2016 Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2016 hits New Zealand on the 26th of August and the celebration unleashes the power of poetry all around our great nation with more than seventy events and a number of poetry competitions.
Parklands Library draws on “the poet within”, within the Christchurch City Libraries that is. That’s right, many of our librarians are writers too and, instead of dispensing poetry books to customers, on Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 2pm four of our librarian poets will be reading their own work.
The poets are:
Damien Taylor is a street poet who loves to retell his experiences from deprived small town aspirations to broken big smoke dreams. He likes to call himself T?hore and wishes he was more M?ori than he actually is.
Rob Lees is a born and bred Cantabrian and Goddess of the Knowledge Mountain, according to her husband. She says that her poetry is a reflection of her life experiences and is a way of keeping the voices in her head out!!
dYLAN kEMP is an artist of some renown. Not heaps, but some. He has published 3 books of poetry, all available from Christchurch City Libraries. He also paints, drums, dances like a wild man, and tickles his children.
Andrew M. Bell has published two books of poetry, Green Gecko Dreaming and Clawed Rains, and one book of short stories, Aotearoa Sunrise (all available from Christchurch City Libraries). His work has been published and broadcast in Aotearoa, Australia, England, Israel and USA.