Poetry Shelf celebrates a Laureate evening

By Paula Green | Posted: Friday Dec 05, 2025

Poetry Shelf celebrates our Poetry Treasures

An extraordinary gathering of Poet Laureates at the National Library in Wellington on November 27th inspired this celebratory post. Peter Ireland, who steered the event so beautifully, has kindly shared photos, audio and video links, and written an introduction. I invited a number of the laureates to contribute a poem and write a paragraph. Poet Philippa Werry was in the audience and shared a few words.

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