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Montana Poetry Day is on Friday 18 July 2008.
Christchurch City Libraries helps you find out about poets and poetry - in print and online. We connect you with resources and organisations that will help you learn about poetry and how to write and get it published.
Poets and Poetry in our collection
- Poetry
- listing of sites from Christchurch City Libraries Internet Gateway including New Zealand poetry and Poems - Collections and Anthologies.
- Māori Poetry
- Māori poetry in the Christchurch City Libraries catalogue.
- New Zealand Poetry
- New Zealand poetry in the Christchurch City Libraries catalogue.
- Sound recordings of poetry
- Hear poets and others recite poetry.
- Poems on Pulse
- Poems submitted by Pulse readers.
- Karlo Mila
- Auckland based poet Karlo Mila is heading to Christchurch in September for the Writers Festival. Read our interview with her and listen to her poem "Inside us the dead".
- James Norcliffe
- An interview with poet/author James Norcliffe about writing poetry.
- Denis Glover
- Information about poet Denis Glover as part of our Canterbury Writers series.
- Landfall in Unknown Seas
- About the poem by Allen Curnow narrated with incidental musicby Douglas Lilburn.
Poetry Resources
- New Zealand Poetry Society
- Organisation advancing education by promoting, developing and supporting poetry and poets in New Zealand. Site includes Poetry links to New Zealand poetry journals, NZ and international writing resources.
- Poetry Archive
- Listen to contemporary poets reading their own work. Also included is a wealth of background material on each poet and some filmed interviews.
- Pulse Poetry Resources
- Get help with homework and school projects from these web sites.
- Poetry links
- from the New Zealand Poetry Society - New Zealand poetry journals, NZ and international writing resources.
- New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
- Electronic gateway to poetry resources in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific region. Based in the University of Auckland it aims to coordinate existing archival and publishing information, and to present some full-text electronic publication of poetry and commentary in consultation with authors and their publishers.
Your poetry - Getting published
- Poems on Pulse
- Poems submitted by Pulse readers - you can submit your poems.
- Getting Published
- Information from the New Zealand Poetry Society.
- Publishers
- Listing of New Zealand publishers.
Poetry groups and events in Christchurch and Canterbury
- Poetry Groups in Christchurch
- Groups in Christchurch who get together to study, write and perform poetry. From Community Information Christchurch (CINCH).
- Christchurch poetry events
- Listing from the New Zealand Poetry Society of Christchurch poetry events.
- Catalyst
- Catalyst is a literary journal that publishes poetry, prose, fiction, experimental works, song lyrics, script/screenplay excerpts as well as visual art and spoken word. It is produced by Neoismist Press in Lyttelton. It runs a Poetry Open Mic on the first Thursday of every month at the Wunderbar, Lyttelton.
- Takahe Magazine
- Magazine that appears three times a year and publishes short stories, poetry and art by established and emerging writers and artists as well as essays and interviews (by invitation), and book reviews in these related areas.
