Friday July 27th is National Poetry Day.

To celebrate this very special day Phantom Billstickers will be putting 2000 A1 street-posters featuring poems

throughout New Zealand. Look for them on a poster site near you.

Poets you can expect to see featured include:

Tusiata Avia, Hinemoana Baker, Janet Frame, Frankie McMillan, Marty Schofield, Simone Kaho,

Nicola Easthope, Bill Direen, Richard Langston, Jay Clarkson, Kelly Ana Morey, Kirsten Warner, Sandra Bell,

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Nau mai, haere mai, ka nui nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa, nga hoa aroha o Aotearoa me nga tuhinga whiti o reira.

Translation from Maori: A warm welcome to all poetry lovers and friends of New Zealand.

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This was to be my final poster run before leaving the USA on my way back to New Zealand.  I'm writing this some months afterwards and so I can't even remember which poem posters I was carrying, but there would have been about ten different Kiwi poets involved and two or three Americans.

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When Jim Wilson asked if I’d put a few posters up locally, I’m sure he thought I’d go to bookstores, the library, coffeeshops, the usual intellectual stuff. Well, here in Gainesboro, Tennessee, there is a bookstore… sort of. A used book store, but apparently it’s a used book museum because it’s never open. So, as usual in such an out-of-the-mainstream area, we did things a little differently.

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shut YOURSELF up - and LISTEN

by dYLAN kEMP

how else will they learn

to talk?

learn to sing?

learn to shout, be herd

above the rabble and

dazzle of trucks and

enormous people?

with flashing lights and

TV and self-importance?

how DARE we tell

CHILDREN to be QUIET? 

BUY THIS POETRY POSTER

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New York City, July 2011.

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This was an entirely agreeable poster run which took place over three or four days and featured a dozen Kiwi poets: Hinemoana Baker, Stephen Oliver, David Eggleton, Jay Clarkson, Aroha Harris, Becky Woodall, James K. Baxter, Bill Direen, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Serie Barford, Sonja Yelich and Selina Tusitala Marsh.

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procession of the virgins

I’ve got a tower of Marys no wives

will take from me I dress them in blue

strong sons who marrow my bones with

the tenor and bass of a hundred open throats

my Mary-sons a devotion of doves

I kiss their foreheads one and two

one and two I kiss their foreheads

they hoist me onto their shoulders

they are a submarine an undermining

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inane

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