I'll be having a booklaunch for my latest book of poems, Tesseract, at Masterworks Gallery on Saturday 21st November (further details above). All welcome!
If you'd like to know more about the book, you might want to check out Paula Green's excellent review - which also includes a couple of sample poems, and some recordings of me reading them - on her NZ Poetry Shelf blog.
The launch is at Masterworks' splendid new premises in Canada St. It's pretty easy to find, as it's just down from the Mercury Lane entrance of Karanga-a-Hape station on the City Rail Link. Thanks again to Gallery Directors Eloise Kitson and Christine Hedlund for allowing us to share their space.
As for the book itself, it's probably easiest if I just quote from the press release sent out with the review copies earlier this year:
Summary:
Each of us is made up of stories – family stories, work stories, relationship stories – even stories about trying to buy a revolving bookcase in Paeroa … Stories, too, about the country and the world we live in.
If you put them all together, the lines begin to connect up into the shape of a life: not a simple geometric figure, but the outline of a particular location in spacetime – a line, then a square, then a cube, then finally a four-dimensional hypercube, a tesseract.
An earlier version of this, Jack Ross’s latest poetry collection, was longlisted for the Kathleen Grattan award in 2025. He’s happy to present it here with a book design and lively illustrations by 2025 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Springboard recipient, Scarlett Robinson-Kean.
Available:
Paper Table
Attention: Bronwyn Lloyd
6 Hastings Rd
Mairangi Bay
Auckland 0630
New Zealand
Website: http://papertablepress.blogspot.co.nz/
Email: bmlloyd@xtra.co.nz
RRP: $NZ40.00
[$12 per order for postage & packing within New Zealand]
We'll be offering a special launch price of $30 on this occasion, though, so you might feel like buying some extra copies for Christmas presents!
Brand design: Lisa Baudry
My booklaunch also coincides with the opening of the Christmas exhibition at Masterworks, which will include a survey of Janet Green's ceramics called Another Swan Song, as well as a surrealist tablescape, The House Opposite, featuring six women ceramic artists.
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