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Poetry books I have enjoyed in the past year 2/2
Therese Lloyd Other Animals Victoria University Press, 2013 Therese Lloyd’s debut collection, Other Animals, invites you into little moments, anecdotes and scenes, from which you surf the poetic...
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August On the Shelf: Poetry picks from Emily Dobson, Siobhan Harvey, Harry...
Siobhan Harvey: Conversations by Owl-Light, Alexandra Fraser, Steele Roberts, July 2014 Conversations by Owl-Light is the first collection by Auckland author, Alexandra Fraser who is one of the finest...
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Poetry Shelf interviews Harry Ricketts — All I can remember about his poem is...
Harry Ricketts has written over twenty-five books, and while poetry is a primary love, he also writes in other genres. These include literary biography (The Unforgiving Minute and Strange...
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Harry Ricketts’s Half Dark — These poems are like little retrievals from the...
Harry Ricketts, Half Dark Victoria University Press, 2015 The title of Harry Ricketts’s new poetry collection, Half Dark, is apt as many of these poems are like little retrievals from the...
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Some photos and thoughts on The Lauris Edmond Memorial Poetry Award
This award was launched by the Canterbury Poets’ Collective and The NZ Poetry Society in 2003. Five poets read in a festival slot and one poet gets the award. Originally the event was staged during the...
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Why I loved the Ruapehu Writers Festival
‘Memoir is a place to illuminate, not seek revenge.’ Elizabeth Knox ‘The Villa is a book of 100 tiny pieces. That’s how my brain was. Everything had fallen to pieces. I was writing in a state of...
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Reading Sport 44 on a wet Sunday keeps the blues away
The new edition of Sport includes 8 essays along with the usual spread of poetry and fiction. At the start of the book is an impressive advertisement for Victoria University Press’s forthcoming...
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My two poetry readings to launch my new book feature some of my favourite poets
Like so many poets, I loathe people making speeches about me or my work. Much better to stage a poetry reading and celebrate the pull of cities. My new poetry collection comes out of ten exceptional...
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Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand – a...
‘To investigate something properly we need all three: archives, dreams, memories …” Martin Edmond Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand (VUP, 2016), edited by Ingrid...
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Poetry Shelf’s Annual-Books-We-Loved-in -2016 Lists
‘So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange or stupid things...
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2 excellent poetry interviews @RNZ: Kim and Harry, Jesse and Jane
Good to see poetry getting attention on Radio NZ. These two interviews, both warm and scintillating, are really worth listening to, especially on a cold rainy Sunday. Jesse Mulligan and Jane...
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Poetry Shelf Interview: Paula Green in conversation with Harry Ricketts
Photo credit: Robert Cross Harry Ricketts teaches English literature and creative writing at Victoria University. His thirty plus books include poetry, literary biographies and essays. His...
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Writers on Mondays at Te Papa: 4 poetry highlights
Mon 16 Jul – Mon 1 Oct 2018, 12.15pm–1.15pm Poetry is at Te Marae, Level 4, Te Papa Cost Free event, every Monday lunchtime Full programme here Winter Eyes: Harry Ricketts July 30,...
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Poetry Shelf audio spot: Harry Rickett’s “Napier, Christmas 2017”
https://nzpoetryshelf.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/voice-008.m4a Harry Ricketts teaches English Literature and creative non-fiction at Victoria University of Wellington. He has published over...
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Poetry Shelf New Poetry: Landfall 236 is a beauty
We have a wealth of literary journals (online and hard copy) at the moment that draw upon diverse communities and regions and that underline the fact poetry is currently piping hot in...
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Ginny’s Garden (for Ginny Sullivan, 1950-2017) Magpies quardle-oodle in the high firs. Down here, under the overhang, it’s hot, looking out over the lawn Karen says she cut two weeks ago, and...
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Poetry Shelf Poem Festival: Furniture
Each month I gather and invite poems on a particular theme. End of February I was musing on the idea of furniture. On Tuesday night (March 24th) I woke at 12.30 am and was awake until dawn. At one...
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For Lauris 2 You had a gift for friendship. When someone rang, you’d say, “Ah, Liz” or “Ah, Murray” with a special flicker on their name, as if the call had made your day. Your first collection came...
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