Perch - Ōtepoti Dunedin poets celebrate 10 years of our UNESCO City of Literature

Commissioned for NZ National Poetry Day 2024, David’s collaboration with Victor Billot ‘Dunedin Sound’ features in Perch:

“Sixty poets, often in brilliant collaboration, celebrate Ōtepoti Dunedin’s ten years as Aotearoa New Zealand’s UNESCO City of Literature. It’s rare to find a collection so infused with place: Dunedin’s moods, seasons, sounds, colours, present and past come alive with photographic clarity.”

— James Norcliffe

For more information, or to order, head here.

David Howard & Ivan Rogers — The Whole of Boredom

The Whole of Boredom, David’s collaboration with photographer Ivan Rogers, has been published in Volume 18, Issue 3 of the Midway Jounal. You can find the complete piece here.

Aggressive, inexperienced, cowardly: this is what ‘punk’ has been reduced to by the dehydrating neo-liberal years. Yet progressive, seasoned, brave talents were also there. While David waited in the wings, Ivan Rogers played bass for ‘Six Impossible Things’; their songwriter Bill Direen recalls: “Ivan and I met in 1980 in Wellington. I’m a bit hazy about it all, but Grant McDonagh was there and so was Steve Braunias, Tom Scully, Jude Jerome and others. We played some good shows, one in Porirua at a 21st.” Ivan photographed that scene, capturing the whole of boredom and a part of joy.

From The Whole of Boredom — photograph by Ivan Rogers.