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The Octagon Poetry Collective welcomes you to our next monthly reading - Wednesday June 10th! Featured guests for this month are Jilly O'Brien and Te Awhirēinga Heperi, plus our Jackson as MC.We will run our usual open mic, so please bring one poem if you wish to read, and see Mac on the night to sign up.
Attendance is FREE, but if you have the means please support our co-hosts by purchasing refreshments during the evening.
We are a hate-free zone and decry any bigotry, hate speech, transphobia, homophobia, or racism - bring only your creativity and community spirit.
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Te Awhirēinga Heperi is a Māori/Pasifika (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Hāmoa) writer. Her work spans poetry and spoken word, shaped by lived experience, cultural grounding, and a commitment to telling the truth. Te Awhirēinga's voice speaks to the realities of being young and Māori, and to the ongoing legacy of resistance, from the whenua to the written word.
Te Awhirēinga writes to invoke change, delegitimise the complicit, and uplift indigenous communities.
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Jilly O'Brien is from Ōtepoti Dunedin. Her poems have been published in literary journals and anthologies, and on a bench down Vogel Street plus the backs of parking tickets. She writes in English and sometimes in Scots, and last year won the Wigtown Poetry Prize, the Monica Taylor Poetry prize, and was second in the Robert Burns International Poetry Competition.
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Your Collective committee:
Jackson
Mac MacDonald
Jasmine Taylor
Nicola Thorstensen
Ben Wilmot
Sophia Wilson
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Event Venue
New Athenaeum Theatre, 23 The Octagon, Dunedin Central, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand, Dunedin
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