AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL
MEDIA RELEASE
15 November 2006
Denys Trussell in the library
In this month’s Glengarry Writers in the Library series, you are invited to hear poet, musician, essayist and biographer
Denys Trussell at the Central City Library on 22 November.
Denys is the author ofFairburn(1984), the life of poet ARD. Fairburn, which won the PEN Best First Book Award for
non-fiction in 1985 and Alan Pearson: His Life and Art (1991).
His poetry collections Dance of the Origin (1980) and Archipelago: The Ocean Soliloquies (1991, 2nd edition 1999) have
been set to music and dance. Another poetry collectionWalking into the Millennium (1998) was short listed in the 1999
Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
Speaking to the Islands of the Ancestors: Four long poems and commentaries (Brick Row Publishing, Auckland and
California, 2005), is Denys Trussell's seventh book of poems. These four poems are the composite image of a history that
is the poet's and perhaps that of other New Zealanders whose ancestry comes from the northern hemisphere.
ThisGlengarry Writers in the Library monthly series is presented in association with Whitcoulls.
Details
Date: Wednesday 22 November
Time: 5.30pm for a 6:00 pm start
Location: Whare Wananga, Level 2, Central City Library 44-46 Lorne St CBD
Cost: Free
Bookings:Wine and nibbles included. Bookings recommended. Call 09 377 0209.
For more details on events happening at Auckland City Libraries, please go to www.aucklandcitylibraries.com .
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