingsen and Hannah Griffin provide the melodies, and Bill Manhire reads the lyrics.
