i.m. Roger Blackley
Art historian and associate professor Roger Blackley died last week, leaving many of us in the worlds of art and New Zealand history feeling bereft. Roger was one of my […]
New publication
Next month will see the publication of South, the third and final suite of poems which Kerry wrote for presentation with photographs by William Williams. Work from the first two […]
Reading and Reading
My poem ‘All-day Wayside’ was Paula Green’s ‘Monday poem’ last week. Paula’s NZ Poetry Shelf blog is well known to NZ poets for its wide-ranging information, interviews, reviews and poems […]
Ashburton Art Gallery talk
Young Country opens at Ashburton Art Gallery at 2pm, Sunday 10 September. Wayne Barrar and I will be giving a joint talk at the opening, discussing the exhibition, photographer William […]
Poetry Ngaio
Two free community events are focusing on poetry in Ngaio and Crofton Downs this August. The first is an opportunity to have a go at writing and sharing poems in […]
Whangarei Art Museum Talk
I’m giving a poetry reading and floor talk with Wayne Barrar at Whangarei Art Museum, 11am, Saturday 8 July – discussing Young Country, photographer William Williams, and the complex, intensive […]
1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition
Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand have developed a significant exhibition centred around three key documents in our history: He Whakaputanga (the 1835 Declaration of Independence), […]
