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Looking back
- FAREWELL
- National Poetry Day August 21
- August Art at Mercy – Pauline Bellamy
- Poems in the Waiting Room Art wall at Mercy Hospital
- Dear Key Workers
- Autumn 2020
- 2020 Poetry Competition Results
- PitWR 2020 poetry competition
- Pocket Poetry NZ
- Spring 2019
- National Poetry Day, August 23
- PoARTry at Mercy
- Another National Poetry Day event
- Looking ahead – National Poetry Day August 23
- Winter 2019
Category Archives: Books
FAREWELL
Thank you and farewell. I’ve just finished enveloping the 50th and final edition of Poems in the Waiting Room(NZ). It’s been 13 years of gathering poems, contacting poets/publishers, editing, proofing, printing, packaging and posting the poetry cards. Times change, cellphones … Continue reading
Standing Room Only, Radio NZ National
Poems in the Waiting Room featured on Radio NZ National’s Sunday afternoon programme Standing Room Only this week. The four poets who won our 2016 poetry competition read their winning poems throughout the show. From Kapiti, Christchurch, Queenstown and Dunedin … Continue reading
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Tagged Frankie McMillan, Gill Ward, Jillian Sullivan, Radio New Zealand National, Sarah Manning
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Delicious
Why not head over to our Lilliputlibraries.wordpress.com blog and check out our delicious and delightful ‘have a look, take a book’ neighbourhood libraries.
Kisses in Store
October 31 and it’s our national Bookshop Day. We headed down to the UBS and wandered around enjoying the atmosphere, a bustling shop, children listening to stories, people conversing, authors talking to families and the staff dishing out chocolate kissses … Continue reading
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Tagged Bookshop Day, Brian Turner, David Mitchell, Michel Houellebecq, UBS Dunedin
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October news
I know Lilliput Libraries has its very own blogsite but we’re so excited about the installation of our first Lilliput we’ve tumbled over here into the PitWR blog. AND we have a new addition to our team. Click the Behind the Scenes … Continue reading
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Fracking & Hawk
Pat White is the judge for the Poems in the Waiting Room 2016 poetry competition. His latest book is Fracking & Hawk. Fracking & Hawk is published by Frontiers Press, and will be launched on 28th August, National Poetry Day, … Continue reading
Lilliput News and Thanks
A successful funding application, a visit to Cargill Enterprises, a meeting with Bunnings coming up and the Lilliput Libraries project is going ahead. Check out all the news here. To the kind person who sent an anonymous donation ‘for … Continue reading
Lilliput Libraries
After work on Wednesday I set off on a ‘begging trip’ around the local hardware stores. I was hoping to get offcuts or maybe, just maybe, convince one store to supply me with free materials so we could get the first … Continue reading
Books, on the House
The 2015 Poems in the Waiting Room (NZ) project is under way. We’re establishing little neighbourhood libraries, book boxes, or the name we’re playing with right now is, “Books, on the House”. They’ll be placed around Dunedin properties in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015 Poems in the Waiting Room (NZ) project, Books on the House
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Thanks, and News
HUGE THANKS to the person who made an anonymous donation within minutes of the last post being livened. We are so very appreciative of your generosity. The competition entries continue to flow in daily. You’ve still got time to compose a … Continue reading
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