I’ve always wanted to visit the great heavenly hall of the Norse gods, so am very honoured to be not only visiting, but reading poetry there this Sunday. I wonder if we will be served Sæhrímnir? (A boar-like beast cooked & eaten each day in Valhalla, which then appears whole again in the morning.)
Of course I am just being silly – Valhalla is the name of a cafe in Raumati South which has a monthly poetry reading. I am reading with fellow Palmerston North poet Tim Upperton. I went to hear Bill Manhire at this poetry night when the cafe was called ‘Lembas’ and it was a top notch night out. I am always delighted to be invited to read, then I spend quite a bit of time getting very nervous and worked up about reading, then afterwards I am happy that I did it. If only I could skip step two of this pattern.
Helen Lehndorf 
8 responses to “Poetry reading in Valhalla”
Hey I might try and make it to Raumati you hear/see you read.
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Nice!
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We are pretty sure we’re going to make it. Yay! Also, Valhalla is a pub across the road from where Lembas was, just so you don’t go to the wrong place! 🙂
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Oh no, not a pub! I hate pubs. Ah well, I will work on my pub-phobia before Sunday. Yay,! That you are gonna come!
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It doesn’t really feel like a pub. Especially when full of poetry people,
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whew!
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hooray- that sounds fun! gonna try to organise a trip out to raumati tomorrow 🙂
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just found out visitors are arriving at 4pm, i’m sorry to miss it!
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