3rd Birthday Feature

Celebrations and a symposium for the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
( nzepc) at the Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 Shortland St, Auckland CBD,

16-17 July 2004.

Full programme

nzepc hosts a gathering of writers recently involved with the site for two days of readings, launches and discussion. 16 July is Montana National Poetry Day and marks three years of nzepc operation.

New on the site for 3rd Birthday:

• Capital of the Minimal: The Dunedin Sound. Edited by David Howard.
• 12 Taonga from the Aotearoa / New Zealand Sound Archive. Edited by Jan Kemp and Jack Ross.
• Voyagers:A selection from Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English
  (Auckland UP, 2003). Edited by Robert Sullivan, Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri.
• Graham Lindsay, poems from The Subject and Legend of the Cool Secret.
• Mark Young, A Fistful of Ficciones, Questions & Answers (with Martin Edmond)
• nzepc Tapa Notebooks: a new archive featuring poets’ notebooks at the University of Auckland Special Collections - Murray Edmond, Yang Lian

Photo gallery

Photos from Hilary Chung, Jack Ross, John Macnamara and Graham Lindsay. AUP launches Friday 16 July

• nzepc launches Saturday 17 July
• Rangitoto Sunday 18 July

3rd Birthday Gala Reading

a public anthology for National Poetry Day

Poster for reading

13 poets read for five minutes apiece at the Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland, 16 July 2004. Text and video

• Bob Orr   
• Brian Flaherty
• David Howard
• Genevieve McClean   
• Graham Lindsay
• Jack Ross
• Jan Kemp
• John Newton
• Mark Young
• Michele Leggott
• Murray Edmond
• Robert Sullivan
• Sonja Yelich