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Explore time travel and poetry! Write poems that include 4 words from a list, then produce your poem using materials from the eras – typewriter, quill pen, charcoal, recording – your choice! Then see your work displayed in the Newtown Library. Everyone who writes a poem gets a prize, and all writers go into a […]
Our new anthology, on the theme of generations, has been a long time coming. After a book every year for seven years, we’ve given ourselves extra time on this. We’re proud of the result. And it’s gone off to the publishing team at the Whitireia Publishing Programme. Many writers sent us ideas for the title, […]
Thanks to a small printing error, we had 300 free copies of our last book, Roll & Break, to give as class sets to schools. Seven schools around the country, and a number of individuals, were very happy to receive the benefits of this printing error! Students from James Cook High School in Gisborne and […]
In 2023 we’ve run 11 workshops, where a wide range of people wrote poems on the theme of generations. We had great help with this – from Mikaela Nyman in New Plymouth, Dominic Hoey in Auckland, Bee Trudgeon at the Porirua Library, Riah Tahana-Dawson at the Wellington Newtown Library – and we had workshops in […]
It’s been a busy month. As well as the launch in Wellington, we’ve celebrated the publication of Roll & Break at both Paekakariki and at Kaizen Cafe in Porirua. Here at Kaizen, Rebecca Chester (from the Landing Press team) reads ‘Million Dollar View’, a poem which looks back to our last book, More than a […]
We launched Roll & Break in style at Te Auaha, Wellington, on 8 October, with a violin, double bass, historic film footage, and great speakers. Here James Te Puni brings Tītahi Bay (the subject of the poems) to life as he launches the book.
We’re running a special giveaway to celebrate the launch of Adrienne’s new collection of beach poems, Roll & Break. Each of the participating bookstores has one bundle of Landing Press poetry books to give away. Participating bookstores are: Unity Books Wellington: @UnityBooksWgtn PaperPlus North City: @paperplus_northcity Good Books: @goodbookshopnz Schrödinger’s Books: @petonebooks Follow Landing Press […]
Landing Press and Whitireia Publishing would like to invite you to celebrate the launch of Adrienne Jansen’s new poetry collection, Roll & Break on Saturday 8 October, 4pm. Please RSVP by October 5.
Tēnā koutou poets, friends and whānau of poets, teachers, organisers, and great poetry people Here’s Landing Press’s new project for 2022/23: an anthology of poems about generations. When we think about ‘generations’ we often think about people: grandparents, parents, children. But ‘generations’ means more than that. ‘Generations’ can be about the continuity of an idea, […]
On Saturday we launched our new poetry anthology, More than a roof. Given these uncertain COVID times, two launches were held, both at St Peters church, with afternoon teas held in their beautiful garden room. Over 120 people attended the two launches to celebrate this special book. Janie Walker MC’d the event, with a moving […]