Guest Poet: Carrie Rudzinski
Guest Musician: Tony Bullen
Emcee Aidan
when - 03 April 2024 , 7.30 pm - 11 pm
where: Bamboo Tiger, K-Road, Auckland
Carrie Rudzinski
has performed her work over the past 18 years in six countries and been featured in Bustle, HuffPost and Teen Vogue. She ranked 4th in the world at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam and won the 2019 Pussy Riot Award at Auckland Fringe.
She is the author of seven books, five spoken word albums, and is co-editor of Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP, 2023). Her poems have been published in Landfall, The Spinoff, Stasis Journal, Catalyst and Muzzle and she co-founded Auckland's JAFA Poetry Slam. Carrie is the co-creator of three poetry theatre shows - How We Survive (2019), The Bitching Hour (2023), and Hysterical (2022) - the latter of which won Best New Aotearoa Play at the Wellington Theatre Awards and Outstanding Performance Poetry at Auckland Fringe Festival.
Tony Bullen
aka “Big T” is the front man for the popular band The Dirty Tones. They are about to release their fifth album. He is a poet, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He will be performing a mixture of original songs and takes on the songs of great poets like Dylan, Reed and Bowie. He has been to quite a few Poetry Lives so you may already know him.
He is the founder and group admin for the Drunk Poets and Original Songwriters Face Book group.
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