Poets on the Run

Thursday 12— 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

If you haven't hear them it is time you did. Culture seldom comes in such a presentable commodity. Sam Hunt and Gary McCormick are amongst the very few that make a living from their art. Unlike anything picked up in an academic course their poetry is alive, living, and often hilarious; about us and New Zealand today.

A former resident of Bottle Creek, Sam Hunt still lives on the Paramata Arm of the Porirua Harbour in the old Death Homestead. A winding road and spring tides occasionally cut him off from Post Office General store and bottle store. A prolific writer Sam has published Between the Islands, Bracken Country, Bottle Creek, South into Winter and Time To Ride. Drunken Garden is soon to be released.

Gary (ex-school caretaker toilet cleaner postman merry-go-round operator and Truth man of the week) was once on the Porirua City Council with a majority of one vote. His first work was a joint publication with Jon Benson of Gisborne. Later came Naked and Nameless and then a play The Moon Lovers; Poems for the 'Little Red Engine is on the way.

Both poets are performers of old, having toured the country with rock bands in past years in between writing. Their appearance on campus is courtesy of Students Arts Council as part of their grand tour Poets On The Run. The lunch time concert on Thursday with Rough Justice in the Union Hall promises to be reminiscent of their past escapades, Sam with Mammal, Gary with Storm and at Nambassa. Sam, as well as performing with group members before, has also written for Mammal, so it is going to be an afternoon with one of New Zealand's top bands and two of its most entertaining ports.

Later that night (at 8p.m. on the middle floor of the Union Building) Sam and Gary will be back with wine, reading and discussing poetry; mostly their own. Everybody is invited to come and settle in for an interesting evening.

In addition, Poetry is featured on Thursday and at the Mad Hatters Tea Party on Saturday afternoon.

O Lucky Man is possibly the best wholly - British film ever made. The continual excitement and visual stimulus is overpowering with sequence after sequence of unexpected events, which range in location from an old fashioned small town boarding house to a futuristic nuclear research centre.