Fiction members

The Interview – C.K. Stead

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.
The Interview – Fleur Adcock

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
The Interview – Lloyd Jones

Bernadette Hall and Lloyd Jones discuss the mysteries of language, dangerous jokes and pitching tents in strange lands.

‘The magic occurs in the connecting but voice is what makes us believe.’
In Memory of Sir James McNeish

Bernard Brown's eulogy for acclaimed writer and ANZL Fellow Sir James McNeish.

‘Sir James – literary knight and gentleman’
The Interview – Kevin Ireland

Iain Sharpe grills Kevin Ireland on Crump, Bogart and the New Zealand 'voice'.

‘I named myself after a street in Ponsonby’
The Interview – Elizabeth Smither

Elizabeth Smither and David Hill 'talk of many things', including being a Poet Laureate, and thinking of audiences as rabbits.

‘The big issues are always lurking, even in the smallest subjects’
The Interview – Fiona Kidman

Fiona Kidman talks to Kelly Ana Morey about real life and other fictions.

‘I tend to live inside my characters for a long time when I’m thinking about a book.’

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'I want you to think about what you would like to see at the heart of your national literature ' - Tina Makereti

Academy of New Zealand Literature