BOOK LAUNCH AND READING with Hinemoana Baker and Alice Miller

Sat Oct 23 2021 at 06:00 pm

Hopscotch Reading Room | Berlin

Hopscotch Reading Room
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BOOK LAUNCH AND READING with Hinemoana Baker and Alice Miller
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POSTPONED! NEW DATE: OCTOBER 23RD!
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BOOK LAUNCH AND READING
with two poets from New Zealand
based in Berlin
Hinemoana Baker and Alice MIller

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Funkhaus (2020) by Hinemoana Baker

Shortlisted for the 2021 Mary and Peter Biggs Awards for Poetry
A queer / takatāpui Māori writer living in Berlin, Germany since 2015, Hinemoana Baker brings a unique perspective both to and from the ‘global North’. Drawing on the German meaning of the word ‘funken’ – to send a radio signal – her latest collection broadcasts unsettling songs of rebirth, love, friendship and alienation across homes and languages, to the living and to the dead.
Funkhaus is home to big, punchy poems and shimmering delicacy, as well as Hinemoana’s trademark humour. This book invites readers to tune out the crackle and static, and dial in their own receivers to a signal that has traveled a long way to reach them, no matter where they are.

More info:
https://vup.victoria.ac.nz/funkhaus/
www.hinemoana.co.nz/

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What Fire (2021) by Alice Miller

What Fire is about how to continue as catastrophe crawls in, when the climate crisis has its grip on us all, the internet has been shut down, and the buildings are burning up. What happens when the philosophers never arrive? What songs are still worth singing? In her third collection, Alice Miller takes a fierce, unflinching look at the world we live in, at what we have made, and whether it is possible to change.

‘Miller is a poet of concept as much as rhythm and sound, who is unafraid to stand in the naked light of artistic insufficiency, and ask her questions, and leave behind her declarations of love and goodness.’ - Juliano Zaffino

'Alice Miller takes a critical lens to our current malaise, tackling the current decline of our climate and planet to the way technology has both advanced and stunted human civilizations. A collection which feels as if it’s somehow speaking to us all.' - Anthony Anaxagorou

Alice Miller is the author of two poetry collections and a novel. Her previous collection, Nowhere Nearer (Pavilion, 2018) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and her novel, More Miracle than Bird (Tin House, 2020) was a New York Times Book Review summer reading selection. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the International Institute of Modern Letters, Alice is on the faculty of the MFA programme at Cedar Crest College. Born and raised in New Zealand, she lives in Berlin.

More info:
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
www.alicemillerauthor.com/
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Covid-Wise: The event will take place outside in our lovely hof. Please have a negative test or complete vaccination for the event. Kindly wear a mask when inside the bookshop. The bar will be open!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Hopscotch Reading Room, Kurfurstenstr. 13-14, Aufgang B, 10785 Berlin, Germany, Berlin

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