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Poems from Black River Exhibition

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Description: A collection of limited-edition prints of the poems exhibited in the Black River: A collaboration in print and poetry exhibition at Te Manawa between 14 June 2014 and 11 January 2015.

Poems and artists are listed as:
- Discussing bad relatives with the Manawatū River (Leonel Alvarado)
- Kia tu te Manawa (Gavin Reedy)
- Are you red for this? (Johanna Aitchison)
- Eight Angles on the Manawatū River (James Brown)
- Swim (Tim Upperton)
- Mudlark (Helen Lehndorf)

Each limited-edition print is signed by the creating poet and bears limited edition number 15 of 20.

Includes two booklets with the poems listed in full, including prints which were used in the exhibition by other artists.

The exhibition description is described as: "With the Manawatū River as their muse, artists and poets were inspired by one another, mixing ideas and motifs across the disciplines of printmaking and poetry to produce new work for the exhibition and also for the Te Manawa collection."