Poetry Soiree
9 October 2020
6pm-8pm
Free event
Join us after hours at the Museum on National Poetry Day. Come to a soiree supported by The Friends of Waikato Museum and Hamilton Book Month.
Light refreshments are served from 6-6.30pm and poetry readings begin at 6.30pm.
This event is part of Hamilton Book Month.
Poets:
essa may ranapiri
essa may ranapiri (Ngāti Raukawa/Ngāti Takatāpui/Clan Gunn/Highgate, England) is a poet from Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa. They are a graduate of the IIML’s 2017 Masters in Creative Writing course. Their first collection of poems titled ransack (VUP) was longlisted for the Ockham in 2020. They are also the featured poet in Poetry Yearbook 2020 (Massey University Press). Their writing skews experimental, personal and political, lyric, concrete poetry, and polemic. With these forms they explore their identity as takatāpui and imagine radical forms of tino rangatiratanga. They write for their descendants long ago and their ancestors yet to come. photo credit: Loren Thomas |
Mere Taito is originally from Rotuma, Fiji. She is based in Hamilton and works at the University of Waikato. She is the author of The Light and Dark in our Stuff, a chapbook of poetry. Her work has also appeared in various anthologies and creative journals such as Wild Honey, Landfall, Manifesto Aotearoa, Nga Kupu Waikato, Phantom Billstickers Café Reader, Poetical Bridges (a translated English-Romanian collection of work), Flash Frontier, So Many Islands (work from writers in the Caribbean, Oceania, and Mediterranean), and Bonsai (an anthology of flash fiction). Her poem ‘The quickest way to trap a folktale’ was selected as a Best New Zealand Poem (BNZP) for 2017.
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Richard is an artist, poet, playwright, film-maker, and musician. He has published seven books featuring a mixture of poetry, prose poems and creative non-fiction and his works have appeared in The New Zealand Listener, brief, Landfall, Sport, and Zen Bow. Richard is currently Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato.
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Tracey Slaughter
Tracey Slaughter's latest poetry collection is Conventional Weapons (VUP, 2019). Her award-winning novella if there is no shelter is due for publication in the UK later in 2020 (with Ad Hoc Fiction), & she is the author of acclaimed short fiction collection Deleted Scenes for Lovers (VUP, 2016). Her poetry and short stories have won numerous national & international awards, including the international Fish Short Story Prize 2020 & the Bridport Prize 2014. She teaches creative writing at the University of Waikato, where she edits the journals Mayhem and Poetry New Zealand.
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