Book Launch | The Companion to Volcanology by Brent Kininmont

Name: Book Launch | The Companion to Volcanology by Brent Kininmont
Start: 2025-04-10T18:00:00+12:00
Location: Unity Books Wellington

Schedule

Thu, 10 Apr, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+12:00

Location

Unity Books Wellington | Wellington, WG

Please join Te Herenga Waka University Press for the launch of Brent Kininmont's second poetry collection, The Companion to Volcanology. Brent's daughter Hana will launch the book, and there will be readings from Brent (here in Aotearoa from Japan) and a line-up of local poets including Leah Dodd, Jackson McCarthy, and more to be announced.
⛰️ Thursday 10 April, 6pm
🌋 Unity Books Wellington
⛰️ All welcome!
The Companion to Volcanology is not a field guide to volcanoes. But tectonic shifts are present in Brent Kininmont’s second book of poetry, and so are companions. The child, for instance, carried up a mountain in the titular opening poem, and companions alive to the brevity of their time together.
Kininmont, who grew up in Aotearoa, has lived in Japan for many years, and so these poems are of a life between two places and of the body in anxious or joyful motion.
About the author: Brent Kininmont is from Ōtautahi Christchurch and now lives in Tokyo. A former journalist, he leads seminars in intercultural communication. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and his poems have appeared widely in Aotearoa, including in three editions of Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems. His first book of poetry was Thuds Underneath (2015).