Mer Made!

I am delighted to have been invited by Marissa Johnpillai to read as a guest poet at the event Mer Made, to be held at Christchurch's Beat Street Cafe, on the cnr of Barbadoes and Armagh Streets, on Thursday December 16 at 8 pm.

Here's the "gen"—but I think this may just be a "be there or be square" event!

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Mer Made

(because the earth is 80% water)

oceans, islands & merfolk

spin words & play music

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The Cracks in Everything lap songs by Nikki BERRY

onto the shores of poems by

Tusiata AVIA

Jania GALLETLY

Helen LOWE

Danielle O'HALLORAN

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which, of course, leads to a whirlpool of

Tamara SMITH & Sum SURAWEERA —

the Flutation and Percussion from Mundi,

ripplin ,over^under_through~ lyrics by Marissa JOHNPILLAI —

the Buoy from Elsewhere