Event Photos (London): My Father Prayed in Croatian

On the 18th of April David spoke at the New Zealand High Commission in London. The event was chaired by Roy Cross, who writes:

“The week before last, I had the great pleasure of chairing a reading by David Howard, a New Zealand poet who should be much better known in the UK. David has written a wonderful sequence of poems, Mate (which is a Dalmatian name, pronounced Maat-eh, not a greeting!), about the encounter between Dalmatian immigrants to Aotearoa and the local Māori people at the turn of the century. Each poem in the sequence is told from the perspective of a different member of the Petricevich family.”

A PDF of the complete sequence with explanatory notes can be found on Roy’s site here, or as a direct download here. Below, some photographs from the event.

Roy Cross (left), David Howard (right)

David Howard speaks at the New Zealand High Commission (London)

David Howard (left), Davor Ljubanovic (centre), Roy Cross (right)

Christina Pribićević-Zorić (far left), Celia Hawkesworth (left), David Howard (right), Roy Cross (far right)

(Images supplied by Istros Books)