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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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.