Poetry

Sir Jonathan Bate was knighted this year for his services to literary scholarship. The Professor of English Literature at Oxford University has many strings to his bow, including biographer, critic… Audio

Poet Anna Jackson has been awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship for 2015. She tells Eva about her plans. Audio

Discussing poetry by Peter Bland; a new collection, Expecting Miracles, and his Collected Poems 1956-2011. Features two web only poems read by Peter Bland. Audio

South Otago sheep farmer Ross Agnew, known for his protest song Fart Tax Blues, has published a collection of his poetry in a new book called Farmyard Blues. Audio

Forty years after he first started packing out New Zealand with his plays, Roger Hall has received a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement and he's the first playwright to do so. Roger's… Audio

Pip has been reading poet/rapper's tale of everyday people Brand New Ancients, and Anne Kennedy's The Time of The Giants. Audio

Rising Voices' Grace Taylor is a highly-regarded spoken word poet, teacher and youth development worker. Her debut theatre adaptation, My Own Darling, is a commentary of Auckland told through… Audio

'Small Holes in the Silence' is the latest album from Norman Meehan, Hannah Griffin and Hayden Chisholm. The three jazz musicians have collaborated on a series of tracks, setting some of New Zealand's… Audio

Brings the new jazz releases. Including albums from Norman Meehan, Hannah Griffin, Hayden Chisholm (Small Holes in the Silence) the Stefano Battaglia Trio, and Cecile McLorin Salvant. Audio

Christopher Bowen is back in Christchurch, performing a series of songs by composers Douglas Lilburn, Lyell Cresswell, Patrick Shepherd and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He joins pianist Alison Holden to… Audio

Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing two new collections of poetry: Shaggy Magpie Songs by Murray Edmond, and Generation Kitchen by Richard Reeve. Audio

It turns out the great-great-great-nephew of the man famous for penning The Owl and the Pussy Cat lives in Upper Hutt. Dr Peter Gillies has a collection of artworks and poems that until now have not… Audio

Dan expands our musical horizons with experimental sounds from around the globe. Audio

VUW Modern Letters Creative Writing workshop convener Cliff Fell recites the influence of the "classic" poems and poets. Following on from the Martians, more on publisher-poets like Jonathan Galassi… Audio

Janis Freegard reads her poem 'Albatross' from The Glass Rooster, published by Auckland University Press Audio

Courtney Sina Meredith is an Auckland poet and mentor to young poets in South Auckland. She joins us from Auckland airport where 10 of her students are performing their work. Audio