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Tag: poetry
Posts tagged with poetry
A tribute to Vincent O’Sullivan (1937–2024)
By Peter Ireland
29 April 2024
Requiescat in pace, Vincent.
Outside the Library
Literary papers | A poem by James K Baxter
By Seán McMahon
22 February 2024
The story behind a spontaneous poem about Tim Shadbolt.
Collections
Ngā pukapuka hou – What’s new in the Māori Reference Collection?
By Trish Beamsley
7 February 2023
New books in the Māori Reference Collection
Collections
Poems and Papers Past
By Melanie Lovell-Smith
19 August 2022
Poems in 19th- and early 20th-century newspapers.
Collections
New Zealand National Poetry Day, 28th August 2021
By Chris Szekely
27 August 2021
Touching on the late Sir Michael Cullen's role in founding New Zealand's national Poet Laureate Award, created and cared for by the National Library of New Zealand.
Collections
Encountering Mīharo | Panoramic view of the Aratiatia Rapids
By Jiaqiao Liu
9 July 2021
Enjoy responses to the Mīharo Wonder exhibition from MA students in creative writing.
Collections
Lockdown 2020: your history, your voices
By Shannon Wellington
6 May 2020
Documenting New Zealanders daily lives during COVID-19.
Collections
Poetry and the people
By Lara Petry
26 September 2017
Auckland-based poet and educator Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh is the New Zealand Poet Laureate 2017-2019. Read how you can use poetry to inspire students across the curriculum.
Create readers
The making of: 'In the mirror, and dancing'
By Brendan O'Brien
25 August 2017
Learn more about what's involved in hand-printing C.K Stead's remarkable book of poetry.
Outside the Library
In the mirror, and dancing
By Gregory O'Brien
14 August 2017
Celebrating the publication of C.K. Stead's new book of poetry and the conclusion to his successful laureateship.
Events
Run a National Poetry Day 2017 event
By Services to Schools staff
30 March 2017
On Friday, 25 August, people around New Zealand will be celebrating Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day.
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Ars Poetica
By Fiona Oliver
26 August 2016
An ode to poems and poets.
Collections
Any excuse for some poetry
By Jeannie Skinner
22 March 2016
April is National Poetry Month in the US and with it comes all sorts of wonderful resources and promotions of poetry.
Libraries and learning
Bringing the ear, the eye, the heart and the mind to poetry creation
By Jeannie Skinner
30 July 2015
In the first week of term 3, Northland welcomed poet Paula Green. She visited and worked with some schools in Whangarei and the mid North and treated us to two fabulous SLANZA workshops at Manaia View and Oromahoe schools.
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October Mourning: A song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman
By janice
22 April 2015
Why did Matthew need to die?
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Building partnerships with Reading Together
By Janice Rodrigues
28 November 2014
In November fifty children, staff, parents and the Deputy Principal of Otahuhu School alighted from their bendy-bus at the Services to Schools centre in Auckland.
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Hundreds, no, thousands of books
By The kids of Ngaio School
17 November 2014
Pupils from Ngaio School share what they wrote after visiting the Library.
Outside the Library
Experiencing Poetry (Series)
By janice
24 September 2014
Here's a challenge to enjoy poetry.
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Blackout Poetry
By Maxine Ramsay
22 May 2014
Blackout poetry provides a whole new avenue for the creative mind to travel along.
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To wed—or not to wed?—That is the Question
By Ruth Lightbourne
13 February 2014
Spend Valentine’s Day in the arms of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
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