National Poerty Day 2010

National Poerty day takes place with events throughout New Zealand on (and before) 30 July.  Laureates Jenny Bornholdt, Bill Manhire and Ian Wedde take part:

Poetry Reading with Jenny Bornholdt
Wednesday 28th July 2010
We are privileged to have Jenny Bornholdt visit us as part of our Poetry Day celebrations. One of New Zealand's first five Poets Laureate, Jenny Bornholdt is a well-regarded poet and anthologist. This visit to Upper Hutt is long overdue!

Hamilton Poster Launch
Friday 30th July 2010
In association with Phantom Posters, celebrities will read poems from the poetry poster campaign by Phantom Posters and then plaster those posters around the central city. Poets whose work appears on the posters include Bill Manhire, Cilla McQueen, Brian Turner, Tusiata Avia and Stephen Oliver. Also keep an eye on the Waikato Times in the week leading up to poetry day for stories on local Waikato poets.

Best New Zealand Poems 09
Monday 26th July
As a curtain-raiser for Poetry Day, the International Institute of Modern Letters presents readings by writers whose poems appear in the 2009 edition of Best New Zealand Poems www.vuw.ac.nz/bestnzpoems (edited by Scottish Poetry Library director Robyn Marsack), including Geoff Cochrane, Lynn Davidson, Lynn Jenner, Gregory O'Brien, Chris Price, Marty Smith, Tim Upperton, Louise Wallace, Ian Wedde and Ashleigh Young. Jenny Bornholdt introduces them.
This event is part of Victoria University's Writers on Mondays http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/about/events/writers-mondays.aspx series. Entry is free, all welcome.

See the full list of events at the National Poerty Day Website.