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Please join us on Wednesday March 11th for the next session of The Octagon Poetry Collective's monthly readings. Featured guests are Tim Jones and Richard Reeve, and Kay McKenzie Cooke will be MC. We will run our usual open mic, so please bring one poem if you wish to read, and see Kay 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.
Richard Reeve is the author of seven collections of poetry. With Mick Abbott, he is also co-editor of an anthology of essays on wilderness, Our Wild Heart: The Possibility of Wilderness in Aotearoa New Zealand (OUP 2011).
Two new books – a collection of poems, Fun and Games, and a poem-sequence, The Elements – are both forthcoming from Maungatua Press.
Richard was the founding editor of Glottis: New Writing and has been an editor of two issues of Landfall. In the noughties, he worked as Humanities editor for Otago University Press. He holds a Ph.D. on ‘New Zealand poetic reality’ but works as a barrister.
He lives in Warrington, to the north of Dunedin with Octavia and the cat Lionel, and has recently taken up running.
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Tim Jones is a writer, editor and anthologist who lived in Dunedin from 1976 to 1993, and now lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington.
He was awarded the NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship in 2022. He writes short and long fiction and poetry, and his recent books include climate fiction novel Emergency Weather (The Cuba Press, 2023) and his new poetry collection Dracula in the Colonies (The Cuba Press, 2025).
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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