Writers on Monday
The International Institute of Modern Letters is home to Victoria University's renowned creative writing programme. From mid-July to October each year, it runs a series of events highlighting writers in and around Wellington. Welcome to this, the first Writers on Mondays event for 2011.
This year we also travel further afield. In addition to our Wellington-based poets, we welcome one from Australia, one from Christchurch, and Joy Harjo, a renowned poet, musician, and world traveller who joins us from Anchorage, Alaska. There are cutting-edge playwrights, one from Whakatane; and prose writers from Dunedin and Christchurch as well as those closer to home.
The Writers on Mondays festival continues to be a lively and stimulating way to begin the week – and it’s free!
All welcome.
From the country of poetry
Airini Beautrais, Jenny Bornholdt, and Bernadette Hall talk with Bill Manhire about their latest poetry collections.
Airini Beautrais’ second collection, Western Line, was published by Victoria University Press (VUP) earlier this year. (Her first collection, Secret Heart, was named Best First Book of Poetry in the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.)
Jenny Bornholdt’s new collection of poems, The Hill of Wool (VUP, 2011), was written while she was Writer in Residence at Victoria University last year. The expansive prose poems of her previous book, The Rocky Shore (VUP, 2008), gained for her the Montana New Zealand Poetry Award in 2009.
Bernadette Hall’s ninth collection of poetry, The Lustre Jug (VUP, 2009), was a runner-up in last year’s Awards. This year she is a Teaching Fellow at the International Institute of Modern Letters.
Bill Manhire will chair this session. His latest poetry collection is The Victims of Lightning (VUP, 2010).
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