Events

Scorpio Books and Auckland University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts by Anna Jackson. Part autobiography of thought, part philosophical tract, part poetics, a book about chickens and family and seasons, Terrier, Worrier is a literary sequence to be relished as language and as […]

Scorpio Books and Ghostcat invite you to join us for the celebration of Ghosts On Every Corner, the exhibition publication of the eponymous project. Four years of detailed research and meticulous work in miniature has gone into creating scale models of thirteen iconic pre-earthquake Christchurch buildings for Ghosts on Every Corner, a project by Ghostcat […]

Scorpio Books and Otago University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Touch Screen by Philip Armstrong. In this absorbing collection the poet dismantles this now ubiquitous term and helps us see its component parts afresh – ‘touch’ and ‘screen’ strangely reconfigured in today’s complex technological world. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send […]

Scorpio Books and Te Herenga Waka University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Sick Power Trip by local poet Erik Kennedy. These are poems that tell us: the world is unwell, and sometimes writers are, too. Kennedy scrutinises the broken social contract and the dangerous actors who seem determined to dominate us. He […]