When You Hear The Whistle Blowin' Eight to the Bar'

Careys Bay

Wouldn't this be a perfect venue for a poetry evening for JnK Rolling's next whistlestop? We are in negotiations now with the Careys Bay Hotel. Excited!

Lined Up

Both Jenny and I have had books published this year. My book 'Born To A Red-Headed Woman' was published earlier this year. Go HERE to read more about it.

 Jenny's book, 'Trouble'  is being launched in a few days time. Go HERE to read about her book.

I've got a ways to go if I ever want to catch up on Jenny. She has had 7 books ... maybe 8 now? ... published in all! So far.

All Aboard!

We call ourselves 'JnK Rolling'. We are two Dunedin poets who have formed an alliance to seek out small corners of New Zealand and bring as well as bring-out, poetry. 

Discovering where the poetry of a community lies - whether it is in the landscapes, the community's unique characteristics, or in the people - is part of what we seek. It is our expectation that the poetry will be found in all three of these things (landscape, unique characteristics and people) and that they are in fact, inseparable.

Our underlying motif, or touchstone, is the idea of the steam trains of old that would call in at New Zealand country stations to off-load and on-load. This is also a tip of the hat to the Harry Potter stories to which our name J&K Rolling, alludes. We use the steam-train motif as our logo and we name the readings and tours we do, as Whistlestops.

This blog is intended to document the adventures we have already had in our short time into this venture, as well as the ones that await us down the line. 

Middlemarch, With Line-Breaks

One of JnK Rolling's (aka the poets, Jenny Powell and Kay McKenzie Cooke) recent whistlestops was at the small station of Middlemarch where we had a very pleasant reading time with some of the locals. We hope we can go back there again sometime, we had such fun.