New Poetry Chapbook – After the Pantomime

Sorry for such a long gap between posts, I have been without a laptop for several months. (Don’t ask!) I didn’t have the money to get it out of the shop. Thank God for my flatmate’s laptops, however slow.

I had the launch of my latest poetry chapbook on the 4th of December at Lopdell House in Titirangi. It was a lovely evening, with the stunning views out to the harbour at Lopdell and having my favourite writer Vivienne Plumb attend made me more than a bit chuffed and reading alongside Murray Edmond. What a privilege.

The story behind the book is that I found a box of vintage photos and postcards in an op shop in Grey Lynn – some of them were uncanny in how they fitted my poems.

Jess van Zeal helped me give it the In Design treatment, and voila!

I hope you enjoy it. Here is the cover.

You can order it from me via email and I will have one made especially. They are $10.50 including postage and will take about a week, depending on where you live. Overseas? Include $2 more for postage.

Anna

Was Orwell on to something?

Just finished 1984.  Yes, I know, it’s taken me 31 years to read it, but whatevs.

So, in the speculative story, the collective memory of the people is tampered with manually by the state and truth is manipulated. With the digital revolution on our doorstep, we are edging closer to the digitization of our entire collective memory. How easy would it be to tamper with?

I mean, I go back and edit tweets. Come on, we’ve all done it.

What do you think?

So pretty soon all our data (and I mean all of it) will be in the clouds (cloud computing), meaning it will be held on a server somewhere with an unknwon SYSADMIN responsible for it…who knows what could happen, or what may be revealed…Web 3.0 is the data web btw (the guy who invented the web talks about it on TED).

Vewy interwesting..

I’d be keen to know your thoughts.

Also, I am obsessed with dystopian fiction at the mo and have my own young adult’s novel on the go…any suggestions for the reading list?

Anna

Also, take a look at the video here and the link below to see the end of the book as we know it (well the beginning of something new anyway)

www.kiwamedia.com