Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield the songwriter
One of the most famous New Zealand writers also dabbled in songwriting. Audio
Summer Pickings
William Dart plays music from the new album by Tattletale Saints and from Karl Steven's soundtrack to the film Bellbird. He's also got a preview track from Charlotte Yates's upcoming release featuring… Video, Audio
Charlotte Yates - putting Katherine Mansfield's words to music
Charlotte Yates has enlisted 12 of the country's top names put Katherine Mansfield's writing, to music. There's jazz and pop through to soul to alt country, with artists including Lawrence Arabia… Audio
Gunter Herbig - the music of Mansfield's favourite mystic
Classical and modern guitarist Gunter Herbig was born in Brazil, grew up in Portugal and Germany, and moved to New Zealand in 1989. A teacher, he was Head of Classical Guitar and Chamber Music at the… Audio
NZ Biography: Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was New Zealand's first and most successful literary figure of note - a central figure in British modernism and short story-telling. Audio
Tamara Patten: day to celebrate Katherine Mansfield
Today marks 130 years since Katherine Mansfield was born and it's also 30 years since her birth place was opened to the public as a museum. There will be celebrations at 25 Tinakori Road in Thorndon… Audio
Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: Happy birthday, Katherine Mansfield!
Writer Katherine Mansfield – one of Wellington's favourite daughters – was born 130 years ago this Sunday, and the capital is throwing her a birthday party. This weekend's birthday party – held at… Audio, Gallery
Mansfield in Bloomsbury
Writer Virginia Wolf was shocked by Katherine Mansfield's 'commonness,' while the New Zealander said she felt like a cat among tigers, on their first meeting. Wellington playwright Lorae Parry is… Audio
Celebrating the life of Katherine Mansfield
It's the 130th anniversary of writer Katherine Mansfield's birth, and her home town is going all out to celebrate the life of one of its favourite daughters. Wellington Arts Festival KM130 encompasses… Audio
Redmer Yska: Katherine Mansfield's first published story
Historian Redmer Yska is the author of A Strange, Beautiful, Excitement: Katherine Mansfield's Wellington 1888-1903. While researching the book Yska discovered Mansfield's first published story… Audio
A bid to repatriate the remains of Katherine Mansfield
The Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society wants the author's remains exhumed and brought back from France. Audio
Katherine Mansfield's poetic side
After several discoveries of previously unknown poems by Katherine Mansfield in recent years, all her authenticated poetry has just been published for the first time in one collection. Co-editor… Audio, Gallery
Sarah Laing: Katherine Mansfield and comics
Kim Hill talks to graphic designer, illustrator, and writer Sarah Laing. She is co-editor (with Rae Joyce and Indira Neville) of Three Words: an Anthology of Aoteraoa/NZ Women's Comics (Beatnik… Audio, Gallery
Treasure trove of Katherine Mansfield poems
Gerri Kimber, the scholar who discovered nearly 30 unknown poems by Katherine Mansfield in a US library, which reveal much about the most painful periods of her life. Audio
Thirty unknown poems by Katherine Mansfield found
A treasure trove of 30 unknown poems by Katherine Mansfield has been found in an American library. Audio
Katherine Mansfield's Urewera Notebook
When we think of Katherine Mansfield, we tend not to think of her as a good, keen, outdoors-woman. Rather more Bloomsbury than Barry Crump. But a camping trip into the Ureweras in 1907 had a lasting… Audio
What I do is build an unreal house and I fill it with real storms
An intensely personal memoir by one of the country's leading writers of fantasy, exploring the roots of her interest in alternative reality, and intertwining her own story, and that of her family into… Audio
Kirsty Gunn: Thorndon and "home"
Novelist, short story writer, and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Dundee, who writes about her "Katherine Mansfield project" in her recently published small book Thorndon:… Audio
Jenifer Roberts: Fitz and Christchurch
Historical biographer and author of a number of books, most recently Fitz: the Colonial Adventures of James Edward Fitzgerald. Audio
New Katherine Mansfield discovery
The revelation in 2013 that a new piece of writing by Katherine Mansfield had been unearthed in New Zealand got scholars in a spin – we talk to the woman who found the invaluable document at the… Audio