Nelson Arts Festival - Vincent O’Sullivan: Woollaston Poet
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| Mon 24 Oct ’11, 1:00pm |
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Where: Woollaston Estates, 243 Old Coach Road, Mahana, Upper Moutere Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
Ticket Information:
- Full: $17.00
- Early bird (closes 4 Sept): $14.00
- Booking fees may apply
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Vincent O’Sullivan is one of New Zealand’s leading writers – author of the biography of John Mulgan, several novels, and many plays, collections of short stories and poems. He has received numerous distinguished awards, residencies and fellowships, and his writing has been widely published nationally and internationally.
His most recent poetry collection, The Movie May Be Slightly Different, displays the wit, intellectual agility and arresting beauty he is renowned for.
Vincent will be introduced by Nelson poet Louise Wallace, who won the Biggs Poetry Prize in 2008, published her first collection Since June in 2009, and now teaches creative writing at NMIT.
Woollaston Estates, on the lawn or indoors if wet. Labour Day 12.30pm Take in the view, enjoy a picnic; 1pm poetry begins. Hear the poets and enjoy a complimentary glass of wine.
Page & Blackmore Readers and Writers brings authors to the Nelson Arts Festival in talks and discussions that illuminate their works and our lives.
Hear more and pay less with the Page & Blackmore Readers and Writers’ Concession – a one off payment of $60 gets you to all sessions.
Nelson Arts Festival, 7 - 24 October 2011
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