St Patrick’s Day with John O’Donohue, 15th March 2000
An invitation to a St Patrick’s Day event with John O’Donohue at Unity Books, 57 Willis Street. It was standing room only for the charismatic Celt’s readings.
Tag Archives: Poetry
National Poetry Day, 27th July 2012
For National Poetry Day 2012 Unity Books hosted six poets published by Victoria University Press at a lunchtime event in the shop. Bill Manhire, Harry Ricketts, Geoff Cochrane, James Brown,…
Poems on the Vine, 24th February 2001
Poems on the Vine Events Programme, held at Gladstone Vineyard, Carterton and opened by Georgina Beyer MP.
Glenn Colquhoun Launch, 23rd February 2001
An invitation to a reading from An Explanation of Poetry to My Father by Glenn Colquhoun, published by Steele Roberts, at Unity Books. Nobody fainted at this reading, though many…
AFTERGLOW: Marilyn Duckworth
Thursday night at Unity Books saw the launch of Marilyn Duckworth’s collection of new and selected poems. Hot on the heels of a 2016 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement…
AFTERGLOW: Songs of the City by MaryJane Thomson and Rock & Roll by Mark Pirie
Tuesday 27th September we had our first launch in the new daylight hours. A double header! Beginning with Songs of the City by MaryJane Thomson, her third collection of poetry…
Launch | Rock & Roll: Selected Poems by Mark Pirie AND Songs of the City by MaryJane Thomson | Tuesday 27th September 6-7:30pm
Unity Books, HeadworX & Bareknuckle Books warmly invite you to celebrate the release of Rock & Roll: Selected Poems by Mark Pirie and Songs of the City by MaryJane…
AFTERGLOW: ‘6 Poets in 60 Minutes’ – a National Poetry Day celebration
Poetry is alive and well in 2015. Don’t listen to any naysayers who say the writing’s on the wall for the old-school written word – at Unity Books Wellington, on…
Lunchtime Event | 6 Poets in 60 Minutes | 12-1pm 28th August 2015
Visit Unity Books Wellington on Friday 28 August to celebrate National Poetry Day 2015. From 12-1pm we will host readings from a stellar line-up of Wellington poets: Geoff Cochrane,…
Lunchtime poetry reading with Jen Hadfield
Come along to the shop from 12 to 12.45 on Thursday 27 February and hear T.S Eliot Prize winner, Shetland-based poet Jen Hadfield Read from her new book Byssus…
