Hawke's Bay Poetry Live with Jeremy Roberts

BIOGRAPHY – JEREMY ROBERTS Jeremy Roberts is a resident of Napier, New Zealand, where he lives with his wife and young daughter. He MC’s at Napier Live Poets, contributes to Hawke’s Bay Live Poets, and helps to organise National Poetry Day events. He has appeared at poetry events in many locations, including being an MC at Auckland’s Poetry Live, and currently interviews poets on Radio Kidnappers. He has made neon lights, children’s puzzles, and has been a Primary school teacher and a visual artist. In his late teens he discovered Ferlinghetti and the Beats, Blake, Keats, Coleridge, and Sylvia Plath, while studying at the University of Auckland. The earliest live poetry performances he saw were by Kiwi poets Kendrick Smithyman and Gary McCormick, and the first Kiwi poetry collection he owned was by Sam Hunt. Jeremy’s work has been published in a wide range of journals – including NZ Listener, Landfall, Takahē, JAAM, Poetry NZ, and Phantom Billstickers.