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Freaky Meat

thursday 10th december 2009
whammy bar

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POETRY LIVE

Tuesday 01st September 09, 8 pm – Late
at The Thirsty Dog
469 K- road (Karangahape road )

Please note: Guest Poet Murray Edmond kicks off at 8pm

Guest Poet : Murray Edmond

Has published 11 books of poems, the latest THE FRUITS OF from Holloway Press in June this year and a 12th book called WALLS TO KICK AND HILLS TO SING FROM: A COMEDY WITH INTERRUPTIONS will be published by Auckland University Press in 2010. Also editor of 3 anthologies (BIG SMOKE: NEW ZEALAND POEMS 1960 – 1975, AUP, 2000), a book about the influence of Noh drama on the Western avant-garde (Atelos Press, Berkeley, 2005) and editor of the on-line journal KA MATE KA ORA: A NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF POETRY AND POETICS

Open Mic

Guest Musician : Ed
on acoustic guitar and brass instruments

Guest Poet : Joshua Goodwind

Is about 7 feet tall, with the wide, bloodshot eyes of a rabid hyena. Arms like great redwoods and feet like a pair of cinder blocks. He’s from Te Aroha, and spend most of his time shooting at woodland creatures with his trusty crossbow. His favourite colour is midnight.

Open Mic

New Zealand poet, playwright and novelist Alistair Te Ariki Campbell has died, aged 84.

NZ Herald article

don’t panic – this is the inner – posting – member site of aucklandpoetry.com – just thought the old seagulls were getting a bit stale – so in the words of Ezra Pound, Make it New – well almost – this is a shot of the Queen Street skyline without the Skytower.  Do comment if you like it or not.  The Editions will continue to have a unique header, but the inner site – we will try and settle on an image for consistency.

Wordpress 2.7 is now in place.  Why is this major?   The site should look pretty much the same as before.   But when you go into the Admin areas to contribute your works you will notice it is vastly different.

The editing windows are now called Visual and HTML. The same problem of entering paragraphs into Visual instead of verse spacing – so use the HTML instead.

Wordpress is completely revised
and yet seems to work
pretty much as before
to enter verse in this style
use the HTML window

Any problems – you know you can email me. It is so very much better. When your draft is ready for editing you can set it to Pending Review, may help to have a play in the new Admin system and check what you have in your drafts list.

Roaming the wasted land of central Auckland
up and down the alleyways the street hills
meaningless building sites now deserts
the empty businesses that used to be landmarks
now impossible shells around the corner building the
sold out towers of grime all that investment may fall apart
in reasonable time its part of the luck its blessed with
the reasonable suspicion of the citizens
the unbelieving glances off sidewalks
blue and clean 38 million hewn from
a sacred mountain and now underfoot
peddled off in small doses
stone floor riddled with foot prints
the begging shops with their wares
this lot must go as
we have another shipment
already coming in and
the bankers building the towers
are hoping for another summer
for local builders but an offshore Goliath
all dressed in silk ties and smiles
takes all in handshakes brewed in briefcases
infection of confidence spending big on the structure
then compel the tenants to enjoy the hours of
waiting for a customer who’s turn is it anyway

walk through this land where cars are considered
the enemy and its pedestrians rush through hoping
to get him for the six o’clock news

Edition 10 has now been posted on the site front page