Presented by Arts on Tour NZ
Old Lodge Theatre: 7.30pm
Tickets $20: available on line from Hokitika’s Regent Theatre
Two poets and a musician combine to present a comic and lyric portrait of Aotearoa New Zealand and its place in the South Pacific today. Their Mad Doggerel poetry cabaret is full of cascading words, wild musicality and lightning humour.
This entertaining show will bring three nationally-eminent artists to Hokitika.
David Eggleton, the current Poet Laureate of Aotearoa 2019 – 2022, has been described by reviewers as a a jazz-bop-beatnik poet ‘whose poems never cease to amaze and astound in their creativity’.
Overseas, amongst other events, David has taken part in the Poetry Olympics and the Ranters’ Cup Final, winning Street Entertainer of the Year for Poetry at the London Convent Garden Festival.
Daren Kamali was a co-founder of the South Auckland Poets’ Collective in 2008, an organisation aimed at encouraging young Pacific poets to tell their stories. An accomplished performance poet, as well as a musician, Daren has travelled the world presenting poems based on Polynesian and Pasifika legends and his own life story. .
Richard Wallis is a Dunedin-based classical guitarist. As a soundscape musician he has worked extensively with David Eggleton in producing music and video recordings.