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The final stretch of the inaugural laureateship was as busy as the rest of it. Here is the date list:
20 April Guest speaker and reader at Devonport Rotary Club meeting.
29 April MC for LOUNGE #7 (note:PDF) ten readers doing five minutes apiece, one of the biggest readings to date with over 70 people packed into the Old Government House Lounge, Auckland. Photos here (note:PDF).
11 May Launch speaker for Chris Price’s new book of poems The Blind Singer at the Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland. Chris performed with partner Robbie Duncan and pianist / composer Jonathan Besser. Graham Beattie blogged the occasion here.
18 May Guest lecture and reading for Jack Ross’s stage two Life-writing course at Massey University, Albany campus. We discussed researching family history by means of the treasures from Papers Past.
27 May MC and reader for LOUNGE #8 (note:PDF) at Old Government House, Auckland. Photos here (note:PDF). LOUNGE will resume August-October with another three readings. The series is archived here.
2 June Launch of Phantom Billstickers poem posters in Auckland with Tusiata Avia, James Milne and others. View the video Poem Posters to the World and look out for further poster runs as the Phantoms sort almost 400 poems sent to them for consideration.
11 June Workshop at Stanley Bay School, Devonport, to launch the community project A Million Poems for Matariki.
17 June Guest speaker and reader at the University of Auckland’s Schools Partnership dinner, ‘A Hint of Gold.’
19 June Launch of A Million Poems for Matariki at Devonport Primary School.
24 June Start of Matariki 2009 and launch of Mirabile Dictu at the Devonport Public Library.
30 June Launch of Mirabile Dictu and Michele Leggott / The Laureate Series at the National Library in Wellington.
7 July Guest poet for Poetry Live with musician Jonathan Besser at The Thirsty Dog in K Road, Auckland. We excerpted a quartet of poems from Mirabile Dictu and presented them as ‘dog dove elephant parrot.’
Coming up
22 July Celebrating the new laureate with the National Library and Phantom Billstickers in Wellington.
24 July Reader with Murray Edmong, Bob Orr, Ian Wedde and others at Poetry Central 2009 at Auckland Central City Library. The event celebrates John Newton’s The Double Rainbow, a fascinating enquiry into James K Baxter’s impact on the tangata whenua and the young people who came to Jerusalem in the 1970s.
26 July MC and reader with Helen Sword and Sonja Yelich for A Million Poems for Matariki: Reading at The Depot in Devonport 1-3 pm, where some of the 1000-plus poster poems will be read and book prizes given away.
2 August Guest speaker for Retina NZ meeting in Parnell, Auckland.
7 August Workshop with Poukawa School in Hawke’s Bay. More poems, more posters, more chalk!
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