Eastbourne: an anthology
is to be launched December 5 2013, 6.30 pm at Rona Gallery, Eastbourne – a
free community event with readings from contributors like Booker-nominated
Lloyd Jones, his son Avi Duckor-Jones, and former Eastbourne mayor Elaine
Jakobsson who writes as Helen Jacobs. Len du Chateau's daughter Robyn will
read his poem about Rona Bay in 1925, and other writers will be stepping up
too.
Eastbourne
is a
fresh collection of writing that has sprung from Wellington’s eastern bays. The
96 contributors in the 300 page book include acclaimed New Zealand writers such
as Denis Glover, Lloyd Jones, Steve Braunias, Kate de Goldi, and Robin Hyde,
young and emerging talent like Sarah Laing and Airini Beautrais, and newcomers
like Avi Duckor-Jones. The editors are Mary McCallum, Anne Manchester and
Maggie Rainey-Smith, and the book is published by new Wellington publisher
Mākaro Press.
The editors say they have been impressed by the depth and
richness of the work they have been offered and the serendipitous discoveries
they have made, but more than anything by the sheer amount of exciting writing
out there.
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