Claire Lacey is an award-winning Canadian poet who currently resides in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Their poetry explores the embodied experience of living with brain injury, politics, the environment, and the absurdity of it all.

Claire is the author of Twin Tongues and Selkie. Their poetry has appeared in publications including Landfall, 1964 and takahē. Claire's work has also been included in the anthologies Impact! Women Writing After Concussion, and Cumulus: An Anthology of Skies.

Claire has performed across Canada, in England, and all over the South Island. Join them for their first Auckland appearance!

Free entry. Event is upstairs.
Books for sale at Time Out Bookstore.

Si'oto'ofa 

Come join us to celebrate the launch of Simone Kaho's poetry book HEAL!.
You'll be treated to readings from poets Tulia Thompson, Serie Barford, and of course, Simone Kaho.
Books will be for sale at the event and Simone will be signing them.

Light food and kai will be provided.

Wrap up your weekend with a poetry reading featuring an effervescent and refreshing six-pack of poets: Lily Holloway, Nathan Joe, Chris Tse, Angela Zhang, with more to be announced.

Two exciting new books were released during level 4 lockdown that never got a proper chance to breathe.

LOCALS ONLY (Compound Press) by Craig Foltz is a road trip with each poem taking you to a place in New Zealand, “filtered through the imagined lenses of the people who would be most familiar with it.”

The Lifers (Otago University Press) by Michael Steven moves through the undercurrents of neo- liberal New Zealand, echoing with voices of the dead, dejected, and forgotten.

Join us for a reading and a proper launch to destinations not found in the drivers atlas.

THIS EVENT IS SADLY CANCELLED.

A book launch in Auckland to celebrate the latest AUP New Poets release, featuring readings and refreshments!

Ben Kemp
Vanessa Crofskey
Chris Stewart
Anna Jackson

Plus others to be announced

In stores now:

Post-it notes and shopping lists, Japanese monks and children's lungs: AUP New Poets 6 is a deep dive into the rich diversity of New Zealand poetry today. Relaunched under the editorship of Anna Jackson in 2019, AUP New Poets 6 features substantial selections from the poetry of BenKemp, Vanessa Crofskey and Chris Stewart. We shift from Kemp's slow-paced attentive readings of place and people in a selection moving between Japan and New Zealand, to the velocity of Vanessa Crofskey's fierce, funny, intimate and political poetry, which takes the form of shopping lists, Post-it notes, graphs, erasures, a passenger arrival card and even "poetry", and finally to Chris Stewart's visceral take on the domestic, the nights cut to pieces by teething, the gravity of love and the churn of time. AUP New Poets 6 is an arresting introduction to the rich diversity of contemporary New Zealand poetry.

All Tomorrow’s Poets is an annual Time Out event showcasing new and diverse voices in New Zealand poetry.
This year’s event will be an exploration of the multitudinous human stories that weave the social fabric of Aotearoa.

Feat:
Vanessa Crofskey
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
Simone Kaho
Cait Kneller
Courtney Sina Meredith

We welcome you to join us upstairs for an intimate evening of poetry with snacks and BYO wine and beer!
$5 donation (zine included!) is distributed amongst our poets.

All welcome; we advise children be accompanied by an adult or guardian.

No RSVP required, but please email any questions to Suri at books@timeout.co.nz.

Feat: Tayi Tibble, Sam Te Kani, Jamie de Jong, Makanaka Tuwe, Janna Tay and Selina Ershadi.

Join us for our 5th installment of All Tomorrow's Poets on NZ National Poetry Day! Embracing new and emerging voices, cutting-edge poetry and multi-disciplinary approaches, All Tomorrow's Poets brings together a community of writers, readers and makers to celebrate burgeoning New Zealand talent and new movements in poetry. 

BYO wine and beer
$5 entry (includes zine)
No RSVP required

Art Nahill is a poet, doctor, and teacher. Stu Bagby is an award-winning poet and editor who began writing poetry while working as a gravedigger on the North Shore.

They will be reading from their recently published collections. Nahill's Murmurations, which Glenn Colquhoun says “throbs with the music of human thought" and Bagby's Pockets of Warmth, Stu’s fourth collection, which deals with kin and place. 

RSVP here.