Hamilton Poetry Day
Friday 22 August 2014
We are delighted to have Paula Green with us in Hamilton during National Poetry Day this year. Paula is an Auckland based reviewer, anthologist, poet, children’s author and blogger.
She has published eight poetry collections including several for children, a chapter book and a sophisticated picture book. Co-written with Harry Ricketts, her book 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry was short-listed for the 2010 NZ Post Book Awards. In 2012, she edited Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems.
Paula runs two blogs: NZ Poetry Box and NZ Poetry Shelf.
Click on these to read some of Paula’s poems and find out more about her books:
http://nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com
Her latest poetry collection is The Baker’s Thumbprint (Seraph Press), and she has two children’s books out this year—The Letter Box Cat and other poems (Scholastic) and A Treasury Of New Zealand Poetry for Children (Random House).
The Letter Box Cat and other poems has illustrations by Miles Lawford, (Scholastic, due August 2014). This new collection of children’s poems includes picture poems and has a Dr Seuss feel.
A Treasury Of New Zealand Poetry for Children has illustrations by Jenny Cooper (Random House, due October 2014). This anthology includes poems from New Zealand’s best loved children’s authors and poets, across time and place, with a range of styles and subject matter. It also includes twenty poems by children.
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