Book Launch - Drinking With Li Bai by Doc Drumheller

Cold Hub Press and Scorpio Books warmly invite you to the launch of 'Drinking With Li Bai', a new collection of haiku by Canterbury poet Doc Drumheller.

Join us from 5.30pm for refreshments, with formalities including a reading from Doc at 6pm.

Please RSVP for catering purposes to ray@scorpiobooks.co.nz.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Drinking With Li Bai features one hundred haiku composed by New Zealand poet Doc Drumheller while he was visiting Enshi, Guangzhou, Guizhou, Suiyang, Shengze, Shanghai, and Beijing in China, and Odisha, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, New Delhi, Varanasi, Agra, Bodh Gaya, and Allahabad in India. On his travels Doc Drumheller has represented the Waimakariri District as a Cultural Ambassador to Enshi in a Sister City Cultural Exchange. He was appointed New Zealand Director of the Silk Road Poetry Project, and has represented New Zealand at international poetry festivals in China and India. Haiku from this collection were selected for Orongohau Best New Zealand Poems 2018 and 2020.