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Sarah Broom Poetry Prize – Finalists 2018
We are delighted to announce four finalists for the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize in 2018. Stuart Airey is a poet with a day job as an optometrist, which involves using the logical, scientific part of his mind. He describes poetry as “letting me explore all the other bits”. Stuart began writing poetry a few years ago; […]
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NZ poets shortlisted for $20,000 Montreal International Poetry Award 2017
Eight Australian and two New Zealand poets have been shortlisted for the C$20,000 (A$20,440) Montreal International Poetry Award 2017. Australians shortlisted for the award are S K Kelen for ‘Soldiers’; Christopher Kelen for ‘An Attitude of Waiters’ and ‘The Thieves Have Gone’; Anthony Lawrence for ‘Blue Curtains’; Marjorie Main for ‘The Ways’; Felicity Plunkett for […]
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Talofa Lava Selina!
Selina Tusitala Marsh is your new Poet Laureate. New Zealand Poet Laureate Award acceptance speech Read on National Poetry Day, 25 August 2017, Fale Pasifika, University of Auckland book launch of Tightrope (Auckland University Press). I accept this award on behalf of the ten-year-old at St Joseph’s in Otahuhu who found a word to rhyme with monocle […]
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National Schools Poetry Award celebrates New Zealand’s poets of the future
National Schools Poetry Award celebrates New Zealand’s poets of the future Zora Patrick, a year 12 student of Wellington High School, has won first place in the 2017 International Institute of Modern Letters’ (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award, with her poem ‘Dampening’. Zora receives a prize of $500 and the opportunity to attend a poetry […]
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TODAY IS NATIONAL POETRY DAY
The 20/20 Poetry Collection – list of poets and poems Poetry gifted to the nation on Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day www.nzbookawards.nz/national-poetry-day/calendar-of-events/ Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day celebrates 20 years on Friday 25 August and gifts to the nation, inaugural online poetry Collection 20/20. The 20/20 Collection features poems by many of New Zealand’s best […]
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Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day
Bringing poetry to the people with free online collection Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day celebrate their 20th anniversary this year and, to mark the occasion, are publishing free online poetry collection 20/20. The collection includes Poet Laureates, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards winners and strong new voices from recent collections and anthologies. The 20/20 […]
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National Poetry Day August 25
Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day celebrate 20 years with diverse poetry collection To mark the 20th anniversary of Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day (NPD), 20 leading Kiwi poets were asked to select one of their own poems, something they felt spoke to New Zealanders now. They also chose a poem by an emerging poet, writers […]
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