National Poetry Day would not be complete without David Merritt's poetry 'bricks'!

Posted: Monday Aug 12, 2024

Find out where you can read David's poems on 23 August here:

Each year, poet David Merritt meticulously hand-stamps a few hundred banana box book covers and glues an A3-sized poem, folded up, inside each one. This year he will assembles 23 different poems, referred to as "bricks," and includes curator notes in each box. These #poetrybricks will then sent to 18 different locations around the country, where anyone can read the poems at their own leisure, free of charge.

Locations on 23 August

• Hanger Gallery Whangarei

• The Open Book Ponsonby Auckland

• Auckland Public Library St Heliers Branch

• Rotorua Public Library

• Raw Balance Cafe Turangi

• 88 Putiki Cafe Whanganui

• Firebird Cafe Foxton

• Public Library Featherson

• National Library Wellington

• Blacks Coffee, Newtown Wellington

• Public Library Motueka

• Lyttelton Coffee Company ChCh

• Hokitika Public Library

• Grain Store Gallery Oamaru

• Side On Cafe Dunedin

• Maggie Cafe Dunedin

• Five Larries Bookshop, Laurence Otago

• Waste busters Wanaka Otago

Contact: David Merritt - lrfpress@gmail.com

Further Info: https://instagram.com/dm807169/ https://instagram.com/poetrybrick/

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