Poetry

Courtney Sina Meredith is an Auckland poet and mentor to young poets in South Auckland. She joins us from Auckland airport where 10 of her students are performing their work. Audio

Neutrinos is a poem by Janis Freegard from her collection The Glass Rooster, published by Auckland University Press Audio

Morgan Bach reads two additional poems, 'Instructions for Herbovores' and 'Raw Ginger' from her new poetry collection, Some of Us Eat the Seeds. Audio

Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing the new collection by Morgan Bach, Some of Us Eat the Seeds, and anticipating National Poetry Day. Audio

Birdling's Flat is an iconic coastal settlement on Banks Peninsula's Kaitorete Spit with a mixture of holiday and permanent low cost homes. It is well known for its gemstones and eeling and it is one… Audio, Gallery

Auckland fine art film curator Mark Williams has commissioned six film makers to respond to the poetry of Whanganui artist Joanna Margaret Paul: a film-maker, poet, photographer and painter, never… Audio

Roger Lusby's skills define versatility:- mechanic, builder, craftsman, recording engineer, musician, balladeer, performance poet. Based on experience, he's written about fruit picking in Central… Audio

In front of a Wellington audience, composer Ross Harris, film-maker Louis Sutherland and poets Geoff Cochrane and Bill Manhire discuss differences and similarities in their approaches to creativity… Video, Audio

Having gathered a stack of awards for her poetry and a book of hers translated into French, German and Spanish, Helen Vivienne Fletcher has now set her sights on writing for the stage. Her poetry has… Audio

VUW Modern Letters Creative Writing workshop convener Cliff Fell recites the influence of the "classic" poems and poets... Martians and Martian poetry. Audio

An award winning poet is celebrating something rather special today. She's loved to write for years, and she now can do it while being paid. She's Dr Karlo Mila, who has been named the recipient of… Audio

Dunedin novelist, biographer, playwright, short story writer, and New Zealand Poet Laureate, whose new collection, Being Here: Selected Poems, covers the range of his poetry from 1973 to new work… Audio

Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing A Place To Go On From: the Collected Poems of Iain Lonie, edited by David Howard. Audio

Swaying to the broad range of arts and culture from around the Pacific is Samoan/ Pakeha playwright and independent theatre producer Leilani Unasa - where's the next great Pacific novel? Audio

Professor of Contemporary Poetry and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Britain's poet laureate, visiting New Zealand for the 2015 Auckland Writers… Audio

Ya-Wen Ho and Liang Yujing are two talented millennial poets who make bilingualism look easy. Internationally published they're performing their work in English and Chinese, shuttling between… Audio