Guest Poet: Bob Orr
Emcee: Genevieve McClean
Music Section: by Lower Bar Collective and John McNab
Special 15 year Anniversary Dirty Wordz Session
when : Wednesday 06 March 2024
7.30 pm at the Las Vegas Club Above Bamboo Tiger
Bob Orr
BOB ORR was born in 1949 at Hoe-o-Tainui, in the Waikato. Most of his adult life was spent in Auckland, where he worked as a seafarer plying the waters of the Waitemata Harbour and Hauraki Gulf. He now lives in Kohukohu, a village on the shores of the Hokianga Harbour.
Bob has published eleven previous volumes. In 2016 he was awarded the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry and in 2017 he was the Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato. The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature comments on his 'tautly controlled imagistic lyrics, some of intense verbal beauty and force of feeling.'
Spindrift offers a generous selection of Bob's previously published work - and many new and hitherto unseen poems.
Writing a poem is like hitch-hiking-if you're lucky the muse will stop
and ask, 'How far are you going ...?
Dirty Wordz
with Lower Bar Collective and John McNab
Poetry Live! and The New Zealand Poetry Society present Dirty Wordz Sessionz - a 15 year anniversary of the original Dirty Wordz Session.
A Fusion of Spoken Word, Live Music and the spaces between
with a special anniversary session of Dirty Wordz
with participants including
Ivy Alvarez, Sophie Procter, Christian Jensen, Peter Rimmer, Kate Kelly and Sally Strangelove
Featuring live music by Lower Bar Collective
**About the Lower Bar Collective (LBC)
The LBC is an initiative based in Auckland, New Zealand - formed in 2012.
The collective specialise in atmospheric soundscapes that blend with projected images and reflective prose.
Members of the Collective include:
Malcolm Dunn (Colm)
Rob Morgan
Matt Findlay
Andrew Killick (Safe Little World)
Emcee Genevieve McClean
LAS VEGAS Club Karangahape Road
Wed 6th March
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