You're invited to my book launch
It's too late for me to back out now!
Kia ora koutou
Some of you are subscribed to my substack because you like my writing. Others are subscribed because you interact with me in real life and don’t want to come across as impolite. In either case, you are so invited to my book launch on Friday 29 August at 6.30pm!
I am holding the thing at Trades Hall, underneath the legendary Rebel Press and home of my publisher, 5ever books. There will be festivities, speeches and live music and I will profusely sweat through the entire thing due to my anxiety about sharing something so intimate with people from all sorts of professional, artistic and activist circles.
As I’ve mentioned, Downstream from Nowhere is a silly fake history of a non-existent piece of land viewed through the lens of pākehā subjectivity, again and again. I’ve tried to incorporate my love of music and history and my perpetual irritation with ahistoricism. I really like what I’ve done but please don’t take my word for it! Here’s what fellow Timaruvian and poet extraordinare Jordan Hamel has to say about it:
Downstream from Nowhere continues a new lineage of bracing and complex Aotearoa literary satire. Crawford sends us running straight into a tornado of intergenerational colonial mindsets, jingoistic historicism, and pop-cultural epochs, with a goat’s head in one hand and a kebab in the other. Probably the best thing to come out of Timaru since Phar Lap.
See you there!
ur boy jc
P.S. If you live in the regions and want to bring Downstream from Nowhere to your favourite local book shop then please get in touch! Even if they hate what I’ve done in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, I’m sure this is going to do gangbusters in the real New Zealand.
