Live, direct and eclectic. Spoken word and poetry readings from new works "They Crackle in the Rain" by Ciaran Fox and "dusk & us" by Annabel Wilson.

With special guests.

They Crackle in the Rain

(The Republic of Oma Rāpeti Press, 2023)

A poetry collection 20 years in the making – interrupted (and informed) by parenthood, earthquakes, pestilence ... and a day job.

They Crackle in the Rain represents a two decades-long time-lapse through a life both imagined and real in which no experience is left untouched by dream and longing, hope and regret. Death is an ache in the bones and an echo of dance steps, while love wins temporary, chaotic victories …

dusk & us

(Ghost City Press, 2024)

"They stayed up late, cataloguing moths. Pūriri: ghost moth.
Emperor, Brown Plume. Things they thought about saying
would not be said, yet — this velvet night, frosted with stars..."

Like those mystical moments just before nightfall, Annabel Wilson's micro chapbook dusk & us attends to liminal spaces of longing and loss, transience and transformation. A literary noisette.