SMALL BOOKS
GOING BIG PLACES

SMALL BOOKS
GOING BIG PLACES

Launch of From our hands to yours

On Wednesday 13 November, we launched from our hands to yours: poems by ESOL students at Mana College Porirua. We celebrated this book with some of the student writers in the collection and their families, and with staff from Mana College. Some students read their poems, and they launched it in style with poppers! We’re all very […]

Launch of Now and then

We launched our new anthology, Now and then, with poets both young and old and everyone in-between at the historic Public Trust hall, Wellington on the 3rd of November. Afterwards, we all celebrated with an afternoon tea of a wonderful variety of scones baked by our volunteers.

The Time Machine : Poetry through the Eras

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 […]

Roll & Break Launch

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.

Launch of Somewhere a cleaner

On Sunday 29 November we launch our new book, Somewhere a cleaner, poems by cleaners, in the Grand Hall at Parliament. What better place for the launch of this book! It will be launched by Ibrahim Omer, MP, a former refugee from war-torn Eritrea, who worked as a cleaner after arriving in New Zealand in […]

Let’s thank our cleaners!

We’re hosting a quiz night on Thank Your Cleaner Day to raise funds for Somewhere a Cleaner, our upcoming anthology of poems by cleaners and about cleaning. Don’t miss this quiz! It’s fun, and for a great cause – and you don’t have to know anything! Date: Wednesday, 21 October 2020, 6–8pm Place: Salvation Army […]

Ring of fire exhibition

More of Us poet Kumiko Jacolin is presenting her exhibition, Ring of Fire: Sentient Soul at Te Auaha Gallery from 1 September to 14 September 2020.