Harry Ricketts

This weekend, Wellington's Verb Festival hosts its annual worst poet wins event which rewards aspiring writers for indulging their most cliched, cringeworthy tendencies.

Harry Ricketts is a poet… Audio

Judges Tina Makereti and Harry Ricketts reveal their top five short stories from the hundreds entered in this year's competition. Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews SAGA by Hannah Mettner published by Te Herenga Waka University Press Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews So Shall You Reap by Donna Leon, published by Penguin. Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews James K. Baxter: Complete Poems, edited by John Weir, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press Audio

Novelist and screen writer Fay Weldon died this week She had a 55-year long writing career, and is perhaps most know for her novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil She was shortlisted for the Booker… Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews The Romantic by William Boyd, published by Penguin. Audio

Our Short Story competition judges, writers Harry Ricketts and Rebecca Reilly, announced the five winners of the 2022 Nine to Noon Short Story competition. Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews The Stupefying by Nick Ascroft, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press. Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews A Riderless Horse by Tim Upperton, published by Auckland University Press. Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews The Tip Shop by James Brown, published by Te Herenga Waka Press. Audio

We recently reported the National Library had entered into a contract to dispose of up to 600,000 books. Earlier this evening in Wellington, a group of authors protested the Library's actions. The… Audio

Announcing the winners of the first ever Nine to Noon Short Story Competition! Judges Tina Makareti and Harry Ricketts have selected five stand-outs among almost 1,500 stories entered into the… Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967-75 by Richard Thompson, published by Allen and Unwin. Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews What You Made of It by C.K. Stead, published by AUP. Audio

Harry Ricketts is a poet, editor, biographer and has taught English literature and creative writing at Victoria University in Wellington. During his career he has published more than thirty books. His… Audio

Harry Ricketts reviews Things OK with You? by Vincent O'Sullivan, published by VUP. Audio