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Music and poetry are almost always part of the opening night of Going West, and this performance from 2017 brought the two together in a remarkable set of spoken and sung poetry and jazz - Small Holes In The Silence. The poems performed, in order are: Rain by Hone Tuwhare Warehouse Curtains by Bill Manhire Wild Iron by Allen Curnow - By kind permission of Tim Curnow Blue Rain by Alistair Campbell - Copyright © the Estate of Alistair Campbell I Met a Man by Janet Frame - By kind permission of the copyright owner The Janet Frame Literary Trust. Buddhist Rain by David Mitchell Yellow Room by David Mitchell 1950s by Bill Manhire Making Baby Float by Norman Meehan Live on stage in Henderson, Bill Manhire reads a selection of classic New Zealand poems with accompaniment by a jazz ensemble including Norman Meehan on piano, Hannah Griffin on vocals and Blair Latham on saxophone. While the performance takes its name, Small Holes In The Silence, from Hone Tuwhare’s beloved poem Rain, Bill Manhire notes th