2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards

Posted by Nelson Public Libraries on 28 July 2011

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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