Come along to help us celebrate the launch of Miss Dust, Johanna Aitchison’s third poetry collection, and hear readings by Johanna and other Seraph Press poets: Vivienne Plumb, Vana Manasiadis and Nina Powles.

Books will be available for sale (cash or cheque only). Drinks and snacks and conviviality for free.

Saturday 8 August, 3 pm, at the Concerned Citizens Collective, 17 Tory Street, Wellington

Come and help us celebrate the launch of Johanna Aitchison's fabulous third poetry collection at Palmerston North City Library on Friday 17 July at 6.30 pm. All welcome!

And, if you want to buy the book but can't make the launch, I've just added some buttons so you can buy Miss Dust online. (I'll be adding the facility to buy all of the other books online soon, but in the meantime just email me at [email protected].)

I'm delighted to announce the imminent publication of Miss Dust, the third collection by fabulous and original poet Johanna Aitchison. 

Behold the front cover, featuring a painting, The Gardening Queen, by Wairarapa artist Janie Nott.

Don't be fooled by such a bright and happy cover though, the poems in Miss Dust are far from frothy. There is a lightness and humour to her poetry, which serves to leaven the dark truths in some of the poems. 

I've followed Johanna's poetry for years, from her first work in JAAM, and became a particular fan with her stunning second collection A Long Girl Ago (2007), which I particularly admired for its bold experiments with language, prompted by her time in Japan.

Miss Dust has been a few years in the making, and is worth the wait. It takes all the things I admired in A Long Girl Ago and twists them off into a new direction. I'm excited to be publishing it.

Read more about Miss Dust and Johanna here.

Launch invitation to follow!