Coming up at ModCon

Followed, this coming Friday by Ann Vickery and Ali Alizadeh
launching The Political Imagination -
a special issue of 'Southerly' magazine:
click on the posters to enlarge them

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Acts is a sequence of performative, diegetic abstractions that pep up the experiential with humorous cynicism. Here are some sentient strategies for tackling a theory. Ali Alizadeh poeticizes Jacques Lacan's three interrelated levels of reality - the symbolic, the imaginary and the real. A question might be 'Is poetry a mere side-effect of philosophy?' Does Ali Alizadeh know the answer? One thing I know is that you can savour these shrewd poems without needing any Lacanian expertise. They are genuinely responsive to this erratic world and will account for it, genially, on your behalf.

For further information visit Black Rider Press

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Last week, I visited Rangitoto Island, & climbed to the summit.
Photos of this young volcano can be found here

Farewell Rangitoto, Farewell Aotearoa, New Zealand

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At Auckland University today, Susan Davis presented a selection of flags made by her late husband, the poet and artist, Leigh Davis. The class, 'Poetry Off The Page', is an undergraduate course in the English Department - the students are inventive and know how to make art from language in a variety of ways. To see photos of the flags and the presentation, click here and then click on the images in the set.

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Happy Hybridities for Adam Aitken
from the album Great Gift Ideas from New Zealand

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Memorial Hall, Whanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand

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Matapouri, Tutukaka Coast, North East Aotearoa New Zealand

for more paradisiacal scenery from Matapouri click here

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Friday 20th September
in Wellington, New Zealand

AUSTRALIAN POET : PAM BROWN
in conversation with Gregory O'Brien

DATE AND TIME: Friday 20 September at 6pm
VENUE: International Institute of Modern Letters,
Kelburn Campus, Victoria University

For further details, click here

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