The Caitlin Smith Group will be playing on Rakino Island on Easter Saturday April 11th Easter 2009
Join us for one of the Gulf’s best-kept secrets!
The island hideaway of Rakino in the Hauraki Gulf hosts its annual event, Easter Saturday Jazz & Art Picnic 2009, with a superb line up of jazz performers.
Spend a memorable day [...]

Check the poems page, 40 pieces of poetry written over the last three years have published. One has become a song and has already been recorded.

Catch an Ox by the tail
Pass the parcel
Make it scream
Pin it to the wall
Seems everything he did– gave me the finger:
Ordering the bloodiest meat on the menu
Blowing smoke in my face
Taking me to a wine bar when I am not drinking
Asking me questions when I cannot speak
Getting hammered and falling asleep Infront of TV,
hand down [...]

navigating
our seemingly separate ways
one towards Southern Cross and one towards the Northern lights
we both magnetically move
in the same direction
propelled
forwards
Two wings of the same bird
We travel as one

Today
The sun rose
And the motorway is already caffeinated with traffic
but you are not here
My body still functions well
It longs for you in waves - prickles hot at night
There are thousands of reasons to celebrate the miraculous synchronized unfolding of tiny things
But
you are not here
I hit the vein of revelation multiple times in a day now
and [...]