From the Desk of the City of Literature
Meet Nicky Page, recently appointed Director, City of Literature Dunedin.
Visit this articleThis issue we are thoroughly spoilt with poetry, welcoming the Decadent 10 for National Poetry Day, and a contribution from the sublime Ann Jacobson. We go retro for the classics with Bronwyn Wyllie-Gibb, raise the roof with live radio broadcasts for The Big Listen, and pack the rafters for Dunedin Family Day. Plus cosy conversations with rare book dealer Rick Gekoski, poets Diane Brown and Lynley Edmeades, and radio host Domi Angelo-Laloli.
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Contents
What’s on
We're all go for this issue! Lots for the kids to do after school and in the holidays: Lego, chocolate, and International Science Festival adventures. Plus stories, theatre, a celebrity chef, and a huge month for poetry. Not forgetting our big Family Day brought to us by Storylines Children's Literature Trust. Did you notice we said chocolate?
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Hot Topic: Chiller Thrillers
Page-turning suspense, knife edge thrills, and the overwhelming desire to find out what happens on the last page, brings readers back for more and more.
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Fiction Review: Classics revisited…
This issue, we invited Bronwyn Wyllie-Gibb of the University Book Shop Otago to give us her recommendation for our next good read.
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Flits Across the Stage: Theatrical Ephemera from the Heritage Collection
Included in the McNab New Zealand Collection at Dunedin Public Library is a little-known collection of ephemera.
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What’s New McNab
A selection of the latest additions to our New Zealand reference collection.
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Refugee stories: How to grow empathy
Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
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DVD Review: That Sugar Film
In the style of Morgan Spurlock's 2004 documentary ‘Super Size Me’, Damon Gameau conducts a 60 day experiment consuming 40 teaspoons of sugar a day.
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A Word in Your Ear
This issue, two of our guest poets for our National Poetry Day celebration on 25th August wax lyrical...
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In Conversation: Rick Gekoski
Author, reading addict, former Man Booker Award judge, and rare book dealer, Rick Gekoski, attended the March World Book Day event, hosted by the University of Otago’s Centre for the Book. Dunedin Public Libraries' Collection Specialist, Jackie McMillan, caught up with him there.
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The Case of the MISSING BODY
In July 2016, Otago University Press will release an important new book by Dunedin writer, Jenny Powell.
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Mango Languages
Dunedin Public Libraries subscribe to an online language learning resource called Mango Languages that provides a fun, easy and effective way to learn a foreign language.
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Live From Teen Space
Youth Zone's Domi Angelo-Laloli is planning a live radio broadcast from Dunedin Public Libraries on 8th August to celebrate The Big Listen.
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Spaced-out Cornflakes Descends on The Library
As part of The Big Listen, celebrating community access radio throughout August, that old pirate Captain Cornflakes will be hijacking the Children's Storypit.
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Meet Your Heroes at Family Day Dunedin
There is no doubt – Storylines’ Family Day is special.
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