In 2023 we’ve run 11 workshops, where a wide range of people wrote poems on the theme of generations. We had great help with this – from Mikaela Nyman in New Plymouth, Dominic Hoey in Auckland, Bee Trudgeon at the Porirua Library, Riah Tahana-Dawson at the Wellington Newtown Library – and we had workshops in rest homes, for climate change activists, for Arabic-speaking women, for young people. Not all these poems made it into the anthology, so we made small books of poems for many of the workshops – because we’re not only about publishing books, we’re about including people in the world of poetry everywhere.
Women at the Arabic-speaking workshop in Porirua with Noha Khalil and Adrienne Jansen.
The kids at the Newtown workshop, with Riah Tahana-Dawson.