Poetry Aotearoa

14/10/2024

Another great selection of Aotearoa Poetry & Writing (including yours truly) from editors Lincoln Jaques and Mark Ulyseas:
https://issuu.com/liveencounters/docs/le_p_w_aotearoa_vol_3_nov-dec_2024issuu?fr=sMDVmMjc4MzcxMTQ

12/09/2024

Janet Charman has invited me and four other writers to read at the 6X10 Poetry Event in Avondale in a fortnight's time, on Saturday 28th. Here are the details:

Unpacking Copies of Haunts (27/6/24) [photograph: Bronwyn Lloyd The official publication date for my new collection of short stories,...

20/08/2024

A fine event to celebrate Poetry Day this Friday (23/8) at the East Coast Bays Library in Browns Bay:

30/04/2024

‘A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.’ Coco Chanel Because you grow up in your mother’s salon, where every mirror holds a story, wet-haired. To a child, it is a temple. Smalltown temple, with a boxed-in glass front and a concrete ramp to a flimsy swing door. When another cust...

09/04/2024

We always love our annual drive down the motorway to Poppies bookshop in Hamilton for the launch of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook. Here’s the editor, Dr Tracey Slaughter, at left, with the featured poem of volume 58, Carin Smeaton. Hamilton’s powerful poetry scene was in evidence during the fantastic readings. A great night!

12/03/2024

I've just received my contributor's copy of Poetry Aotearoa 2024 in the post. Kudos to Tracey Slaughter for her excellent job in wrangling so fascinating a set of poems into print! The volume is appropriately subtitled 'revelations', and I defy anyone who reads through (or in) it to see it as mainstream or safe. Certainly it's very much to my taste.

The launch of the issue will be livestreamed next Wednesday on youtube:

Join us live for the book launch of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 edited by Tracey Slaughter.Wednesday 20 March 2023, 5.30pm.More on the book: https://www.ma...

12/03/2024

Copies of the latest issue of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024: Revelations are now being sent out to contributors. For more on the magazine, please go here:

For the 2024 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her selection of 123 new poems from an exhaustive submission process.

09/12/2023

Warmest congratulations to the truly awe-inspiring Tracey Slaughter for winning the poetry prize in the 2023 Manchester Writing Competition!

Tracey Slaughter and April Yee have won the 2023 Manchester Writing Competition, the UK’s biggest awards for unpublished writing. Poet Slaughter took home the Manchester Poetry Prize, and Yee was awarded the Manchester Fiction Prize at a gala awards ceremony on Friday evening (December 8). Each wi...

13/09/2023

Love, Peace & Protest - The PumpHouse Theatre
As part of Auckland heritage Festival an event to hear new original and old traditional poems about Love, Peace, Protest performed. Poems will have been submitted previously – some will be chosen to be read all poems sent in will be displayed. ⏰ Run Time: 90min, no interval 💡 This event is in...
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💕☮✊🏽 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT ✊🏽☮💕
Love, Peace & Protest
Sun, Oct 1 - 3:00pm
As part of the Auckland Heritage Festival, come and immerse yourself in an event to hear new original and old traditional poems about Love, Peace, Protest performed.
🎟 Entry by koha: pumphouse.co.nz/love-peace-protest/
📝 To submit a poem, contact [email protected]

An afternoon of old, new, traditional, and original poetry celebrating the themes of Love, Peace, and Protest. We are asking our community to bring along a poem to share in a relaxed atmosphere in our Coal Bunker Studio. A collaboration between The PumpHouse Theatre and its community of all ages and...

08/05/2023

Great review of the latest issue here from the inimitable and invaluable Paula Green:

Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023, ed Tracey SlaughterMassey University Press Every day I point at something and ask how longhas that been there and you always say forever. Jane Arthur from ‘The …

02/05/2023

Award-winning poet and University of Waikato senior lecturer Dr Tracey Slaughter has spent the last nine months reviewing more than 1000 poems for this year’s Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023: After-burn. WTS producer Gary Farrow visited her at the university to hear about the annual anthology. Telli...

09/03/2023

07/03/2023

Award-winning poet and University of Waikato senior lecturer Dr Tracey Slaughter has spent the last nine months reviewing more than 1000 poems for this year’s Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023: After-burn.

21/10/2022

Miss Leading's poetry show Another Universe is at Basement Theatre in Auckland Tues 25 to Sat 29 October at 6.30pm. This is a poetry show that tells the stories that could have happened had we made different choices. And with that, our identity and experiences. It is a unique format where the script is entirely poetry.
There is a discounted night on Wednesday and there are also tickets each night for those that want to come but, for whatever reason, can't financially. Just order your ticket from https://basementtheatre.co.nz/whats-on/another-universe
choose 'no lack of fun for lack of funds' and use the code 'ArtsAccess'. No questions asked
Nadia Freeman

Basement Theatre

10/08/2022

If you're looking for fun activities for Poetry Day, and are based north of the Bombay Hills, why not try Orewa Beach on Saturday 27th August?
https://poetryonthebeach2022.wordpress.com/

Writing poems in the sand

10/08/2022

As a prelude to Poetry Day this year, why not come and hear some North Shore Readers in Devonport Library on Tuesday 23rd August?

The Devonport Library Associates present Jack Ross with Johanna Emeney, Elizabeth Morton, Lisa Samuels and Bryan Walpert.

04/04/2022