# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Sydney launch: Te Purere/The Exodus: The Anthology of Expatriate New Zealand Poets
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 06 Dec, 2025 at 05:00 am
- **Event Description**: Sydney launch: Te Purere/The Exodus: The Anthology of Expatriate New Zealand Poets

Edited by Vaughan Rapatahana and John Gallas, Cold Hub Press, 2025

There are myriad Aotearoa new Zealand poets who live overseas; several eminent, others relatively unknown. This significant anthology is the first to give voice to these expatriate Kiwi and their distinct perspectives, widening the parameters of New Zealand poetry well beyond its shores. \”John Gallas and Vaughan Rapatahana were destined to create an anthology like this since for many years those writers have been migratory birds, cultural hunter- gatherers. As Rapatahana, the ‘indigenous expatriate’, describes his exploring: ‘from the east I travel / to the east I rebound / carting the lumber of assorted cultures / the hardware of hybrid emotion . . . // I become a different jigsaw.’ The anthology is a valuable reminder that we are all jigsaws in progress, not confined to a single identity.\” –Roger Horrocks, Introduction.

P O E T S

SUSAN ADAMS [LES WICKS READING] / MIRO BILBROUGH / JEN CRAWFORD / DOC DRUMHELLER / STEPHEN SMITHYMAN / ANGELA STRETCH [HOST] / E WEN

B O O K S A L E S

Special book price at the event courtesy of the publisher, Cold Hub Press. The anthology can be purchased through the publishers website. International fee $60.

Cover image: Pauline Canlas Wu
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Surry Hills
- **state**: NS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Stanley Street Gallery
- **lat**: -33.875671200192
- **long**: 151.21440410614
- **full address**: Stanley Street Gallery, 50 Stanley St, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia, Surry Hills

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