No Good | Book Launch

Name: No Good | Book Launch
Start: 2025-08-14T08:00:00+12:00
Location: The Open Book

Schedule

Thu, 14 Aug, 2025 at 08:00 am

UTC+12:00

Location

The Open Book | Auckland, AU

Join us to celebrate 'No Good', the debut poetry collection by Sophie van Waardenberg.
Thursday 14 August
6pm
The Open Book
201 Ponsonby Road
Auckland
All welcome! Thanks to Anna Livesey for launching the book, and to Zephyr Zhang and Amy Marguerite for joining the line-up! Always thankful to The Open Book for hosting.
In this debut poetry collection, Sophie van Waardenberg considers girlhood and grief, love and its loss, distance and the return home, including at its heart a sequence of emotionally raw ‘Cremation Sonnets’. In its essence, this collection is the poet exploring ‘goodness’: ‘I am unbegrudging. I am the openest pair of arms’, she tells us. ‘I am a large dirty lake, a tepid naughty heart.’
About the book: https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/no-good/