Hone Tuwhare
Charlotte Yates on her decades of turning iconic NZ poetry into songs
Charlotte Yates explores the history of her series of musical collaborations between contemporary composers and the work of New Zealand's finest writers at the 2021 Going West Festival. Audio
Hone Tuwhare's legacy in crib residency
More than a decade after commiting to make poet Hone Tuwhare's final home a creative residence - his whanau is almost finished restoring and refurbishing the property. In 1992 poet Hone Tuwhare bought… Audio
NZ Biography: Poet and Orator, Hone Tuwhare
Hone Tuwhare, the boilermaker from Northland who didn't have enough money to attend high school and went on to become one of our most esteemed poets. Audio, Gallery
NZ poets inspire Kiwi composers
The wealth of New Zealand poetry has been a rich source of inspiration for New Zealand composers since the 1940s. Video
John Cranna: taking the Creative Hub to Kaitaia
It's hard for some parts of the country to cut a break. Northland, for example, is usually in the news because of stories about poverty, ill health, violence and most recently kauri dieback. But… Audio
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien
Kim Hill talks to painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien, who discusses The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, and the new edition of Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works… Audio
Poet's crib to become writers' residence
Hone Tuwhare's crib in Otago is getting a $100,000 spruce-up for use in a writers' residency.
Poetry with Gregory O'Brien - Puna Wai Korero
Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien is the author of a number of books, most recently the collection Beauties of the Octagonal Pool (AUP, 2012). He will discuss Puna Wai Korero: an… Audio
The Making of Tuwhare (Part 1) on Musical Chairs
In memory of poet Hone Tuwhare, who died in January 2008. In the first of a three part Musical Chairs special, Lynn Freeman follows the making of the Tuwhare CD with Charlotte Yates and some of the… Audio
Hone Tuwhare 2001 interview during Te Ahi Kaa
We remember a poet who's love of the written and spoken word captivated a nation, Hone Tuwhare. Audio