The Interview – Fleur Adcock
Fleur Adcock talks with Emma Neale - 2017
Fleur Adcock and Emma Neale discuss parallel activities, chance findings and the many angles of place.
‘There are so many different kinds of poem’ – Fleur Adcock
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‘Poems have tended to ambush me every few decades.’ – Fiona Kidman
50 Years of NZ Book Awards: Albert Wendt
Winning words: Albert Wendt's novel 'Leaves of the Banyan Tree'
50 Years of NZ Book Awards: Lloyd Jones
Winning words: Lloyd Jones's novel 'The Book of Fame'
Fiction and Factions: the Political Novel in New Zealand
Fiona Farrell: What makes a work of the imagination ‘political’?
Vision Test
David Taylor assesses the 20/20 Poetry Collection, and what we’re exploring – and avoiding – in our literature of unease.
50 Years of NZ Book Awards: Maurice Gee
Winning words: Maurice Gee's novel 'Plumb'
Writing in Disguise
Stephanie Johnson on definitions and disguises, and the risks of writing under a pseudonym.
Conversation/Kōrero: Robert Sullivan and Billy Kahora
Billy Kahora and Robert Sullivan discuss ‘Ka Mate’, mother tongues, and precarious worlds.
'The book just seemed to fall out of me' - Lloyd Jones