Poetry Cafe November
Hello poetry lovers.
Get along to our last official Poetry Cafe and try to win our grand prize of $100 for best poem. We go out with a bang! Guest for November's Monday 12 meeting at Cruz will be Tim Jones. Tim will be supported by Shayne 'Hurricane' Wills & Paul 'Boggy' Bognuda.
Tim Jones lives in Wellington. He is the author of one collection of short
fiction Extreme Weather Events, 2001 and two collections of poetry Boat
People, 2002 and All Blacks' Kitchen Gardens, 2007; all published by
HeadworX. His second short story collection, Transported, will be
published by Random House New Zealand in 2008.
All Blacks' Kitchen Gardens includes Tim's poem "The Translator", which
was included in Best New Zealand Poems 2004, and poems which have been
published in the Listener, North & South, New Zealand Books, JAAM, and a
number of other venues, including US and Australian magazines.
The poems in the book range all the way from Southland to Iraq, from a
backyard telescope to Mars, from the Rapture to rugby league. Along the
way, there's love, sex, children, and Motorhead. These poems are full of
surprises. To quote one of them, "Summoning":
You never know.
That is the truth of every incantation.
You never know
what will come to the flame.
When he's not writing, Tim works as an editor and in various web-related
roles. His other interests include cricket, music, long walks around
Wellington's hills, and making New Zealand a more sustainable and peaceful
country. For more on Tim and his writing, see
http://users.actrix.co.nz/timjones
fiction Extreme Weather Events, 2001 and two collections of poetry Boat
People, 2002 and All Blacks' Kitchen Gardens, 2007; all published by
HeadworX. His second short story collection, Transported, will be
published by Random House New Zealand in 2008.
All Blacks' Kitchen Gardens includes Tim's poem "The Translator", which
was included in Best New Zealand Poems 2004, and poems which have been
published in the Listener, North & South, New Zealand Books, JAAM, and a
number of other venues, including US and Australian magazines.
The poems in the book range all the way from Southland to Iraq, from a
backyard telescope to Mars, from the Rapture to rugby league. Along the
way, there's love, sex, children, and Motorhead. These poems are full of
surprises. To quote one of them, "Summoning":
You never know.
That is the truth of every incantation.
You never know
what will come to the flame.
When he's not writing, Tim works as an editor and in various web-related
roles. His other interests include cricket, music, long walks around
Wellington's hills, and making New Zealand a more sustainable and peaceful
country. For more on Tim and his writing, see
http://users.actrix.co.nz/timjones
