features

A selection of nzepc-hosted pages featuring poets and poetry with a New Zealand or Pacific connection.

Young Knowledge: A Public Conversation

nzepc joins with NZ Poet Laureate Ian Wedde and Auckland Central City Library to present Young Knowledge: A Public Conversation, the first in a series of events sponsored by the National Library in which poets read and discuss a well-known New Zealand poem. On this occasion Ian Wedde, Murray Edmond, Michele Leggott, Mary Paul and Iain Sharp take on  Robin Hyde’s ‘Young Knowledge‘ (1936). Audio files recorded and made available by nzepc. 

LOUNGE 24

SHORT TAKES ON LONG POEMS kicked off with LOUNGE 24, a reading featuring eleven symposium speakers at Old Government House on the University of Auckland City Campus, 28 March 2012.  

SHORT TAKES ON LONG POEMS:
A Trans Tasman symposium at the University of Auckland

Where does the contemporary long poem locate itself in physical and digital space? How do we present long forms to each other in the round and on the web? The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) and visiting American poet Rachel Blau DuPlessiss host two days of talks and performances at the University of Auckland culminating in a long poem collaboration on Onetangi beach, Waiheke Island.

periphery / to carry around

As part of ‘Poetry & the Contemporary,’ a conference held in Melbourne 7-9 July 2011 and hosted by Deakin University, eighteen New Zealand and Australian poets met at Carlton Gardens to make a collaborative video work with texts brought specifically for the purpose but undisclosed beforehand. Later in the day we recorded further readings at the Victorian Trades Hall and Kris Hemensley’s Collected Works Bookshop.

Phantoms at LOUNGE

Phantom Billstickers launches a new series of poem posters at LOUNGE #13 with readings by local poets, musicians, student writers and the US Consul General. Video clips and posters.

All Together Now: A Digital Bridge for Auckland and Sydney
A two-phase multimedia anthology launching March and September in conjunction with nzepc’s HOME & AWAY 2010 trans Tasman poetry symposium. Edited by Pam Brown, Martin Edmond, Brian Flaherty and Michele Leggott.

HOME & AWAY 2010
A trans Tasman poetry symposium, 30-31 March at the University of Auckland; 1-2 September at the University of Technology Sydney. Programmes, presentations, photos and digital bridge.

SEVEN STARS: a project for Matariki 2009
Seven poets east to west across the isthmus of Tamaki Makaurau (Auckland) look for the stars of Matariki as they appear in the northeastern sky June-July. Murray Edmond, David Eggleton, Brian Flaherty, Paula Green, Michele Leggott, Selina Tusitala Marsh and Lisa Samuels.

Some shells in a tobacco tin: Tributes for Ruth Dallas 1919-2008
David Howard collects a wide range of responses to the work and life of Ruth Dallas, with audio of the poet reading from Song for a Guitar and Other Songs

Love, War and Last Things: A Digital Bridge for Florence at the NZ Studies Association/Centre for NZ Studies conference.

Featuring digital works by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Paula Green, Jack Ross, Robert Sullivan and audio poems by Alan Brunton, Lauris Edmond, Murray Edmond, Rowley Habib, Anne Kennedy, John Male, Mary Stanley and Kendrick Smithyman

Paula Green reads from Making Lists for Frances Hodgkins
video clips of Paula Green reading from her latest book

Selina Tusitala Marsh -Tapa in the Park
Video and photographs of Selina’s performance of ‘Not Another Nafanua Poem’ in Albert Park with students from the University of Auckland’s English 347 Poetry off the Page.

BLUFF 06
A poetry symposium in Southland, 21-24 April 2006, hosted by Te Rau Aroha Marae, Bluff, and Toi Rakiura (Stewart Island). Programme, poems, presentations, photos and reviews.

Pam Brown Reads in Auckland
Text and video clips of Australian poet and Jacket magazine co-editor Pam Brown reading recent poems at the University of Auckland, September 2005.

Joanna Margaret Paul (1945-2003)
a co-publication with brief 32 of work by and about Joanna Margaret Paul (1945-2003)

Leaflets & Chalk
A project by students, poets and nzepc to bring poems into public spaces of the University of Auckland campus as printed handouts and chalked texts on Montana Poetry Day, Friday 22 July 2005.

FUGACITY O5
A poetry symposium at the University of Canterbury 21 -- 23 April 2005. Links to poems, presentations, posters, photos and reviews.

Online Poetry Anthology
Between 12 noon Thursday 21 April and 12 noon Saturday 23 April 2005 poems mailed or brought on a disk to the FUGACITY 05 symposium were assembled to make an online poetry anthology ready for launching at New Brighton beach

3rd Birthday
Celebrations and a symposium, including 13 poets reading (video and text)

Capital of the minimal
Artists, poets and musicians from the fringes of Dunedin

Big Smoke Comment and Context
Poets and readers of Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975 comment on and contextualise the era and the work it produced.

brief #28 Alan Brunton
Co-publication with brief #28 of materials from Alan Brunton special issue (Spring 2003), ed. Jack Ross.
 

Seeing Voices 
A New Zealand Festival of Poetry
23-25 August, 2002 at the University of Auckland

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Last updated 28 November, 2012