wild camomile - haiku by Owen Bullock - Owen Bullock is a Cornishman who has lived in Aotearoa-New Zealand for twenty years. Poetry has been his passion since his teens, and he has been writing and publishing haku for the last decade. His work has been published in such prestigious overseas and international journals as Frogpond, Famous Reporter, paper wasp, Raw NervZ, World Haiku Review, Kokako, Red Moon and Manaichi Daily News. ... more

The Human Conversation - thoughts on being a creative being from Marcel Currin
I am sitting at the piano, chatting with Beethoven. We are talking across 200 years of history. I am engaging with Beethoven's ideas, trying to follow his line of thought in the sonata I'm learning. He keep surprising me. Sometimes I think I could do better ... more

Bravado 17 - out now. Co-ordinating editor Jenny Argante reports... "Once again the courier wakes me by bouncing boxes onto my front deck. As soon as his van drives off, I tiptoe out in my nightie with knife in hand to rip open the top carton and pull out a copy of Bravado 17... read more

Poets to the People ... thoughts on the Kapitit Coast poetry scene by Gill Ward ... more

Check the competition page for RESULTS and judge's comments for the sixth bravado poetry competition.