The Interview – C.K. Stead
Mark Broatch in conversation with C.K Stead - February 2019
Karl Stead and Mark Broatch discuss crossing lines, carrying on and writing well.
‘I’m basically cheerful’. Stead at 86, on the work of a lifetime.
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‘Things turn folkloric if you wait too long.’ – Fleur Adcock
The Immersion Method
Maxine Alterio on researching novels at home and abroad.
Ockham Shortlist 2019: ‘Are Friends Electric?’ by Helen Heath
A poem from the collection shortlisted for this year's Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Ockham Shortlist 2019: ‘The Facts’ by Therese Lloyd
A poem from the collection shortlisted for this year's Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Ockham Shortlist 2019: ‘The Cage’ by Lloyd Jones
An excerpt from the novel shortlisted for this year’s Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Display It Like You Stole It: Letter from London
‘If Oceania is a continent, then it is a continent as complex as Europe’. David Eggleton in London for the Royal Academy of Art’s ‘blockbuster’ show.
Why Aren’t You Reading Queer?
Celebrate Pride month with an LGBTQI book.
Conversation/Kōrero: Robert Sullivan and Billy Kahora
Billy Kahora and Robert Sullivan discuss ‘Ka Mate’, mother tongues, and precarious worlds.
'The thirty-five of us were in the country of dream-merchants, and strange things were bound to happen.' - Anne Kennedy