Thursday, March 14, 2013

News from IIML



Why New Zealand Poetry?
US literary journal Shenandoah's New Zealand feature is now online, with poems from recent MA graduates Rob Hack, Natasha Dennerstein and Sugar Magnolia Wilson, as well as work by James Brown, Hinemoana Baker, Chris Price and Harry Ricketts among others.

 Visiting
Hot on the heels of Canadian poet Karen Solie's recent visit, brilliant US poet and essayist Mary Ruefle is coming to Wellington next month. She will appear at the City Gallery on 15 April. Check out Ruefle's erasure works.

The Rocky Outcrop Tour is underway and also blogging. Pip Adam, Kirsten McDougall and Ashleigh Young take to the provinces! A jolly good night out in Masterton apparently.

 The Expanding Bookshelf
MA graduate Therese Lloyd launched her first book at Unity Books, Wellington, last week. Therese's former high school teacher Bernadette Hall gave a stirring speech. Therese has also contributed a piece to our blog.
MA graduate Pip Desmond's second book is out now: The War That Never Ended: New Zealand Veterans Remember Korea.

 Felicitations!
PhD graduate Maxine Alterio has a French publisher for her bestselling novel Lives We Leave Behind. The book will come out in France in June.
MA graduate Aorewa McLeod has been getting great reviews for her first book Who Was That Woman Anyway?  The book was on the #1 bestseller list for NZ Fiction last week.
PhD student and poet Steven Toussaint has won the 2012 Winter Anthology Contest.
PhD student Hannah McKie is on the shortlist for the Adam NZ Play Award.
Gecko Press has been nominated for the Bologna Children's Publisher of the Year Prize.
Publishers Weekly really like Carl Shuker's new novel. The book is launched at the IIML this Friday at 6pm.

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