Welcome to May and a bumper crop of cultural events.
There are significant book festivals in Tāmaki Makaurau and the Wairarapa. Its New Zealand Music Month, including the Aotearoa Music Awards. Not to mention the International NZ Comedy Festival, major national art fairs and the annual Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
All of which makes this week's Culture 101 Fast Favourite guest an easy pick, given he embraces all of these fields, often at once.
Ōtepoti Dunedin's David Eggleton is a writer, performer and art critic. He is our former Poet Laureate and a recipient of a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement.
This year Eggleton is the convenor of the judges for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockhams.
And while he's in Tāmaki Makaurau for the awards, his poetry-music duo Wildcards Aotearoa will be performing alongside another longtime collaborator singer songwriter Otis Mace, May 9th and 10th in Kumeu and Point Chevalier respectively.
