Wellington
Branch New Zealand Society of Authors Courage Day event.
Speaker: Dr Jeffrey Paparoa Holman (left)
JPH
is a prolific poet, who has published in most leading New Zealand journals and
has brought out a number of books, including As Big as a Father (2002). The Late Great Blackball Bridge Sonnets
(2004) and Land Very Fertile
(2008). In 2010 he published a major study of the anthropologist Elsdon Best
and his encounters with Maori leaders.
This year he published Shaken Down 6.3 a collection of
poems and an essay focusing on the Christchurch earthquake. He will address us
about the courage of people, including writers, in Christchurch , and more
generally on writers' courage to speak in stressful and dangerous situations.
Time:
6pm,
19 November 2012
Place: The Thistle Inn, Thorndon (near Wellington
Railway Station)
All Welcome
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