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David Eggleton & Richard Wallace (Wild Cards Aotearoa) with Otis Mace
Poet David Eggleton and musician Richard Wallis combine to present a comic and lyric portrait of Aotearoa New Zealand and its place in the South Pacific Moana Nui today. Their Wild Cards Aotearoa duo presents cascading lyrics, wild musicality and lightning humour.
David Eggleton, the Poet Laureate of Aotearoa 2019 - 2022, has been described as a a jazz-bop-beatnik poet 'whose poems never cease to amaze and astound in their creativity ... in performance he is no longer a just a poet but a ranter, a raver, a conjuror ... his poetry spirals into today's world
from a Polynesian heritage'. David Eggleton, an acclaimed writer, has received just about every literary award for poetry it is possible to receive in New Zealand, from the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Poetry in 2016 to PEN NZ Best First Book of Poems in 1987. Overseas, amongst other events, he has taken part in the Poetry Olympics and the Ranters' Cup Final, winning Street Entertainer of the Year for Poetry at the London Convent Garden Festival.
Richard Wallis is a Waikouaiti-based classical guitarist, rock musician and a soundscape musician.
“David Eggleton delivers poetry that is considered, pulsating with energy. It’s alive, vital and contemporary, steeped in popular and postmodern culture. It offers a vision of New Zealand which is at once resolutely local and yet not quite recognisable or predictable. It offers a vision of ourselves which defies expectation to surprise and charm.”
Otis Mace: From melodramatic lounge folk to psychobilly sleaze the Otis Mace delivers an intoxicating blend of sonic goodness that will nestle sweetly in your memory.
For four decades Otis has played many shows keenly enjoying the audiences bemused smiles and rapturous applause while delivering a balm to resist the pathogens of the mass media age.
