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Lunar New Year: celebrations with paediatrician, poet and playwright Renee Liang
Audio 11 Feb 2024In Aotearoa, families celebrate the Lunar New Year in a variety of ways, says paediatrician, poet and playwright Renee Liang. For her own family, Chinese New Year's Eve is the occasion for a special… Audio
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Chris Tse curates a reading list for Chinese New Year
Poet Laureate Chris Tse curates a selection of recent books by Aotearoa’s East and South East Asian writers to mark Lunar New Year.
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“Katherine Mansfield: proto-feminist, counter-cultural hero, modernist, I salute you!”
Audio 15 Oct 2023A hundred years after Katherine Mansfield died at the age of 34, six writers and performers share their personal connections to the New Zealand writer's life and legacy. Audio
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Chris Tse: ‘It was a bit of a secret that I liked Celine Dion’
Audio 15 Oct 2023How does a poet laureate celebrate their birthday? If you're Chris Tse, you mark the occasion with a gathering of fellow poets - and by writing a new poem about your love of Celine Dion. Audio
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Pub poetry event set to honour New Zealand poet legend
Audio 13 Oct 2023An election day in Dunedin event is set to combine politics, poetry and pubs. Seven poets will feature at the event at the bar Woof! as part of the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival, which kicks… Audio
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Poet Jenny Bornholdt: A Garden is a Long Time
Poet Jenny Bornholdt's new book A Garden is a Long Time weaves her words with the life and photographic art of Annemarie Hope-Cross, who died last year. Hope-Cross studied photogenic drawing, wet and… Audio
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Read all about it: A beginner’s guide to the 2023 Ockham Book Awards
Not yet read the contenders for Aotearoa’s big-deal book awards? Here’s a cheat sheet to help you sound like you have.
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Michele Leggott: celebrating unsung 1860’s artist Emily Harris
Last week we spoke to Michele Leggott about her experiences with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. What we didn't get to talk about was the book and research work Leggott has been working on over this time: her… Audio
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Poet Michele Leggott: waiting for a miracle
Michele Leggott's latest book of poetry, Face to the Sky, explores her encounter with 19th-century New Zealand botanical artist Emily Cumming Harris. But there's more to this story - Michele was… Audio
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Simon Armitage: the UK poet laureate on why poetry matters
UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is the author of a dozen poetry collections, and in his recently published series of Oxford lectures A Vertical Art: On Poetry, Audio
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First Up - The Podcast, Friday 16 December
Audio 16 Dec 2022On our final First Up pod for 2022 with Anna Thomas - we touch down in the USA with Bevan Hurley and Nabil Ahmed in Africa; and it's fruit of the year time with our Minister of Fruit and Veggies… Audio
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NZ Poet Laureate Chris Tse: Photogenesis
It's our final First Up of 2022 so we wanted to bring you -- our wonderful listeners -- something a bit special this morning. We're delighted to say the editor, writer and New Zealand Poet Laureate… Audio
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Elizabeth Smither's poems about home, family and mortality
Audio 4 Dec 2022In the 47 years since Elizabeth Smither published her first poetry collection, Here Come the Clouds, she's won numerous awards and was our Poet Laureate in the early 2000s. Her latest collection My… Audio
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2022 Lilburn Lecture: Ross Harris
For his 2022 Lilburn Lecture, composer and Arts Laureate Ross Harris dove deep into his own musical past, sharing colourful snapshots from his life and career. Audio
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Legally blind PhD student Michael Whittaker
In his twenties Michael Whittaker started losing his vision due to a progressive condition, retinitis pigmentosa. He was an international model at the time, and still fits in some modelling… Audio
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'Slap in the face': The problem with Chinese Language Week
The heavy focus on Mandarin over Chinese Language Week is disappointing to many Chinese Kiwis. Audio
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Chris Tse - our latest Poet Laureate
Audio 28 Aug 2022Surprised, honoured and just a bit intimidated... That's how our new Poet Laureate Chris Tse feels about his new role. Given he's only in his thirties, he also sees this acknowledgement as a real… Audio
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Mad Doggerels
Audio 1 Aug 2022Poet laureate David Eggleton and Pacific Daren Kamali are about to embark on their month long Mad Doggerel Cabaret tour combining a comical and lyrical portrait of Aotearoa New Zealand and its place… Audio
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The Sampler - Te Kahureremoa, Ben Woods, Moor Mother
Tony Stamp explores a mix of taonga pūoro and electronic sounds on the debut of Pōneke’s Te Kahureremoa, a second album of Antipodean gothic from Ōtautahi’s Ben Woods, and an exploration of jazz’s… Audio
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Bobsession
Audio 20 May 2021As Bob Dylan turns 80 "Bobsessives" around the world are enjoying a renewed focus on their musical deity. Andrew McCallum is by no means the most committed enthusiast for the music of the Nobel… Video
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“I led a happy life, but I wrote sad poems” – Bill Manhire on his time as a Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow
Celebrating 50 years of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, five writer read their letters to New Zealand's most famous author. A highlight of Word Christchurch 2020. Audio
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David Eggleton: The Wilder Years
Audio 25 Apr 2021There is almost 40 years of poetry for Poet Laureate David Eggleton to choose from for his new Best Of anthology. The Dunedin based writer has called his collection of selected poems The Wilder Years… Audio
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Priestdaddy author Patricia Lockwood releases her debut novel
Patricia Lockwood's 2017 memoir Priestdaddy was named one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review. She's just released her debut novel No One Is Talking About This, which… Audio
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Four adventurous women describe lives which are different, but all extraordinary
Four adventurous women discuss their lives with Miriama Kamo in the opener to the 2020 WORD Christchurch writers' festival Audio
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'We're effectively elderly flower throwers'
David Eggleton and fellow bard Steve Thomas have been winding their way around the country for their Say It With Flowers tour. We catch up with Steve as the pair make their way to Port Chalmers for… Audio
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Bill Manhire wows with his new collection
Audio 8 Nov 2020A new collection of Bill Manhire poems is undoubtedly an event. Even if our first Poet Laureate includes a very backhanded compliment on the cover: "Being the leading poet in New Zealand is like being… Audio
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Paul Kelly - Trevor Reekie Feature
Paul Kelly has been described as the poet laureate of Australian music and remains one of Australia's most popular song writers who has always been motivated by a love of words and songs that tell… Audio
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Cilla McQueen: Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Bluff poet Cilla McQueen has been named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in today's Honour's list. She joins Karyn to talk about a life of words and writing. Audio
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Ian Wedde on his new novel "The Reed Warbler"
Fiction writer, critic, essayist, art curator and former NZ Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde has a new book out. The Reed Warbler is his eighth novel and is being billed as a masterpiece. A work of fiction… Audio