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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 5. March 26 1979

[Introduction]

Between the 5 and 12 of May this year the 17th National Arts Festival will be held in Christchurch. There will be a number of acts going down from Victoria to the festival, but no less important is it that students from Vic shoot down south and participate in what may well be the best festival yet. VUWSA is currently trying to arrange transport and accommodation for any Vic students that want to go, and Salient will in-from you of these arrangements as they are finalised.

But the next four issues before the festival we will be running little excerpts from the programme to try and get you all interested in actually going down to the chilly south. This week:

A Feast of Poetry

Some of the best poets in New Zealand will be in Christchurch over the eight days of the festival.

A programme of formal, and open readings is planned, plus displays and workshops, and will begin on Sunday at the Canterbury Society of the Arts Gallery. Reading will be Jan Kemp, Russell Haley, Ken Hudson, Jeff Cheyne, Stephen Higginson, Lyall Benjamin and Craig Dixon. At the 'Opening Day Spectacular' there will be many local poets wandering through the crowd reading where and when they feel inclined. On Monday, again at the CSA Gallery, is a reading co-sponsered by Landfall one of New Zealands leading and oldest literary magazines. Almost all of the poets have appeared in the pages of Landfall at some time. Reading will be Nick Messenger, Alistair Paterson, Pat White, Jan Kemp, Russell Haley, Trevor Reeves, and Lewis Scott.