I'm lucky enough to be the guest poet at Stand Up Poetry in Palmerston North next week. If you're up that way, you can catch me at:
Palmerston North City Library
Sound and Vision Centre (ground floor)
Wednesday 6 May 2009
7.00 pm
Stand Up Poetry begins with an open mike reading - people are invited to bring 5 minutes of their best work. Then I get to read for 20-30 minutes. If we can figure out the technology, I'm also planning to do a couple of poems accompanied by images on a screen - I have some that are very inspired by artwork, and I've always thought it would be cool to try to present them together.
I haven't been to Palmerston North in a little while. I used to go there all the time because my grandparents lived there - my father had grown up there. Don't have many relatives left there now though.
Ok, now just have to figure out exactly what I'm going to read.
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sounds interesting. Hope you have a fantastic time!
Good evening. Following a trail of links from Hix to here and discovering people I know with blogs. Good.
Cathy is currently in the Wasteland (Palmerston North) promoting Victoria University.
I obviously haven't been paying attention at all, but I have now read all your posts and am slightly updated.
Anything else I should know about?
John-Paul
Helen from 'The Wasteland' here - thanks so much for coming, Helen - you were an absolute star and everyone enjoyed your work immensely!
It was great to meet you!
x Helen (the other one, who isn't the one who lives in Paekak, but the other one...)
John-Paul! Lovely to hear from you. You've moved your blog. We should catch up sometime. All the best with your potty training.
Helen (I think of you as 'Stripy-sock Helen', rather than 'the other Helen' - though I am often also a stripy-sock wearer, as you now know), thanks so much for having me. I really enjoyed it and have been absolutely buzzing since. Am also a bit sleepy! I think you've got a lovely poetry community up there and you're doing excellent work keeping them encouraged and orderly! Artandmylife twittered that if I saw you I should give you a big hug from her, though I didn't read that until this morning, but consider yourself hugged.
Thanks so very very much for having me, it was a lovely experience. I plan to blog about it soon.
It was lovely to meet you in real life. And sometime in the next wee while perhaps we should do a Helen Cubed reading of some sort!
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