Book launch: SLIM VOLUME
Schedule
Wed Jul 17 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC+12:00Location
Unity Books Wellington | Wellington, WG
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All welcome to the launch of Slim Volume, a new collection of poetry by James Brown. Slim Volume will be launched by Nick Ascroft, followed by readings by Nick, Morgan Bach, Ashleigh Young, and James himself. See you on Wednesday 17 July, 6pm, at Unity Books, 57 Willis Street, Wellington.https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/slim-volume/
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A slim volume of verse, like a bicycle, offers us fresh and joyful and sometimes troubling ways of seeing the world.
James Brown’s eighth collection of poems begins in childhood and moves through education, jobs and the essential unremarkable activities that occupy our lives – before arriving in a post-apocalyptic future, where the nights run late and down to the wire. The poems are ever-alert to the minutiae of power, the thrill of the unexpected, and the shiny potential of an ending. Always compelling, funny, heartening, Brown speaks volumes even when claiming to have little to say.
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James Brown's previous poetry collections are The Tip Shop (2022), Selected Poems (2020), Floods Another Chamber (2017), Warm Auditorium (2012), The Year of the Bicycle (2006), which was a finalist in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007, Favourite Monsters (2002), Lemon (1999), and Go Round Power Please (1996), which won the Best First Book Award for Poetry. James works as an editor and teaches the Poetry Workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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Where is it happening?
Unity Books Wellington, 61 Willis St, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011, New Zealand,Wellington, New ZealandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
