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A poem is found in heart and song. Carol Don Ercolano and Eliza Thomson feature at Acid on the Microphone
“Of all the writing genres, poetry is the one which speaks most directly to the heart,” believes Nelson poet Carol Don Ercolano. “It is the most powerful and the most enduring. It has the ability to change forever the way a reader sees the simple, everyday world.”
Carol is our featured guest at this month’s Acid on the Microphone.
Recently, Carol published her first poetry collection, titled “Simply that’. An optimist by nature, she gains much of her writing inspiration from the natural world and her interaction with it. Many of her poems are written while walking the dogs on Nelson’s Boulder Bank and on Golden Bay’s Pohara Beach, where she has a family bach.
Her work has been featured in local anthologies and magazines as well as in the national Poetry Pudding, an anthology for children edited by Jenny Argante and in several British anthologies. She herself has compiled and edited several anthologies and enjoys the analysis and appreciation of the written word almost as much as she enjoys writing and performing.
Carol has been Guest Poet for a Top of the South Writers Writing Retreat, a Poetry Judge for the Golden Bay Lit Awards, guest Poet for Nelson and Motueka Live Poets, and has given many talks on poetry, which included performing her own work. A pleasure and an honour to have her perform her work at Acid on the Microphone.
Local singer/songwriter ELIZA THOMSON will perform a set after Carol. She is originally from Taranaki but now settled in the Bay. Her musical expression is deeply inspired by her loving connection to nature, bringing her times of gathering around fire under the stars with friends to the stage. She brings an engaging presence to the microphone, as she weaves messages of peace through heartfelt piano, guitar and singing melodies. Eliza will be accompanied by rhythm anchor alanjahjah for this GB Live Poets set.
ACID on the MICROPHONE
Thursday 12 November
Open mic: from 7.30 pm
Carol Ercolano: 8.30 pm
Eliza Thomson : 9.00 pm
