Claire Lacey

  Odes to bad exes, scathing sonnets about nemeses, compositions against corporate holidays...you get the idea. We all need a bit of revenge in our lives. Join Claire Lacey at Indigo Room to celebrate catharsis with some tongue-in-cheek writing exercises. Get poetically petty, you know you want to. And after, stay to enjoy the Heartbreak and Bad Romance live music at Indigo Room, or go have a romantic date with your current beau because you really can have it all. Koha entry. Devilishly indulgent drinks and foods available to purchase from Indigo Room.

I'm very excited to have new poems included in the latest issues of Landfall and 1964 .  I am grateful to be in these amazing journals next to so many writers and artists I admire, and it gives me a real thrill to be in print in Aotearoa New Zealand based journals. Does this mean I am officially a local poet now??? 

Check out this video of my poem Digital Dunedin commissioned for National Poetry Day hosted at the Dunedin Public Library. When Wikipedian at Large Mike Dickison paid a visit to Dunedin, he mentioned how integrated Wikipedia is in our daily lives. I took that sentiment and ran with it, creating a text that looks at how I use digital spaces including Wikipedia, Twitter, Pokemon Go, and Google Maps to navigate my physical surroundings, and that adds a layer to my environment that is both collectively generated and individually consumed. Online spaces are ambiguous and can be fraught with tension as they demand our attention, but they can also be connective and empowering. I hope this piece expresses some of that sentiment. I am so grateful to be in Dunedin studying at the University of Otago. The support of the Department of English and Linguistics, the UNESCO City of Literature Scholarship, and the mentorship of my supervisors Jacob Edmond, Ruth Napper, and Christine Jasoni mean so...

23 August 2019 @ Dunedin Public Library 5:30pm Free, booking required I will be performing a new piece of work about Digital Dunedin, inspired by the recent visit of Wikipedian at Large Mike Dickison. How does our digital landscape interact with the physical world around us and vice versa?