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Christchurch: Liberating The Free Word

Local Good News/Christchurch
by Steve Carter
There’s been ‘Shaking’ and there’s been “Quaking’ … kind of lends itself to poetry, right?
Actually, there has been something of a gentle ban on earthquake doggerel at the Catalyst open-mic poetry …

All Members of Club Happyzine Go in the Draw to Win a Downloadable Copy of Redwood Reider’s Album: ‘Poetree’

Share your loose change each week and help Happyzine make inspiring media ‘normal’.  Join Club Happyzine today and go in the draw to win Rebecca Reider’s new album of social commentary poetry – ‘Poetree’!
Review:
“Her poems …

CD Review: Poetree by Redwood Reider

by Hannah Schenker.
I walked into the Mussel Inn, Golden Bay, on Live Poets night a couple of years ago, a gig I rarely attended but had been coaxed to by a new friend. On the …

Shining Light, Shaky Ground: a Poet’s Pilgrimage Through Te Wai Pounamu

By Redwood Reider
This is a story about trust. About stepping into the unknown, carrying the light and being carried by it.
I’m Redwood, he’s Rhythm. I rap poetry about the state of the world and the …

Redwood and Rhythm – Light-Carrier Tour

High energy heart rhymes, served on a bed of tasty grooves…
Performance poetree growing in an uplifting musical landscape…
Redwood & Rhythm take to the road to ignite spirit light round the South Island.
Redwood Reider, spoken words (www.myspace.com/rebeccapoetry)
Rhythm …

Ekodo: Ode to Suzanne

By Sean Weaver

When each day dawns we fall asleep
And lose again the courage to leap
Into a void that before us waits
As if guarded by a heavy gate

“It’s there to protect us” warns reason’s cry
But knowing …

Kids Help Hoiho! Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust’s Limerick Competition

As part of the Trust’s new For Kids website section the YEPT is holding a limerick competition during Seaweek, open to all students.
Kids can create a five-line limerick that describes how we can best …

Ekodo: Forest Sublime

By Sean Weaver
Have you been to a forest today?
With all senses acutely aware?
Bathed in rivers and washed your worries away?
Drawn deep the secrets of ancient green air?

Have you sat on a log wet with moss?
Have …

A Million Poems for Matariki

“Don’t worry, this light isnt’ for surveillance!” said Michele, arms outreached – stretching to find the microphone.
“It’s just so that I know where it is,” she added, her voice booming out to the crowd, strong …