Poetry @ The Thistle Inn, Wellington Monday 18 April, 7.30pm The Thistle Inn, 3 Mulgrave St, Thorndon
The New Zealand Poetry Society presents Owen Bullock. Owen has been writing haiku since 1999 and his work in that genre has appeared in publications as diverse as Presence, Frogpond, paper wasp, Shamrock and Magnapoets. He is a former editor of Spin/Kokako, Bravado, and Poetry NZ. Owen has published a book of haiku, wild camomile (Post Pressed, Australia, 2009); the novella A Cornish Story (Palores, UK, 2010), and a number of chapbooks of poetry. His first full collection of longer poems, sometimes the sky isn't big enough, is forthcoming from Steele Roberts.
The event is open to the public, and starts at 7.30pm. There will be an open mic and there is a $5 entry fee ($3 for members).
Supported by Creative Communities / Wellington City Council.
The pleasures of the text are the pleasures of spring. Halter tops, tanned skin, buttocks sashaying past an open office door. You pack your books away.
The self is conceived as a structure of signifiers. Thirty years at the chalk-face, a dozen published books, twenty to life in the M.L.A.
The forms of nature order themselves in codes. Wine and juice, finger food, a bound edition of Baudrillard, a speech from the Head of School.
To repeat excessively is to enter into loss. You will haunt the Library, play golf, back the wrong horse into the descending zero of the sun.
Tim Jones from his forthcoming book Men Briefly Explained.
This week we at The Tuesday Poem blog and blog ring celebrate our first birthday. I'm glad Mary McCallum asked me to be a founding member of the circle. Every Tuesday we each publish or celebrate a poem on our blogs. This week I've written a line in the 'exquisite corpse' communal birthday poem. My line "He lets go his hand so the biter can be tied" ends the second stanza of the poem.Happy birthday Tuesday Poem: many happy returns.
