As part of the National Poetry Day shenanigans, local and national poets will be wandering the streets of Hastings like the bards of old.
Organised by Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Trust, A Progression of Poets is coming to three Hastings locations on August 17.
People can pick which venue suits them - Hastings Distillers, Common Room or Spaceship – and wait for pairs of poets to come to their venue.
There will be three Hawke's Bay poets – Jeremy Roberts, Rosheen Fitzgerald and Nafauna Kersel - joined by three other poets.
Jeremy has been widely published in the NZ Listener, Landfall, Takahe, JAAM, Poetry NZ and Phantom Billstickers, and will be teaming up with poet, doctor, winner of a Montana Book Award and Fulbright Glenn Colquhoun.