Come and hear poets Mary Macpherson and Vivienne Plumb

Wellington Branch

New Zealand Society of Authors

Monday 29^th October   7.30pm

Come and hear Mary Macpherson and Vivienne Plumb.

Vivienne Plumb (right) currently holds the 2012 Randell Cottage writing residency in Wellington . She writes poetry, fiction and drama and has held a University of Iowa writing residency in U.S.A. and the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Writing Residency in Auckland , and has been awarded the Hubert Church Prose Award and the Bruce Mason Playwrighting Award. She has read overseas at several arts festivals and writing events including the Chicago Festival of Humanities, World Poetry Festival, Malaysia, Vilenica in Slovenia, and Cuirt in Galway, Ireland. Her last collection of poetry was thirty prose poems written on 'iconic' New Zealand subjects, and entitled: 'The Cheese and Onion Sandwich and Other New Zealand Icons'.

Mary Macpherson (above left) is a Wellington poet and photographer. Her work has appeared in many print and online journals such as Sport, Hue and Cry, Landfall, Etchings and Trout. Her poetry publications include the joint collection Millionaire’s Shortbread (OUP) and The Inland Eye (Pemmican Press). Her most recent work is Old New World, a book of her photographs about change in New Zealand society as seen in small town New Zealand .  Her reading will focus on work that connects with her photography practice.

Where:  The Thistle Inn, near Wellington Railway Station, Thorndon

Cost: $3 members, $5 non members

The meeting begins at 7.30, but you might like to join others 7.00 for a social time in the bar.

All Welcome