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Book Launch | Hotel Theresa

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Wed 13th November 2024 | 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Free

Scorpio Books

120 Hereford Street
Christchurch, New Zealand

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Scorpio Book and Cold Hub Press warmly invite you to the launch of Hotel Theresa by Doc Drumheller. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today!


ABOUT THE BOOK

The Hotel Theresa is a landmark in Harlem, New York City, where legendary figures like Josephine Baker, Duke Ellington, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali made their New York stay-overs. After visiting this iconic hotel, poet Doc Drumheller was inspired to write and collect poems based on his travels, exploring the world as a dual citizen of New Zealand and the USA.

The poems in this collection were composed on his journeys in New Zealand, and throughout the USA, Asia, Europe, and Central America, where he has represented New Zealand at numerous international poetry festivals as a poet and cultural ambassador. The individual poems have been published in prestigious magazines and anthologies in New Zealand and around the world, translated into many languages, and received awards and honours from several international universities. Hotel Theresa features seventy of the published poems from more than one hundred composed between 2011 and 2024.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Doc Drumheller is an award-winning poet, musician, dramatist, who has published 11 collections of poetry. His poems have been translated into more than 20 languages. He is the editor and publisher of the New Zealand literary journal Catalyst. He was elected to represent New Zealand on the Executive Board of the World Congress of Poets, and is the editor in chief of the World Congress of Poets literary journal Fuego. He has represented New Zealand at international poetry festivals all over the world, and has performed in Cuba, Lithuania, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Japan, India, China, Nicaragua, USA, Mexico, El Salvador, Ecuador, and widely throughout NZ.

His previous collection, Drinking With Li Bai, 100 Haiku from China and India, was published, with a memorable launch at Scorpio Books, by Cold Hub Press in 2022.

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