Writers on Mondays – Making and Mending: Chris Tse, Cadence Chung, Gregory Kan, Jiaqiao Liu, and Nina Mingya Powles
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Four innovative poets discuss how their creative pursuits outside poetry shape and reinvent their latest collections with the New Zealand Poet Laureate.
Mon 28 Jul 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
Rongomaraeroa, the marae, Level 4
Free event with museum entry
A poet’s toolbox is filled with techniques to help them kick-start or rebuild a poem, but sometimes the tried and true tricks aren’t enough. How can poets engage with other forms of art and artmaking to challenge and reinvent how poetry is written?
New Zealand Poet Laureate Chris Tse talks with Cadence Chung (Mad Diva), Gregory Kan (Clay Eaters), Jiaqiao Liu (Dear Alter), and Nina Mingya Powles (In the Hollow of the Wave) about how their creative pursuits and interests outside poetry shape and inform their latest collections.
Left to right: Gregory Kan, Jiaqiao Liu, Nina Mingya Powles, Chris Tse, and Cadence Chung. Cadence Chung photo by Kirsty McCleod