Raewyn
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"See more of this assemblage work at Botany Trade Aid, soon."
Female
101 years old
Auckland
New Zealand
Last Login:
5/20/2008
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| General | Nuts 'n' Bolts Poetry Workshop next in summer 2008 or 2009 and Magazine Six submissions have closed, we have the best work ever for this issue. We send you Magazine if you like, simply ask for details. Bright Spark Books published my last poetry collection, Grey Lynn Land of Bright Stars for the Overload Poetry Festival in Melbourne -- I performed there again, August 2007 with some excellent poets and musicians. -- Books available in Melbourne, Collected Works Bookshop 37 Swanston St., Melbourne, and have now sold out in Auckland, (two runs - thanks everyone).
Magazine Issue Five, (Utu, Justice), launched 11th November 2007 and the Magazine myspace has some arty blurry pictures. www.myspace.com/themagazinecalledmagazine Reduce carbon footprint with reading. -- www.overloadpoetry.com/ Thanks to Honeyweather and Speight, Melbourne's best toy shop, 113 Barkly St., St. Kilda -- www.honeyweatherandspeight.com.au/ LOVE YAH and pats to Flash.
http://nzpoetsonline.homestead.com/RAlex21.html
New Blackmail Press (21) launched recently, excellent to see so many poets read at the Auckland City Library. | | Music | Grime stuns me at times, (UK Garage music) and also, I hear Salome the opera in Auckland lately was excellent. Anyone wants to take me to the next one, La Boheme I think it is, go ahead. Old faves - Mozart, Public Enemy, Lou Reed, The Finn Brothers, Queens of the Stone Age, Eminem, Patti Smith, Bowie, My Chemical Romance, Neil Young, Dylan, Che Fu and the Krates, opera generally, AC DC, Elvis, The Clash, REM, Diamanda Galas, Danielle Dax, Nina Hagen, Chris Knox, Iggy Pop, Marc Bolan, The Chills, The Clean, Leonard Cohen, The Supremes, Louis Armstrong... | | Movies | I'm Not There is a stunning film, loved it.
I used to watch about ten a week when a certain someone brought home tons of DVDs, now not so many but there's a list longer than my life probably. Off the top of my head - anything by Lynch, Scorsese, Altman, Fellini, Vincent Ward, Tarantino and many more. I liked The Lost recently at the film festival, The Lost is one of my friends now. Scary but oddly true, too in all its noirness. NZ SHORT FILMS - they should have one before every major film here, to get people to get into the cinema and watch the ads. GO GET THIS GOING ON, heh. Enjoyed Aphrodite's Farm recently, and the cast is great, director has a fresh, fine vision, family member in the film did a fine job, as did the writer and crew.
http://www.conbrio.co.nz/shorts_conbrio.html | | Television | I like TV, so whaddayahgonnadoaboutit?
In fact, I'd like to write for TV. My latest book would make an excellent series and soon I will pitch it to someone.
Oh yes.
Otherwise I like - Boston Legal, Sunday Night Theatre, Antiques Roadshow, Shortland Street (it makes life seem so like it could make sense), Te Karere, TV3 News, Oprah, Ellen, The Flight of the Conchords, Outrageous Fortune and Wife Swap UK and USA. | | Books | Oh yes, the book pile grows weekly, and I bought a huge new bookcase. Reading this great book now, Alternative Medicine by Laura Solomon. Recently read A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers, by Xiaolu Guo. I used to find an author and read everything they wrote, like Graham Greene, Janet Frame, Dickens, Austen and so on, now I am more haphazard but Annie Proulx is good, and Lloyd Jones, Stephanie Johnson, Chad Taylor, Don de Lillo, I LOVE Peter Carey, I wish he wrote a book every week...but then I just read one of his I find too odd, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith. Lots of poetry books too, and I love history and historical novels, also science books and anything about quantum physics, written well. | | Heroes | My parents, my children, my siblings, my grand-parents and forebears, mothers and fathers, people who reduce waste and carbon emissions, Florence Nightingale, Al Gore, Helen Clark, Chris Knox, Patti Smith, Genevieve McClean, Cornelius Stone, Olivia Macassey, Bain Duigan, Jack Ross, The Eye Street Poets, Poetry Live Auckland New Zealand, The Waikato River, Overload Poetry Festival Melbourne, Jan Nigro the painter, Janet Charman the poet, Vivienne Plumb the writer, Beryl Fletcher the writer too, Minnie Cooper Shoes, Honeyweather and Speight, Unitec School of Communication, June Sparkle the photographer, journalists who work to find out the truth, all writers, artists and musicians who produce good work, Zeitgeist in Grey Lynn and Ben who makes such delicious cakes, my cat Belladonna, our dog Mango, people who reduce their carbon footprint without grizzling ...
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About me:
This profile was edited with mywickedspace.com Editor
Rock star in a poet's body, writer, editor and communication consultant
living in Auckland, New Zealand.
---------> www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/alexanderraewyn.html
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Who I'd like to meet:
People who say thank-you, please. Also, those who employ me to do the work I do so well, oh yeeaah, and pay the same with a good grace.
Those who will not disappoint me, most of the time.
Great publishers and excellent editors, along with the fine people who promote and sell my work.
No one really I just want to stay at home and have fun, planting raspberries and brussel sprouts. *laughs.*
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