Poetry

UK-based New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock is marking her recent 85th birthday with the publication of her Collected Poems. Adcock talks to Kim Hill about her career and reads some of her favourite poems… Video, Audio

As it's Valentine's Day we thought we'd celebrate love poems. Audio

New Zealand poet and Landfall editor Charles Brasch and the Kapiti Expressway, there is a connection for Kapiti Coast poet Lynn Jenner in the new poetry and essay collection she's working on called… Audio

Emergency Poet was conceived by poet and writer Deborah Alma as a fun way of bringing poetry to people. After six years of dispensing poems as cures from the back of an old ambulance, Alma is… Audio

Sales of poetry is soaring. The Guardian attributes the popularity of poetry to a rise in passion for politics, especially among teenagers and millennials. Sales hit an all-time high in the UK last… Audio

Today's Kiwi Rules guest Kevin Ireland is a poet, short story writer, novelist and librettist - someone who writes texts for musicals. He has had an incredibly successful career and among the many… Audio

Jo Randerson is an artist whose career it seems knows no bounds - she is best known currently as a director, performer and producer with Barbarian Productions the theatre company she established with… Audio, Gallery

Sarah Ross is an associate professor in English at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research focuses on the writing of women in the Renaissance and early modern period, and especially on the… Audio

Steve Braunias is an author, journalist, critic and publisher. He has served as the poetry editor for The Spinoff for four years, and is about to step aside from that role. Before doing so, he has… Audio

Journalist and author Colin Hogg is a long-time friend of New Zealand poet Sam Hunt. He's now written a book - his second about Hunt, the first was Angel Gear - that's a tale of friendship between two… Audio

The current National Poetry Slam champion, Christchurch poet Daisy Lavea-Timo - who performs as Daisy Speaks - is about to relinquish her hard won crown. Daisy is the first Christchurch champion and… Audio

British-Jamaican Raymond Antrobus is a spoken word poet and social commentator who was diagnosed with deafness at the age of six. He is the author of three poetry collections - Shapes &amp… Audio

Is the arts a place where women have equal opportunity? And if not, why not? That's the big question at hand in Episode Six of RNZ podcast, Beyond Kate. Audio

Dunedin poet Ruth Arnison established Poems in the Waiting Room in 2008 to inject some life into waiting rooms.  Audio

Doireann Ní Ghríofa writes prose and poetry, in both Irish and English. She works on cross-disciplinary collaborations, fusing poetry with film, dance, music, and visual art. Born in Galway in 1981… Audio

Researchers claim music and poetry can ease pain and depression, and increase a person's "hope". Audio

Palmerston North poet Paula Harris recently won an international poetry prize. She joins us to read part of her winning poem, you will dig me from the earth with your bare hands, in order to resurrect… Audio

Award-winning Scottish poet Robin Robertson this year released the book-length narrative poem, The Long Take - it is the first book of poetry to be long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the… Audio

For 60 years, Otago University's Robert Burns Fellowship has helped dozens of writers take chances and produce significant, unforgettable work. Audio