Guest Musician 8th june

GUEST MUSICIAN - Karen Hunter

her latest Album Words & Groove blends original jazz,dirty blues and sensuous performance poetry. Vocalist and guitarist/songwriter karen HUNTER performs in an innovative and entertaining style entwining personal experience with liberally embellished stories, bridging the gap between the dangerous and the mundane.

http://www.karenhunter.com/

Guest Poet June 8th

GUEST POET - Rebecca Reider
Rebecca Reider is a spoken word poet residing in Golden Bay. She is known for her powerful live performances, ranging from the intimate to the political (and sometimes both at the same time). She is currently at work on her second poetry CD, in collaboration with musicians

http://www.myspace.com/rebeccapoetry

Guest Poet June 1 2010

Tanya Meek studied Creative Writing with Albert Wendt at Auckland University. She has had poetry published in a few anthologies, came third in the Go West poetry slam in 2009 and was a member of Bride Riot, a poetry performance troupe. She worked in tv as a scriptwriter for 6 years, produced two daughters and has just reinvented herself as a teacher.

Guest Musician 1st june 2010

George D. Henderson is the singer in the Puddle since 1982 and has recently released CD albums No Love - No Hate and The Shakespeare Monkey (Fishrider records). A new LP Puddle album, Playboys in the Bush is scheduled for release in 2010. An essay by George "On Drugs" appears in the latest Landfall # 219 " On Music ".

30th BIRTHDAY !!

POETRY LIVE 30th BIRTHDAY

Open Mic

music by DJ Andy Flyboy

Dressup is encouraged and the venue will be themed with props from the 80's

come celebrate 30 years of true contemporary poetry
a celebration of Poetry in motion, homage to those that have carried it through the ages and a re-visiting of the age it came to be in; the 80's

That's right it's an 80's themed Poetry Live Party. So dig into your closet and dust off your power suit , leather pants or rock n roll skirts, put on your Devo hat, put on some Clockwork Orange eye makeup, get your shoulder pads on and perm your hair and join us in a flashback to the 'poetic' 80's

DJ Andy Flyboy will be providing appropriate music to finish off the night


about Poetry Live

Since it's conception in 1980, Poetry Live has been a place for poets to read and share poetry through a broad range of poetic styles and topics. 30 years ago David Mitchell wanted to offer a gathering point for poets of all kinds. With its recorded beginnings at the Globe Tavern in 1980, Poetry Live has been a gathering point for poets in Auckland for decades. Poetry Live has moved through many venues and passed through the hands of many organizers, but has always been a torch that has been carried through its ups and downs. In it's 30th year Poetry Live is healthier and doing better than ever, and we would now like to celebrate those that have helped to keep this regular and unique venue alive; both the amazing guests that have performed, the patron poets who frequent the open mic, the listeners that come to appreciate and the new faces who brave the stage and mic and the hard working MC's who make it happen every week, driven only by the love of poetry

hosted by
MC's Miriam , Christian, Rachael and Kiri


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Get your copy of Live Lines III today! Simply reply to this email to place an order or pop into to Poetry Live on Tuesday nights. $15 each.

Submissions for Live Lines Volume IV are OPEN NOW!!!!

Submissions close on September 30th.

Submissions are open to all poets who read at Poetry Live.

Send 2 - 5 of your best poems in hard-copy to: Poetry Live, 770 A Mount Eden Rd, Mount Eden , Auckland. Be sure to include a cover letter and your contact details (especially email address).

Alternatively, you can hand your submission directly to any of the Poetry Live MCs on Tuesday nights.

Follow Poetry Live at http://www.poetrylive.co.nz

Poetry Live 18th May Guest Musician

OTIS MACE, Guitar Ace!
Otis is a singer/songwriter/musician who performs both solo and with various combos. Fresh, bright, irreverent, and darkly comic takes on life in Aotearoa. Otis Mace presents artfully-constructed love ballads and bright pop songs and always includes an element of vivid story telling in his punchy performance. Recently he has performed twice for Auckland’s “The Parnell Festival of Roses” and a one hour concert for Music In Parks. He has toured overseas, and has opened for Billy Bragg, The Violent Femmes and Attilla The Stockbroker and many popular NZ acts.
Albums are on ‘Powertool’ and ‘Jayrem’ and ‘Ode Labels’.
www.otismace.com
www.myspace.com/otismace

Poetry Live 18th May - Guest Poet

Miriam Barr has come a long way since she first turned up at Poetry Live nine years ago with shaky paper. Since then, her poems have been published in Landfall, Poetry NZ, Enamel, JAAM, Black Mail Press and other places. For Poetry Live, Miriam will be delivering a combination of poems from the Bullet Hole Riddle collection, alongside newer poems and the odd world premier. Expect a mixture of performance and more pared back readings, woven with improvised music by Otis Mace.

Plus the launch of Side Stream 24. Come and get your free copy.

Guest Poet 4th May 2010

Michael Steven

Michael Steven is the author of Centreville Springs & Bartering Lines, both published by Kilmog Press, Dunedin.

His work has appeared in various journals, both print & electronic.

Guest Musician 4th May 2010

Simon Comber's first album Pre-Pill Love (2006) introduced New Zealand to a songwriter of quiet insight and shrewd economy. Written whilst Comber was based in Dunedin, and co-produced with such musical luminaries as Edmund McWilliams (Bressa Creeting Cake) and Graeme Downes (The Verlaines), songs like Early Spring Rain, Sunday Horrors and Marylands said what they had to say (on topics ranging from watching horror movies with the one you love to child abuse) and got the hell out, occasionally not even breaking the 2 minute mark. Since releasing Pre-Pill Love Comber has moved back to Auckland from whence he came, and more importantly, written material for a follow up album. His sophomore release Endearance has for the most part traded acoustic for electric guitar, and is in some ways the folk-rock counterpart to his folk-pop debut. Though his love of narrative songwriting has not diminished, with songs like The Jaws of Life staring down the barrel of family dysfunction with a characteristic candour, the instrumentation makes its presence felt more on the new record. Nobility, a meditative, lyrically existentialist piece, tips its hat to sixties psychedelia, and the title track, a haunting homage to the music of John Fahey, is the first purely instrumental composition Comber has written. Recorded at the Masonic Lodge in Port Chalmers outside of Dunedin. Comber enlisted the help of Dale Cotton (Conray), Darren Stedman (The Verlaines) and Tom Healy (The Low Spark) to contribute engineering, drums and bass respectively and help bring his new songs to fruition.

Guest Musician April 27th 2010

Guest Musician: Chris Weeks

With a sound that stems from an unashamedly pop punk back ground, Chris's songs are fueled by a love for music and the experiences which create it. His songs are honest and angst-filled but with a catchy melody to offset the mood, with sincere and heartfelt lyrics that also endeavour to maintain an awkward sense of humor, often using satire. Chris takes his music seriously but never himself, with his main goal in life being to play music everyday and have fun doing it!

Guest Poet Poetry Live April 27th 2010

Guest Poet: Richard Wasley

Richard Wasley was a founding member of Occam Theatre Company. In a car, plus trailer for props and scenery, the company toured small towns in the North Island in the late 1980s with small cast plays such as Harold Pinter’s ‘The Lover.' Richard also toured a one-man show, ‘Hess,’ concerning Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer of Nazi Germany, and read poetry at various schools throughout the North Island. He is now the owner of Unicorn Books in Warkworth and reads poetry at various venues.

Poetry LIve 20th April

GUEST MUSICIAN - Dominic Blaazer

My maunga are the Blue Mountains

My moana is the Caribbean

My wai is the Hope River

My waka is Air Jamaica

My rohe is Surrey

My iwi is Kingston

My hapu is Liguanea

My wahi is Barbican

My marae is Mona

In the musical world, I play keyboards and assorted rigid instruments for Don McGlashan and SJD, among others. After several years spent copywriting, the flexibility of the Theremin serves to balance and free me from the protocols of language and punctuation in all forms.

Poetry Live 20th April

GUEST POET - Sabrina Muck

Having been away from Poetry Live for a while, Sabrina is back on the scene and will perform a mix of her new works and some old favourites. Her poetry reflects inspirations and images taken from Auckland City and further afield, and is influenced by Beat poetry, slam poetry, and her wish to speak out against poverty and racism. Starting off reading on a street corner outside the infamously-packed Poetry Idol 2007, she is a member of the Literatti and has performed her work at the Auckland City Library, the University of Auckland, Poetry Live, and several poetry slams. She has previously been published online by Blackmail Press and onesentence.org.

Live lines # 3 Launch on Tuesday 30th

Live Lines #3 - In Production

Poetry Live Publishing, 2010

Anthology of 2009 at Poetry Live.

This volume will be launched on March 30th, 2010.

Live Lines # 3 features poetry by Aidan-B. Howard, Michael Morrissey, Simone Kaho, Shane Hollands, Rosetta Allan, Christian Jensen, Jenny Clay, Penny Somervaille, Paul Lewis Green, Michael Botur, Lee Wallace and more ...

Poetry Live November 10th

With guest poet Stephanie Johnson

& guest musician Joanne Chester

Open Mic!

Koha entry

MC Miriam

Stephanie Johnson began her writing career as a poet. She remembers the riotous poetry nights at the Globe in Wakefield Street. Among her other books she has published two volumes of poetry, most recently "Moody Bitch". Stephanie's poems are sometimes political, sometimes personal, and often rude and funny.

Throughout her primary school years Joanne Chester didn't miss an opportunity to learn an instrument and by the age of 12, was a master at violin, recorder, piano, clarinet, trumpet and pacman. At High School, Joanne spent more time in the music department than she spent sleeping, eating and hunting put together (not that she ever went hunting). In August 2007, Joanne joined Queen City Big Band and immediately started touring around the whole of Grey Lynn with the band, both playing trumpet and singing. In spring 2008, she recorded her first acoustic album in a friend's home studio. She has just started recording in a studio in Parnell.

THE POETRY LIVE WEBSITE IS....LIVE!!!!!

www.poetrylive.co.nz

Visit, have a look around, check out some stuff, post us a comment.

NOTE: If you had a poem accepted for Live Lines, please make sure you have emailed an electronic copy of the accepted pieces to us at poetrylive@gmail.com.

Also - launch of Side Stream #22 - last one for the year.

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Follow Poetry Live at www.poetrylivelines.blogspot.com

Poetry Live October 13th - Madness

Poetry Live October 13th @ Thirsty Dog

Guest musicians Fats White

&

Guest poet Simone Kaho

Open Mic!

MC: Miriam

Fats White are an awesome band and have brought chaos to Poetry Live before. From NZ Musician Oct/Nov 2005: "Fats White ... is refreshingly unlike most music available - satirical punk rockabilly comes close to an apt description. Often accompanied simply by a fat sounding acoustic guitar. Fats White assumes the role of social observer and renovator of words. Apart from the obligatory guitar, bass, and drums - horns, washboards, and even a carpenter's saw are employed. If you enjoy back to basics, thought provoking music with a twist..." then come to Poetry Live on Tuesday.

Simone has been an underground poet for most of her life. That is, she kept her notebooks and folders of poetry mostly to herself while developing an alter ego with a Communications Studies Degree and career in advertising. That changed when she fell in love with a musician and was inspired her to let her own inner artist out. She ventured onto the poetry live stage in 2007 and has since become a regular performer. Her poetry is dark, humorous and sometimes romantic, wistfully flavored with her Pacific Island roots. She is inspired by poetry from Bob Orr, Tusiata Avia, Albert Wendt and Vincent O’Sullivan (among others).

Live Lines Update: Submissions have now been collected for Live Lines #3 our next anthology, which will be launched in March 2010. We will accept last minute late submissions from anyone who forgot (we know how it is) up until Tuesday night. So bring along your 3-5 poems in hardcopy, or if you really can't get there, then post them to Poetry Live, 16 Millais Street, Grey Lynn (make sure to include a contact email address). Particularly those of you who have been guest poets in the past year, we especially want you. We have not received any visual art submissions this year, so we are still looking for a cover image. Thank you to all of those people who sent in submissions - I've already had a sneak peak at them and it is shaping up to be another stellar anthology.

Submissions for Side Stream 22 are also open at the moment and close on October 15th. Email short poems tosidestreamnz@gmail.com

Bring your creative hats, we're doing another collab' poem!

Last Tuesday was a wicked night - despite a noisy crowd - Christian got Mark McGill Smith to improvise music during open mic. Very cool. I vote we do that again.

Poetry Live September 8th @ Thirsty Dog

with guest musician Joanne Chester

and guest poet Michael Botur

Open mic!

Koha entry

MC Miriam

Michael Botur (pronounced BOATER) started out a poetry buff while he was an English student at Otago University, but now majors in fiction writing. He has had poetry and fiction published in Takahe, JAAM, Bravado, The Lumiere Reader, Prima Storia, Deep South, Catalyst, Sidestream, Insight, Subject, Blindswimmer, A3, Critic, Potroast, Debate and F*nk, Canada's The Med and NiL, has had short stories and poetry broadcast on The Dirty Wordz Show and has won Her magazine’s short story competition. He has just got himself a Masters in Creative Writing from AUT and wants to release a collection of short stories and a novel in 2010.

Joanne Chester has been a musician since shortly after her birth. She left school at age 18 to pursue a Bachelor of Music Education, where she fronted bands such as “The Music Education Band” and other such bands with no names. At uni, she also had the revelation that she still couldn’t play enough instruments so jumped at the opportunity to study jazz bass intensively for a year and took her guitar to an entirely new level. In August 2007, Joanne joined Queen City Big Band and immediately started touring around the whole of Grey Lynn with the band, both playing trumpet and singing. Among other things, singing with Queen City has given Jo the opportunity to sing along side Ray Woolf and she has also gotten to lead several thousand people in their favourite Christmas ditties at Carols by Candlelight at Potters Park Christmas 2007 and 2008. Throughout this time, Jo has also been writing her own songs and performing solo and duo at restaurants, private functions and youth events. In spring 2008, she recorded her first acoustic album in a friend’s home studio. She has just started recording her second album in a studio in Parnell.

Side Stream 21 launch - come along and get a copy.

Submissions for Live Lines #3 are open until the end of the month. Post hard copies to Poetry Live, 16 Millais St, Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021. Or bring them along to Poetry Live one Tuesday night and hand them to any of the MCs - Christian, me, Murray or Renee.

Copies of Live Lines #2 are available from Parsons bookshop and from Poetry Live every Tuesday - they're $15 and they're awesome and they fund Live Lines #3. Buy one. Buy eight. They'd be good Chrissy presents too.

Poetry Live Tuesday 01st September

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



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.




MC Christian

OPEN MIC
KOHA / DONATION

Poetry Live August 25th

Ahoy there Poetry Pirates!

We have some feisty wonders for you this Tuesday at the Thirsty Dog, K Road, 8:00 start. Bring some koha to throw in the hat!

Guest Musician: Anna Kaye Forsythe

Anna Kaye is a talented singer songwriter whose catchy tunes will have you dancing on the tables one second, and deep in contemplation the next. Having regaled us with her poetic skills earlier on this year, she is returning with guitar in hand to share a melody or a few. Check her out on 'Summer Fusion', a compilation made to raise money for Kidney Kids.

Guest Poet: Lee Wallace

Lee Wallace is a poet, DJ, Actor and Artist Manager, in that order. He has been performing poetry for severalyears, although only seriously for around 8 months. A music background has lent an interesting slant to his work - Lee's style is offbeat, refreshing and humorous.Highlights include reading poetry as opening act to NZ music legend Bill Direen. Lee has several upcoming projects in the works so keep an eye out, and enjoy the set

Open mic & Koha entry as usual. You know the drill.

See you all there! And now for something completely different.

Here's something y'all may be interested in. It's not a Po Live event at all, but it sure sounds fun:

Screwed On Creative is a Charitable Trust set up so we can provide an avenue for artists to collaborate together more and be exposed not only as a solo but as a collective. Too many people sit and wait for opportunities to come to them but we want to create them for ourselves as well as provide the chance for people to do the same. Through this organisation we believe we can maximise our exposure within the industry, facilitate artistic projects, and ultimately collaborate and learn. The first project we are working on is a poetry reading. There is so much unseen talent in New Zealand that is underutilised and unappreciated and we want to bring that to light. We are currently organising auditions and then a further poetry reading with an invited audience to increase exposure to high profiles within the industry. Whether its contemporary poets or actors with monologues with a poetical twist or anyone who just wants their say we want to hear it all! We want as many people to audition as possible so we have higher chances of having a rewarding night of entertainment. We'll be holding the poetry reading on Oct 1st at Rannoch, the home of the James Wallace private art collection which will include a tour of the galleries, wine and nibbles etc. Auditions are on the 12th of September at 77 Almorah Rd, Epsom, Auckland in the upper gallery, signs will indicate the way. Contact 021 203 5557 to book an audition time or email screwedoncreative@gmail.com Please forward on this message where you think it would be valued.

Take it easy!

Murray LeePoetry Live MC

Poetry Live August 18th

Tonight is the one you've all been waiting for - the launch of Live Lines 2, the annual publication of Poetry Live.

Those who have been included in this issue are invited to take the open mic stand and read their poems and some others - 5 mins per poet. There will be no guest musician in case the list of readers is nice and long :)

To put you all in the mood though, we have Georgina Monro as our guest poet. Georgina comes to us all the way from Titirangi, Waitakere, has a Dip. Drama from Toi Whakaari, and took second place at the Going West Poetry Slam 2008 as well as being a finalist for Poetry Idol in 2009. So come along and enjoy her poetry!

Renee - MC

Copies of Live Lines #2 will be on sale. They make excellent Chrissy presents, for those out there who have forethought. Live Lines #2 raises funds for Live Lines #3.

Submissions are now open for Live Lines #3. You can submit to Live Lines #3 if you read at Poetry Live during 2009. Submissions are open until September 30th.

You can submit 3-5 poems in hard copy to Poetry Live on Tuesday nights or by posting them to 16 Millais Street, Grey Lynn.

We no longer try to include a poem from everyone. Send your best work.