Lambing Season - Poetry Reading

Name: Lambing Season - Poetry Reading
Start: 2025-08-15T17:15:00+1200
End: 2025-08-15T19:30:00+1200
Location: Spark Place, Tūranga, Christchurch Central Library

Fri, 15 Aug, 5:15pm - 7:30pm NZST

Spark Place, Tūranga, Christchurch Central Library

Christchurch, New Zealand

Canterbury Poets' Collective

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Canterbury Poets’ Collective Lambing Season

They may be lambs, but these young Canterbury poets are shaking tales and getting noticed! The Canterbury Poets’ Collective brings you LAMBING SEASON, showcasing some of the best Canterbury poets under-25 to celebrate National Poetry Day this year.

Feature Poets – COOPER HARRIS, EDWARD GILBERT, JESSICA XU and BUGS SULLIVAN.

Plus an OPEN MIC exclusively for our under-25s.

MCed by the fabulous DAVIEN GREY!

5.15pm - sign up for open mic

5.30–6.15 – feature poets

6.30–7.30 – open mic

Thanks to our sponsors Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day and Christchurch City Libraries

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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Grounded in Canterbury and centred in Christchurch, the Canterbury Poets’ Collective run the annual CPC Poetry in Performance readings, bringing the best, most diverse list of poets in Aotearoa New Zealand to perform live alongside established and emerging local talent. Our legendary poetry open mic also offers a welcoming place for writers of all levels to test-drive new ideas and develop their art.

We were founded in 1989 by Karen McNabb, Jeffrey Harpeng and David Howard, with the aim of fostering access to, and excellence in, the art of poetry.

Our annual Poetry in Performance readings series began in 1990, and has continued every year despite earthquakes, fires, and Covid 19. It is the longest-running poetry reading series in Aotearoa New Zealand.

While the readings are a central part of what we do, the CPC also takes local poets on tours to other centres, plays mentor-matchmakers, publishes anthologies of work from the open mic, and in 2021/22 launched the John O’Connor Award – a biannual manuscript competition for the best first collection by a local writer.

Poetry is what sustains us
when nothing else makes sense.

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Fri, 15 Aug, 5:15pm - 7:30pm NZST

Spark Place, Tūranga, Christchurch Central Library

Christchurch, New Zealand

Hosted by Canterbury Poets' Collective