Common Ground spoken word feat. David Eggleton, Regan Stokes

hester ullyart's COMMON GROUND spoken word / kā tūka toikupu

we're back!

JULY 28 (always last sunday / rātapu of the month)

#13 feat. DAVID EGGLETON, REGAN GRAHAM KUPU STOKES & AMY GRACE (music)

David Eggleton is a poet and writer of Palagi, Rotuman descent based in Dunedin. He has published a number of poetry collections, and has also released a number of recordings with his poetry set to music by a variety of musicians and composers. He is the former Editor of Landfall and Landfall Review Online as well as the Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader. His poems have appeared in many recent Aotearoa New Zealand anthologies, including Whetu Moana I and II: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English, both edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. His book The Conch Trumpet won the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. In 2016, he received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry. His most recent poetry collection is Respirator: A Laureate Collection, published by Otago University Press in 2023. He was the Aotearoa New Zealand Poet Laureate between 2019 - 2021.

Regan Graham Kupu Stokes (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ingarihi) is an Ōhinehou-based pāpā, writer, kaiako reo Māori, translator and musician. He started performing poetry in Ōtautahi in 2009 and has had work published in takahē and The Quick Brown Dog. He is a graduate of the Hagley Writers' Institute and writes and performs bilingual songs for the bands HOIHOI and SWIPERS.
(and open mic, plus music act tbc)

7pm official door
7.15 start and open mic (share, listen, be welcome please come early if you want to get your name on the list as it is growing a little too large time wise some nights and I may have to start capping it, a happy problem! )
8.15 break
8.30ish re-begin, featured sets

Suggested koha $10-15 if you are able

I know times are hard for many, if you can't, no judgement
if you can, it helps to pay for time, artists, costs, & is deeply appreciated
gratitude to @sherpakai for their warm hospitality

nau mai, haere mai
bring the gifts forward!
hx

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