every TUESDAY
from 7.30pm
CAFE 39 , 39 Ponsonby Road

Poetry Live! Tues 26 May Cafe 39, 39 Ponsonby Road, Auckland Guest poet: Amy Marguerite Guest musician: Crompy (James Crompton) Emcee: Rhona Amy Marguerite (she/her) is a poet and peer support worker living in Pukekohe. In 2022, she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Amy's debut collection over under fed was published by Auckland University Press in March 2025. Her essay on the new generation of Aotearoa poets features in Te

7:30pm Tuesday 12 May at Cafe 39, 39 Ponsonby Rd Guest poet: Helen Rickerby Guest musician: TBC Emcee: Mikey Lim Open Mic: you! First time readers warmly welcome. Sign up on the night. 5 mins max. Helen Rickerby lives in a cliff-top tower in Aro Valley, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. She has published five and a half collections of poetry, including the just-published My Bourgeois Apocalypse (Auckland University Press, 2026), a poetic collage-essay-memoir crafted out of (mos

Poetry Live! Tuesday 5th of May Cafe 39, 39 Ponsonby Rd, Auckland Guest poet: Michael Steven Guest musician: TBC Emcee: Rachael Naomi Michael Steven is an award-winning poet from Tāmaki Makaurau. He was recipient of the 2018 Todd New Writer's Bursary. The manuscript of his collection Night School won the 2021 Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry. He is the author of several chapbooks and the collections Walking to Jutland Street (Otago University Press, 2018), The Lifers (OUP, 2