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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Dead Ends by Laura Borrowdale
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the launch of Dead Ends\, an event full of stories\, not speeches. \nCome in from the cold and sit by the fire awhile as Laura Borrowdale and friends present an evening of domestic dystopias\, monster moments and beautiful books to launch her new collection of stories from Tender Press\, Dead Ends. \nFeaturing the vocal talents of Dan Bain and Josiah Morgan\, performances from Amy Leigh\, Audrey Porne\, and the musical skill of Michael Bell. \nThis is Dead Ends\, dystopian storytelling at its finest. \nScorpio books will be selling copies before and after the show. \nBook a free ticket here! \n\nABOUT THE BOOK\nIn the dark\, uncanny world of Dead Ends\, our ghosts live alongside us\, break ups come with a grisly cost\, and there really are monsters under the bed. Laura Borrowdale’s sophomore collection is full of the horrors of domestic banality\, parenting\, relationships\, and womanhood. With deft and exacting prose\, Borrowdale’s stories reflect our own lives back at us told slant\, revealing where something sinister lives just beneath the surface. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nŌtautahi Christchurch writer Laura Borrowdale is the author of a short story collection Sex\, with Animals (Dead Bird Books\, 2020). Her second collection of short stories\, Dead Ends\, is due out in 2025 with Tender Press.
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LOCATION:Little Andromeda\, Level 1/134 Oxford Terrace\, Christchurch Central City\, Christchurch\, Canterbury\, 8011\, New Zealand
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Mad Diva by Cadence Chung (Christchurch)
DESCRIPTION:Calling all divas! \nJoin us for the launch of Cadence Chung’s stunning debut full-length poetry collection\, Mad Diva. Featuring guest poet Claudia Jardine and guest singer Emily-Jane Stockman\, it promises to be an unforgettable evening! \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nIn Mad Diva\, poet Cadence Chung takes us wheeling and diving through a scintillating whirl of ideas\, experiences and imagery. Operatic in scale\, by turns lush and spare\, Mad Diva is a high-wire performance from an extraordinary emerging talent. This beautifully crafted collection confronts the chaos of life full on. The gorgeous jostles up against the grotesque. Romance and glamour have equal billing with the blood-streaked and the gritty. Scheherazade shares the back seat of a Wellington Uber; Samson’s in the bathroom getting a shave; Leilah on a plastic stage considers the history of ‘Chinamen on display’; Carmen suffers a real-life stab wound and sings the Habanera like a bat out of hell. Bejewelled\, perfumed\, mascaraed\, satin-and-silked and never shy to be brazen or camp\, the ever-unravelling divas in these poems are not interested in staying within assigned categories. In opera houses\, art galleries\, dive bars\, bedrooms; in the purple light of Whitcoulls at dusk and in Wakefield Street at midnight\, they keep on aiming for their high Cs\, keep on testing the world for meaning\, acceptance and love. \n‘Brilliant in so many ways …This diva pulls you along in their twirling wake.’ – Anne Kennedy \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nCadence Chung (she/they) is a poet\, classical singer\, and composer. She performs as a classical soloist and is a presenter on RNZ Concert. In 2023\, she was named an Emerging Practitioner by the Fund for Acting and Musical Endeavours. Her poems have been published in Best New Zealand Poems\, Landfall\, Newsroom\, Pantograph Punch\, Starling\, Sweet Mammalian\, takahē\, The Spinoff and Turbine / Kapohau. Her best-selling chapbook\, anomalia\, was released in 2022. She’s also the producer and editor of Mythos: an Audio-Visual Anthology of Art by Young New Zealanders\, released in 2024. Mad Diva is her first full-length collection of poetry. \n\nScorpio Books will be selling books on-site at the event.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-mad-diva-christchurch/
LOCATION:Little Andromeda\, Level 1/134 Oxford Terrace\, Christchurch Central City\, Christchurch\, Canterbury\, 8011\, New Zealand
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