When Love Comes to Town: Poetry Reading by David Howard, Michele Leggott, Jack Ross and Fredrika van Elburg

14 February 2015, 1.30pm, Drawing Room, Pah Homestead, 72 Hillsborough Road, Auckland.

Michele Leggott, Jack Ross, and Fredrika van Elburg will join the current Otago Wallace Resident David Howard to celebrate St Valentine's Day by reading love poetry.

This event is free to attend however seats are limited, please RSVP to enquiries@wallaceartstrust.org.nz.

David Howard is the Otago Wallace Resident at Pah Homestead. After co-founding Takahē magazine (1989), he spent his professional life as a pyrotechnics supervisor whose clients ranged from the All Blacks to Metallica. In 2003 David retired to Purakaunui in order to write. Cold Hub Press published his collected works as The Incomplete Poems (2011). David held the Robert Burns Fellowship 2013. He is the editor of 'A Place To Go On From: the Collected Poems of Iain Lonie' (Otago University Press, 2015).

 
Fredrika van Elburg is Dutch born and has lived in New Zealand for almost the last fifty years. She studied English at the University of Auckland. As part of her PhD work she translated Dutch poetry into English, and later some of David Howard’s poetry into Dutch. A little of the results can be heard at the Pah Homestead reading. 

 
Michele Leggott was the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate 2007-09 and received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2013. Her collections include Heartland (2014) and Mirabile Dictu (2009), both from Auckland University Press. She coordinates the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) with Brian Flaherty at the University of Auckland, and recently co-edited Alan Brunton’s selected poems, Beyond the Ohlala Mountains (Titus Books 2013) with Martin Edmond.  

 

Jack Ross is a poet, fiction-writer and critic who works as a Senior Lecturer in  Creative Writing at Massey University's Auckland Campus. His latest book, A Clearer View of the Hinterland: Poems and Sequences 1981-2014,appeared last year from HeadworX in Wellington. His other publications include four full-length poetry collections, three novels, and three volumes of short fiction. He has also edited a number of books and literary magazines, including (from 2014) Poetry NZ. He blogs at The Imaginary Museum [http://mairangibay.blogspot.com/].