This Evening With Canterbury Poets: Joanna Preston, Owen Marshall, & Tusiata Avia

I have been very much enjoying the Canterbury Poets’ Collective’s spring season of poetry readings over the past six weeks. The Open Mic readings have been of consistently high quality and we’ve had a programme of great guests as well—but with Joanna Preston, Owen Marshall, and Tusiata Avia as tonight’s featured poets, I feel that the quality is set to continue.

Just to give you a “thumbnail” introduction to each poet:

Joanna Preston won both the inaugural Kathleen Grattan Award (New Zealand) 2...