Scorpio Books and Te Herenga Waka University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of new poetry collection It’s What He Would’ve Wanted by Nick Ascroft. This event will feature readings from the author, as well as readings from supporting poets Erik Kennedy, Stacey Teague, Rebecca Hawkes and Ashleigh Young. All welcome, refreshments provided.

In this hilarious and affecting new work, Nick Ascroft writes of lost friends, new frailties, new braveries, and being stuck in an organ pipe during a recital and not wanting to bother anyone about it. Yes, there are poems of cycling into dead-end utility holes but also poems of trembling resolve and arriving at work as aged as the night sky after completing the morning school drop-off. This is the best collection yet by one of the most exciting and mercurial poets writing in Aotearoa today.

Friday 24 October, 5.30pm for a 6pm start @ Scorpio Books, Five Lanes, 120 Hereford Street

Free event – RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP

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