Everyone is Everyone Except You: Book Launch

Join us to celebrate the release of Jordan Hamel's debut poetry collection, Everyone is Everyone Except You.

The evening will feature readings from Jordan, as well as Mohamed Hassan, Phoebe Stuckes, Johanna Cosgrove, & Claudia Creed.

Everyone is Everyone Except You, the honest and hilarious debut poetry collection from one of Aotearoa’s most charismatic poets, begins as a eulogy but opens out to a profound acceptance for the less-than-glamorous things that populate a life: failed relationships and confused intimacy; bad advice and poor preparation for manhood. Along the way, unexpected joys emerge, like eloping to Carterton in a Corolla, or getting it on to the memory of the All Blacks. Alternately comical and insightful, Jordan Hamel reinvents the time-honoured portrait-of-the-artist for a millennial sensibility.

Jordan Hamel is an Aotearoa writer and former NZ Poetry Slam Champion. He has an MFA from the University of Michigan. His debut poetry collection Everyone is Everyone Except You, was published in New Zealand by Dead Bird Books in 2022 and by Broken Sleep in the UK in July 2024. He is also the co-editor of No Other Place to Stand, an anthology of NZ climate change poetry from AUP (2022). He is the winner of the 2023 Sonora Review Poetry Competition, and the 2023 New Writers UK Poetry Prize. He was the runner-up in the 2023 American Literary Review Poetry Contest and a finalist for the 2024 BOMB Poetry Contest. Recent work can be found in POETRY, Electric Literature, Pleiades, American Literary Review, Gulf Coast and elsewhere.

Event details:

Doors open: 7:30pm
Readings from 7:45pm

This event will be held in the bookshop, which is completely wheelchair accessible.
Unfortunately, due to ongoing construction on site, we do not currently have access to disabled toilets.

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