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Event: Gail Ingram Book Launch
Date: Thursday 25 July
Time: 5.30-7pm
Venue: Tautoru/TSB Space, Hapori | Community, Level 1
Free entry
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You are warmly invited to join Christchurch City Libraries and Pūkeko Publications to celebrate the launch of
Gail Ingram’s third collection of poetry
anthology (n.) a collection of flowers
‘.. a poetic natural history for the twenty-first century.’ Erik Kennedy
The evening will include guest poets: Erik Kennedy, Joanna Preston and Rata Ingram
Geoff Lowe playing taonga puoro
Book sales and signing

this isn't a poem

this is about a flower I didn't know this is about growing up

this is about growing into a name this is about growing

into a country this is not about growing a country this is

personal

Gail Ingram is an award-winning writer from Ōtautahi, author of three collections of poetry. Her most recent, anthology (n.) a collection of flowers (Pūkeko Publications 2024), is a beautiful genre-expanding book, including over 80 colour botanical photographs of NZ alpine flowers to accompany poems on the themes of social and natural history and the complexities of living in Aotearoa in the 21st century. Her second and third collections Some Bird (SVP 2023) and Contents Under Pressure (Pūkeko Publications 2019) were both well received and reviewed. Winner of both Caselberg and NZPS International Poetry Competitions, Gail's poetry and short fiction has appeared widely across Aotearoa and also in Australia, Africa, UK and USA. She is a creative-writing teacher, free-lance poetry editor, and managing editor for a fine line, the flagship magazine for New Zealand Poetry Society. More at https://www.theseventhletter.n...

‘Like some mountain-climbing lovechild of Janet Frame and David Attenborough, Gail Ingram’s anthology is part field guide to the plants of Aotearoa New Zealand, part personal history, and part fantastic coming-of-age-novel distilled to its essence as only poetry can.’

Joanna Preston

‘In flexible, multi-genre poems often spoken by the plants themselves, Gail Ingram shows us how the lives of our ecosystems are bound up with colonialism, art, myth, family, and love. anthology will delight with its diverse tricks and stratagems It is a poetic natural history for the twenty-first century.’

Erik Kennedy

‘Ingram’s plants might rap, or sing along to Crowded House ... Family history and secrets sit next to references to early Pākehā botanists and illustrators, [and] the symbolic use of flowers by suffragettes ... Multiple names [are] given to plants in te reo Māori, botanical Latin and vernacular English.’

Alison Glenny

Some Bird

Contents Under Pressure

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