David Eggleton
Book awards and fast favourites with David Eggleton
Welcome to May and a bumper crop of cultural events - which makes this week's Culture 101 Fast Favourite guest an easy pick, given he embraces all fields, often at once. Otepoti Dunedin's David… Audio
Pub poetry event set to honour New Zealand poet legend
An election day in Dunedin event is set to combine politics, poetry and pubs. Seven poets will feature at the event at the bar Woof! as part of the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival, which kicks… Audio
National Flash Fiction Day celebrated
Yesterday was the shortest day of the year and with that comes the annual National Flash Fiction Day. The competition has been running since 2012 and it celebrates short stories in all their glory. Audio
David Eggleton: The Wilder Years
There is almost 40 years of poetry for Poet Laureate David Eggleton to choose from for his new Best Of anthology. The Dunedin based writer has called his collection of selected poems The Wilder Years… Audio
David Eggleton: Poet Laureate
New Zealand’s current Poet Laureate, performance poet, reviewer and non-fiction writer, David Eggleton, talks about his role as a composer of poems for the nation. Audio
The new, provocative Poet Laureate
Dunedin 'poet provocateur' David Eggleton has big plans for his two year tenure as New Zealand's Poet Laureate. Since the 1980s the the multi-award winning performance poet, critic, editor and… Audio
New poet laureate David Eggleton
The Dunedin-based poet, writer and critic David Eggleton has just been appointed as New Zealand's next poet laureate, a position he will hold until 2021. Coming to prominence as a performance poet and… Audio
Writer of Tongan Rotuman heritage awarded Fulbright scholarship
A writer of Tongan and Rotuman heritage gets a Fulbright Creative NZ residency in Hawaii. Audio
David Eggleton on poetry for all
Unleashing the power of poetry, David Eggleton is the editor of the country's leading literary magazine, Landfall and he says poetry affects people of all ages. It's National Poetry Day on Friday, an… Audio
Landfall editor David Eggleton
New 'Landfall' editor David Eggleton has just released a book of poetry called 'Time of the Icebergs'. Audio
