# Event Details

- **Event Name**: This imperfect light - Ben Brown Poet
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 05 Jul, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Ben Brown previews his next book at an intimate evening at LAF for this year’s festival, featuring original artwork by Bill Hammond and an opening set by Dominic Hoey. 

This Imperfect Light spans Browns work from 1994 to 2025 and is published by Dead Bird Books. New poems, old stories, last chance saloons and unexpected consequences with Lyttelton resonating throughout.

This evening will explore his creative friendship with Bill Hammond, working with his daughter, making it and losing it in Lyttelton, and the bigger questions underneath it all. Informal but structured, the audience is invited into the conversation. Hammond's original artwork projected throughout.

"The poem is a brief conversation with the late Bill Hammond. In 2011 just a few weeks before the killer February EQ, I got cheeky at the Lava Bar one weekday night when he was taking a break from his paints n brushes. Shouted him a pinot noir - a good one - and asked him if he’d maybe consider illustrating a book of poems one day . . .So it’s 2013 on a cold day going nowhere else and he just walks up to me on London Street right outside the library, slaps a plain brown A4 sized paper bag hard and flat to my chest and says, ‘I got something for you. Do what you fuckin like with them... ‘ then he hit up LCC for a coffee..."
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/lyttelton/this-imperfect-light-ben-brown-poet/200030224884919
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, festivals
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Lyttelton
- **state**: CA
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: 1 Sumner Rd, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand
- **lat**: -43.60291
- **long**: 172.72299
- **full address**: 1 Sumner Rd, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand, 1 Sumner Rd, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand, Lyttelton

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is This imperfect light - Ben Brown Poet being held?
  - **A:** This imperfect light - Ben Brown Poet takes place on Sun, 05 Jul, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Sun, 05 Jul, 2026 at 06:00 pm at 1 Sumner Rd, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand, 1 Sumner Rd, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand, Lyttelton.
- **Q**: Who is organizing This imperfect light - Ben Brown Poet?
  - **A:** This imperfect light - Ben Brown Poet is organized by Lyttelton Arts Factory.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** This imperfect light - Ben Brown Poet is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Lyttelton, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If This imperfect light - Ben Brown Poet sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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