POETRY DAY IN DUNEDIN

POETRY DAY: Friday 22 July 2011

Enjoy a glass of wine and light refreshments as poetry is brought to life by some of our best-loved and upcoming poets.

            Dunedin City Library Reading 7.00 - 9.00pm, Dunningham Suite 4^th Floor

The doors will open at 7.00pm and the readings will start at 7.30pm. The readers are:

FIONA FARRELL’s first novel, The Skinny Louie Book won the 1993 New Zealand Book Award for fiction. Other novels have been shortlisted for  the Montana New Zealand Book Award and nominated for the International Dublin IMPAC Award. She has held residencies in France (the 1995 Katherine Mansfield Fellowship to Menton)  and Ireland (the 2006 Rathcoola Residency). In 2007 Fiona Farrell received the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction. She is the Robert Burns Fellow 2011.

JOANNA PRESTON is a Tasmanaut poet, editor, and freelance creative writing teacher, whose first collection, The Summer King, won both the inaugural Kathleen Grattan Award for poetry, and the 2010 Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize. She co-edits the New Zealand literary journal Kokako with Patricia Prime, and is this year's judge for the NZPS International Haiku Competition. She spends her non-writing time tending to her garden, talking to her chooks, and practicing the drop-cover-hold maneuver.

  

RICHARD REEVE is the author of four books of poetry, Dialectic of Mud (AUP 2001), The Life and the Dark (AUP 2004), In Continents (AUP 2008) and The Among (Maungatua Press 2008). A new book, Generation Kitchen, is forthcoming. Reeve was the founding editor of Glottis: New Writing, and is a past editor of Landfall. He has work in Best New Zealand Poems 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2008, and has been a recipient of a number of awards and grants, including the 2002 Todd Foundation Writer's Bursary and a 2007 Creative New Zealand New Work Grant. Reeve holds a Ph.D. from Otago in the Humanities, and is currently completing a Law degree.

MICHAEL STEVEN is the author of two chapbooks, as well as the collections Bartering Lines and Daybook Fragments, published by Kilmog Press. His poems and translations have appeared in brief, Poetry New Zealand, Landfall, Otoliths (Aus), Percutio, as well as various on-line journals. He is currently working on a new manuscript, The Black Fresco.

RHIAN GALLAGHER’s first collection, Salt Water Creek, was published by Enitharmon Press in 2003 (London) and was short-listed for the Forward Prize for First Collection. Gallagher returned to New Zealand in 2005, having lived in London for eighteen years. She received a Canterbury Community Historian award in 2007. Feeling for Daylight: the Photographs of Jack Adamson was published by the South Canterbury Museum 2010. In 2008 Gallagher received the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award in 2008. Auckland University Press is publishing her second collection of poetry, Shift, in 2011.

  

For more information contact David Howard, Dunedin Co-ordinator for NZ Society of Authors Otago - 027 482 1002