2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards
Posted by Nelson Public Libraries on 28 July 2011
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Poetry,
2011 New Zealand Post Book of the Year Awards
Nelson Public Libraries congratulates the winners of the 2011 New Zealand Post Book of the Year Awards.
The overall winner
Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964 by Chris Bourke.
The other winners
Fiction Award winner
The Hut Builder by Laurence Fearnley (Penguin Group (NZ).
Poetry Award winner
The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls by Kate Camp (Victoria University Press).
Illustrated Non-fiction Award winner
The Passing World: The Passage of Life: John Hovell and the Art of Kowhaiwhai by Damian Skinner (Rim Books).
National Poetry Day
In association with the New Zealand Post Book of the Year Awards National Poetry Day was celebrated at the Elma Turner Library on 22nd July. Local poets brought their own poems to this event. Some of these poems follow:
HAIKU
Locked beneath the ice
Ghostly orange rippling
Carp dreaming of spring
MACLEAN
NOT JUST BEADS
It knows how to rain in Golden Bay
not poncy beads that lie on glass
to glisten in the morning
but with a hundred hooves
that pound above my head
filling the night with wild drumming
I smile into the dark
wrapped in a quilt
of remembered childhood
CAROL DON ERCOLANO
