Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Work smarter with a Pro licence Learn More

Art & Entertainment | Book Reviews | Education | Entertainment Video | Health | Lifestyle | Sport | Sport Video | Search

 

Christina Conrad 'Accessories of a Universal Globetrotter'

We are delighted to invite you to the opening of

CHRISTINA CONRAD

The Accessories of a Mystical Globetrotter

Saturday June 3, 5pm
3/06/17 - 8/07/17

Sydney-based Christina Conrad will read from her poetry at the opening at Tivoli Gallery, Oneroa, Waiheke. Pierre Peeters and Claire Ulenberg of the Pierre Peeters Gallery will launch the exhibition.

I am a timid child flung by an invisible force into the dark realm of my mother's long hallway.

I see myself on quavering legs, a mysterious power fills me, the white fire of my central eye penetrates the great looming shadows of life upon life, the masks - skeletons of those lives gyrate around me.

I become part of the ancient bodiless life. Each life the same play, different voices, different faces, stored in the bloody cage of the heart, the miser's vault - the mind.

I see myself in a schoolroom sharing a double desk of ancient wood with metal legs. On the lid of the desk, hundreds of names scarred in the wood. On the double seat next to me a girl sits. On her head above of her high polished forehead a blue bow trembles. She puts her hand inside my side of the double desk. The hand takes my fat chalks; the hand puts them in her side of the double desk.
CONRAD in conversation with poet Gene Tanta. Chicago, Feb, 2011


christinaconrad.webs.com

Christina Conrad lives in Sydney. Widely exhibited in New Zealand, Australia and Europe, her poetry is published in the Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry (ed. Ian Wedde) and the Oxford Book of New Zealand Poetry (ed. Vincent O'Sullivan)

She lived on Waiheke in the early 1970s.

***


Advertisement - scroll to continue reading

Are you getting our free newsletter?

Subscribe to Scoop’s 'The Catch Up' our free weekly newsletter sent to your inbox every Monday with stories from across our network.

© Scoop Media

Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
 
 
 
Culture Headlines | Health Headlines | Education Headlines

 
 
 
 
 
 

LATEST HEADLINES

  • CULTURE
  • HEALTH
  • EDUCATION
 
 
  • Wellington
  • Christchurch
  • Auckland
 
 
 

Join Our Free Newsletter

Subscribe to Scoop’s 'The Catch Up' our free weekly newsletter sent to your inbox every Monday with stories from across our network.