# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Author talk with Harry Ricketts - Wardini NAPIER
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 am
- **Event Description**: Join us for a guaranteed delightful and thoughtful chat with Harry Ricketts, upon the release of his new volume of poems.

It’s getting colder as the flames
rise from the bonfires, real and virtual.
See how they flicker in the darkling air.

What is happiness in a suddenly unfamiliar world? What happens to us once the old connections spark and disappear? With his characteristic humanity, intelligence and humour, Harry Ricketts writes of youth, hope, books and writers, and the friendships through which we come to know ourselves. Included in this new book are poems about finding one’s way through a world altered by loss, and the magical thinking that sustains us.

'Very engaging and soothing in a messy world.' —NZ Listener

Harry Ricketts is a poet and literary scholar and has published around 30 books. He has lived in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, since 1981. Until his retirement in 2022, he was a professor in the English Programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. His books include the internationally acclaimed The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling (1999) and Strange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War (2010). His recent books include the poetry collections Winter Eyes (2018) and Selected Poems (2021), and the memoir First Things (2024). With historian David Kynaston, he is the co-author of the award-winning Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes: The Story of an Ashes Classic (Bloomsbury, 2024).

Cover (woodcut): Dave Kent
Cover (design): Todd Atticus
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Napier
- **state**: HB
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: 44 Hastings St, Napier South, Napier 4110, New Zealand
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- **long**: 176.91821
- **full address**: 44 Hastings St, Napier South, Napier 4110, New Zealand, 44 Hastings St, Napier South, Napier 4110, New Zealand, Napier

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- **organizer**: Wardini Books (https://allevents.in/org/wardini-books/26283983)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
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  - **A:** Wardini Books
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