NATIONAL POETRY DAY will be celebrated throughout the country this Friday, 24 August. We will be marking the occasion with a poetry competition, an interactive poetry map and a live poetry swap in the shop. We will be posting poetry reviews and links on our FaceBook page all week. 

Our 2018 poetry competition: The Great New Zealand Prose Deletion.
1. Choose one page of New Zealand published prose.
2.  Make 2 copies of the page.
3.  On one copy, delete (perhaps using a marker pen) or erase (perhaps using white-out) everything you don’t want in your poem.
4.  Your poem is what remains.
5.  Send us both copies by this Monday 20 August. 
The winner will be announced at VOLUME at 2 PM on 24 August and will receive a trophy and a copy of the 2018 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. >> Download a poster. 

The Nelson Poetry Map records and shares connections between poetry and places. Contribute poems to our open-access map, tagged to the locations you associate with those poems. Visit the locations and read the poems on your mobile device (or to take a virtual tour without leaving home). It is anticipated that wandering poetry readers on National Poetry Day (24 August) will encounter fellow poetry readers at various locations. >> Click here to read or contribute. >> Download a poster.

The Poem Swap. VOLUME. Friday 24 August, 2 PM. Bring a poem > Put your poem in the hat > Draw out a poem > Read the poem aloud > Take the poem home! See you on Friday.

Other National Poetry Day events in Nelson:
Poetry Fridge Door: Share poems all week on the 'fridge' at the Nelson Public Library.
Poetry Brick: An installation of poems by David Merritt at The Hollow and other places.
Open Mic Poetry: Nelson Public Library, Halifax Street. Friday 24 August, 12 noon - 1 PM.
See what else is happening around the country.