*HOME & AWAY 2010*

*HOME & AWAY 2010*
A Trans Tasman Poetry Symposium
30-31 March at the University of Auckland
1-2 September in Sydney and the Blue Mountains


Not everyone can get to everything in real time; and then there is poetry. The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) presents HOME & AWAY 2010, a trans Tasman poetry symposium dedicated to generating work and conversation face to face and in the global/digital neighbourhood. We want to talk about (and produce more) literary connections between Australia, New Zealand and the world of 21^st century poetry.

We are planning a two-part symposium in Auckland and Sydney. We will host readings, launches and forum-style talks at the University of Auckland 30-31 March http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/home&away/auckland.asp and celebrate the publication of Steal Away Boy: Selected Poems of David Mitchell (Auckland UP). During the March event we will also establish a digital bridge and invite poets and others to start from one end with a contribution (text, images, audio or video). Further contributions to the bridge will be uploaded as the symposium convenes in Sydney 1-2 September (http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/home&away/sydney.asp). In this way we hope to create two-way traffic between points in time and places where people meet.

Let us know if you would like to attend HOME & AWAY 2010 (March or September) and check out how to contribute to the digital bridge. Our resources are as usual slender but in the spirit of past *nzepc* symposiums (3RD BIRTHDAY 2004, FUGACITY 2005, and BLUFF 2006) we will do our best to accommodate expressions of interest.

For an earlier example of nzepc activity offshore, see LOVE, WAR & LAST THINGS: A DIGITAL BRIDGE FOR FLORENCE (2008).


Pam Brown, Martin Edmond, Brian Flaherty and Michele Leggott
16 February 2010