Mining is the Pits Poetry Reading

By Poetry Shelf - Paula Green | Posted: Wednesday Nov 05, 2025

Central Stories Museum, Alexandra6:30 pm–8:30 pm, Saturday 22 November 2025

Six Aotearoa New Zealand poets – Michael Harlow, Bridget Auchmuty, Jillian Sullivan, David Eggleton, Richard Reeve and Robert Sullivan – read poems to emphasise our cultural and spiritual connection with the land as a people, and protest the ecological and aesthetic violence being proposed in the form of open-cast gold mining.