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

28 April 2026 Guest Poet: Doug Poole Doug Poole is a poet, as well as the creator, editor and publisher of online poetry journal blackmail press . His poetry has been widely published in online and print journals and in anthologies, including Landfall, Hawaiian Review and Trout. Of his work he says, ‘The enduring theme of my poetry and ongoing manuscript of Pouliuli [his collection of Samoan poems], is the expression of being Samoan and Afakasi. It is central to me as a poet

7:30 pm Tuesday 14 April 2026 Guest Poet: Anne Kennedy Guest Musician: TBC Emcee: Mikey Lim Sign up for the open mic on the night (5 mins per person). First time readers warmly encouraged. Koha collected for our special guests. Anne Kennedy's most recent books are The Sea Walks into a Wall , The Ice Shelf and, as editor, Remember Me: Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the current editor of AUP’s New Poets series. Awards include the Prime Ministe

A gorgeous night of poetry & music is on the horizon this Tues with guest poet Barbs Peterson and guest musician Emma-Kate Newlove All welcome to read/perform on our Open Mic - first time readers are warmly welcomed & encouraged Koha please for our sensational artists Tues 7th April, 7.30pm onwards at Cafe 39, Ponsonby rd https://facebook.com/events/s/poetry-live-feat-barbs-peterso/1260419986259891/ GUEST POET Dubbed "the wonky box of poets" by emcee Rhona Stace, Barbs is