Since June
Louise Wallace
VUP $25

Photos below taken by Rory Mearns at Unity Wellington and VUP's launch last Thursday of Since June by Louise Wallace.

Jenny Bornholdt spoke first and gave great praise and support for this new Wellington writer. It was a very convivial evening with a lot of family and friends gathered to celebrate.

Louise is Gisborne born and now lives in Wellington, graduating from The Institute of Modern Letters and winning the Biggs Prize for Poetry in 2008. She has had poems previously published in journals including Meanjin, Sport, Turbine and Snorkel.

Pic left, Louise Wallace with Bill Manhire.
Pics below, Louise Wallace reading, and Jenny Bornholdt launching.

'Louise Wallace can start a poem in the “real” world, then take it off to somewhere else entirely. She’s not afraid of “odd” and she has this great weird syntax which can really disrupt a poem and change all that’s gone before. These are marvellous poems.'
- Jenny Bornholdt.