Words on Edge - Wellington event tomorrow 15 February

MEOW café

9 Edward Street Wellington

Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 7.30-9pm

Poets reading from their own work, and reading from each other’s, and generally giving the idea of poetry as words on edge a run for its money. Or as Ian Wedde has it, putting words 'on the edges of their seats, at the edges of the known universe, where speaking, writing, and telling get shuffled in the language deck. Edgy words, words on high alert.’

This event is free, Fergus Barrowman will steer, and an edgy time is guaranteed.

The poets

Amy Brown is teaching creative writing and completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne.  Her first poetry collection, The Propaganda Poster Girl (VUP, 2008) was shortlisted for a Montana New Zealand Book Award.

Lynn Jenner’s Dear Sweet Harry won the Adam Foundation Prize for Creative Writing and the Society of Authors Jessie McKay prize for Best First Book of Poetry.

Aleksandra Lane (right)completed her MA in Creative Writing at the IIML (Victoria University) in 2010, and was awarded the Biggs Poetry Prize for her portfolio.

Ian Wedde teaches in the departments of English and Art History at Auckland University. He has published dozens of works and is the current New Zealand Poet Laureate.