Join us to celebrate the launch of ‘NO GOOD’, ex-shop girl Sophie van Waardenberg’s debut poetry collection!

Even since Sophie’s kaimahi/staff days here at The Open Book, she has been a regular reader at our events, and we just love her.

All welcome! There will be snacks and drinks and lively chatter. Thanks to Anna Livesey for launching the book, and to Zephyr Zhang and Amy Marguerite for joining the line-up!

In this debut poetry collection, Sophie van Waardenberg considers girlhood and grief, love and its loss, distance and the return home, including at its heart a sequence of emotionally raw ‘Cremation Sonnets’. In its essence, this collection is the poet exploring ‘goodness’: ‘I am unbegrudging. I am the openest pair of arms’, she tells us. ‘I am a large dirty lake, a tepid naughty heart.’

You can find more info about the book by clicking here.