We are very excited to be co-hosting this workshop with environmental spokesperson and Green Party MP, Lan Pham! This workshop is open to everyone and will be focussed on the subject of water: its preciousness and our need to protect it. Come along to Meeting Room 2 at Te Rauparaha Arena, Porirua on Sunday 21 […]
Paula Green has written a lovely review of Potluck: Poems about food for NZ Poetry Shelf. You can also listen to some of our writers reading their poems aloud and find out what makes Potluck “A culinary and poetry delight.” Don’t forget that the submissions for our next anthology on the theme of water are […]
Landing Press’s new project for 2026: an anthology of poems about WATER! Water is a wide-reaching topic that wraps around the whole of life. There are so many ways to think about water – in memory, rituals and beliefs, as an environment – including the animals that live within and by it – as a […]
Saturday, 21 March: Potluck is about the enjoyment of food and the celebration of food, but it’s also about food difficulties, and lack of food. Several poets wrote about Gaza. Some of these poets will join others at a very special and timely ‘Potluck Poetry for Peace’ session on Saturday afternoon as part of the Carterton Peace Festival, in […]
Sunday, 15 March, 4 – 5pm: Enjoy a great mix of Potluck poets and their poems at St Peter’s Village Hall, Paekākāriki. The poems come with a slice of cake – that’s a great mix! Paekākāriki Event Flyer More events to come! Recent events Wednesday, 25 February, 12.30 – 1.15pm: Catch Wellington Potluck poets for a special session at Unity […]
On Sunday 9 November we celebrated the launch of Potluck and the 10th Anniversary of Landing Press. Sushil Ravikumar, a local Wellington chef and acclaimed restaurateur, introduced our new food themed anthology at Johnsonville Community Centre to over 90 attendees. Afterwards we had a proper potluck feast with some of the food mentioned in the […]
Thank you to everyone who came along to our Great Landing Press ‘Food for thought’ Quiz last weekend. Newtown Community Centre was filled to capacity with entripid quizzers. Pictured below is the winning team with part of the mountain of food that was donated for the social supermarket at the Wellington City Mission.
Here is a charming sketch by Claire Clark of the poetry reading at the Tbay café on Sunday 27 April. It was a celebration of Tītahi Bay beach, with poems by Adrienne Jansen (from Roll & Break, Landing Press 2025) and by Janie Walker, reading from Flock of Swimmers. Tbay café is a very popular […]
Here’s Landing Press’s new project for 2025: an anthology of poems about FOOD! We love the idea of poems about food. There are so many ways to think about food – culture, history, memory, rituals, celebrations, growing, foraging, hunting, fishing … there’s a long list. There’s also, particularly at present with the rising cost of […]
Not so long ago, we conducted a survey on the process of editing poetry for the anthology Now and Then: poems about generations. Inspired by the results, we discussed the subject further in this article picked up by NZ Poetry Shelf: Editing poetry: Is there an imbalance?
