Tag Archives: Brian Turner

Winter’s on the way

In this winter NZ poets’ edition we’re featuring the winning poems from our 2016 poetry competition. Frankie McMillan’s My mother and great aunt laughing like trees, Gill Ward’s What I forgot to steal, Jillian Sullivan’s June and Sarah Manning’s Barefoot … Continue reading

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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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Five and Twenty

No, not blackbirds BUT five birthdays and 20 editions of Poems in the Waiting Room. And we are celebrating!! Firstly, with the opening of our PoArtry exhibition Bellamys at Five on Sunday September 1 @ 5pm – Bellamys Gallery, Macandrew … Continue reading

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September 15

SAVE THIS DATE NOW! It’s our fifth birthday in September and we’re celebrating!!!! Poems in the Waiting Room presents Four Poets at “Bellamys at Five” Come along and hear Brian Turner, Emma Neale, Fiona Farrell, and Kay McKenzie Cooke read … Continue reading

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A Dunedin Day

Thursday is normally one of my days off but I owed work two hours so I popped in this morning for three – well it’s nice to have an hour up my sleeve! After leaving work I wandered along to … Continue reading

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