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Robin Robertson in conversation with Harry Ricketts at the National Library
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Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship now open for applications
The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship Advisory Committee is looking for an established creative writer to spend three months or more in Menton in southern France to work on a project or projects.
Tihe Mauriora, e nga iwi o te motu, anei he karahipi whakaharahara. Ko te Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship tenei karahipi. Kia kaha koutou ki te tonohia mo tenei putea tautoko. Mena he tangata angitu koe i tenei karahipi, ka taea e koe haere ki te Whenua Wiwi ki te whakamahi to kaupapa, kei te mohio koe, ko te manu i kai i te matauranga nona te ao. Ko koe tena?
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Poetry Day audio invite: An excellent celebration of poetry on Lately with Karyn Hay
From RNZ:
We’re getting listeners to download our Voxpop app onto their smartphones and read a two minute poem so we can play it on air during the show all week.
If you write poems and would like to read one to be heard on Lately with Karyn Hay next week on RNZ National, we’d love to hear it. Download the RNZ Voxpop App from the Appstore or wherever you get your apps, and read a short poem of up to two minutes onto it. Simple as that. Make sure you say who you are, and what it’s called and – if you like, other deets such as where it’s been published. Karyn will play it on air next week on her show. We already have lots of poems to play, some from published authors, others from complete novices. Have a go! And please, share away!!
Instructions for the app:
1. To download the VoxPop app search for “RNZ VoxPop” in the app store on your iPhone or android phone.
You can find also find the app here:
2. Give yourself a username and give the app permission to use the microphone.
3. Select the question you wish to answer and it will bring up the microphone to begin recording.
4. Touch the microphone in the red circle to begin recording and then touch it again to end recording. You can “replay” to listen back and if you are happy hit the “publish” button to send the reading to us.
If you have any issues or questions email me: ceinwen.curtis@radionz.co.nz
National Poetry Day
Poetry Day event: where the wild words are
Poetry Shelf audio Spot: Jeffrey Paparoa Holman reads ‘Toroa Feeding – Taiaroa Heads’
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman reads ‘Toroa Feeding – Taiaroa Heads’, from Fly Boy (Steele Roberts: 2010).
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman is a Christchurch poet and a writer of non-fiction, and senior adjunct fellow in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at the University of Canterbury. Born in London, Jeffrey immigrated to New Zealand in 1950, growing up in the Devonport naval base in Auckland, then the coal mining town of Blackball on the West Coast of the South Island. He has worked as a sheep-shearer, postman, psychiatric social worker and bookseller.
Jeffrey’s poetry collection As Big as a Father was longlisted for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards (2003). In 2007, Jeffrey and Martin Edmond won the Copyright Licensing Limited Award giving them $35,000 each towards a non-fiction project. Best of Both Worlds: The Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau, was published by Penguin in 2010. Jeffrey was the 2011 Waikato University Writer-in-Residence and in the same year shortlisted for the Ernest-Scott History prize, Australia. In 2012, he was awarded the Creative New Zealand University of Iowa Residency. The resulting book, The Lost Pilot: A Memoir was published by Penguin NZ (2013). In 2014, Jeffrey travelled to Berlin on a Goethe-Institute scholarship, pursuing research for his current project, a family history based on links with his German relations.
Jeffrey’s SHAKEN DOWN 6.3: Poems from the Second Christchurch Earthquake was published by Canterbury University Press in 2012. His most recent collection, Blood Ties: New and Selected Poems was published by Canterbury University Press in 2017.
Poetry Day: Best NZ Poems event at Te Papa
Once again Wellington pulls out the stops on Poetry Day – this for a tasty start!
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Gregory O’Brien’s ‘On drinking water’
On drinking water
What besides
pure water a glass
of water contains:
of the sky nothing
necessarily, but always
something
of the cavernous
substratum
calcium, potassium
the wooden ladder we climb
down into the chasm
to swim.
©Gregory O’Brien
This poem was included in a painting of mine in the Water Project exhibition, curated by Shirin Khosraviani at the Ashburton Art Gallery. The exhibition has just come down–but will be touring the nation over the next year or two. Pic of the painting, ‘Ode to a South Island water molecule’:
Gregory O’Brien is currently living in Alexandra, Central Otago, where he is working on a new collection of poems and finishing Always song in the water, a book of travels in Northland and aquatic regions north of there.
nzepc presents poet Lola Ridge’s author page
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nzepc presents Lola Ridge’s New Zealand and Australia, an author page that includes Ridge’s antipodean poetry and video of biographer Terese Svoboda reading and talking about Lola Ridge in Hokitika, where the poet lived 1880-1903.
This long overdue collection of writings, images and recordings in the one place will open up avenues into a poet who got lost in the shadows. Thanks again to the dedicated excavation work of Michele Leggott and Brian Flaherty.
Minarets on National Poetry Day
Auckland you are really shaping up for Poetry Day!
At Jacket 2: Vaughan Rapatahana and Tusiata Avia – poems and conversation
A Readers and Writers evnet with the New Zealand Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh, who performed her epic “The Queen’s Sequence”, inspired by her meeting Queen Elizabeth II in 2016 and other queens. After the interval fellow poets Tusiata Avia, Serie Barford and former Laureate Jenny Bornholdt who shared selected readings, with poet Paula Green as chair. Tusiata Avia.
A Readers and Writers evnet with the New Zealand Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh, who performed her epic “The Queen’s Sequence”, inspired by her meeting Queen Elizabeth II in 2016 and other queens. After the interval fellow poets Tusiata Avia, Serie Barford and former Laureate Jenny Bornholdt who shared selected readings, with poet Paula Green as chair. Tusiata Avia.
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Vaughan Rapatahana’s interview with Tusiata Avia – with a generous serving of poems – is unmissable. Here is just one question that got me musing:
Would you define yourself as a Kiwi poet having a perspective that is different than the ‘normal’/mainstream (i.e. generally, Pākehā New Zealander) one? If so, how so?
It’s a funny old thing defining myself. Certainly other people: reviewers, academics, and the like define me as different to the mainstream, but in my experience they like to use their pegs to stake me out in a certain shape. It would be disingenuous to say I wasn’t (different to the Pākehā mainstream) but the defining always makes me squirm. I get really uncomfortable with the binary of mainstream and other. I don’t like being other. Or othered.
My good friend Hinemoana Baker once said something along the lines of: I reserve the right to be what ever it is I am feeling at the time. I think she was quoting someone else — but it was in reference to being of mixed heritage. The point being, right at the moment, as I write this I don’t feel like claiming the Pasifika space, the Samoan space, the mixed heritage space or the Kiwi space. As a poet/ writer, there is a much broader space I can move about in.
