Poetry

Friday is National Poetry Day. To celebrate, we're joined by the Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh from Waiheke Island and Erik Kennedy, a Christchurch-based poet whose debut book of poems will be… Audio

After a decline in readers poetry is making a comeback in the United States. The main group taking to poetry again is 18-24 year-olds. They're reading everything from verses on Twitter to Tennyson. Audio

Expat Alice Miller is a literary talent on the rise. She grew up in Eastbourne, Wellington, and has lived and published in the US and Europe. She now lives in Berlin and her latest collection of… Audio

Hollie McNish is a UK poet based between London, Cambridge and Glasgow. She has two poetry collections - Cherry Pie and Papers and an album Versus, which made her the first poet to record at Abbey… Audio

Writer Owen Marshell may have been born in Te Kuiti but in his soul he's a Southern Man, a champion of the people and landscapes of Canterbury and Otago. While best known for his novels and short… Audio

The largest collection of New Zealand poetry is being stored in a converted double garage in suburban Wellington. Dr Niel Wright has amassed more than 5,000 works in his retro-fitted garage.  Audio

In today's episode, credibility returns to the podcast in the form of Football Fern Sarah Gregorius, who joins RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson to talk about England's long-awaited penalty joy… Audio

Sam Duckor Jones is a talented young artist best known for his distinctive, whimiscal clay sculptures of men - characters he sends out into the world. But sculpture is just one of Sam's media. He is… Audio, Gallery

For a culture to progress - or even exist - it needs the chance to tell its stories. And Maori and Pacific performers have experienced a massive growth in the popularity of spoken word poetry - in… Audio, Gallery

In today's episode of Squeaky Bum Time, RNZ's FIFA World Cup podcast, hosts Emile Donovan and Max Towle welcome back The Totally Football Show's Iain Macintosh to talk German despair, English cynicism… Audio

This month in our literary slot we're focusing on poets with interesting new volumes of poetry. The Facts is the second book of verse by Therese Lloyd, following 2013's Other Animals, published by… Audio

June 2018 on Standing Room Only we are featuring a series of interviews by Mark Amery with New Zealand poets with new books just out. Our first is with Wellington poet Helen Heath whose second book of… Audio

Poūkahangatus is the debut collection by Victoria University International Institute of Modern Letters graduate and Adam Foundation Prize winner Tayi Tibble. Audio

Harry Ricketts is Professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University, where he teaches literature and creative writing. He has convened the Creative Nonfiction… Audio

Taranaki-based Elizabeth Smither is a poet, novelist and short story writer and she has published several works in each genre. She has received several awards, including being named the 2002 Te Mata… Audio

Poet Peter Bland speaks to Karyn Hay about his two new collections of Poems.  Audio

Poet, novelist, performer, librettist, and one-time presidential candidate Eileen Myles moved to New York to be a poet in 1974. They found fame as part of the St Mark's Poetry Project, studying with… Audio

After reckoning with the dead in the award-winning How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, Chris Tse has turned to issues of identity and how to live today in his powerful second collection. he's so MASC… Audio

Poet, performer and game-maker Harry Josephine Giles grew up on Orkney, Scotland, and now lives in Edinburgh where they founded spoken words platform Inky Fingers, co-directs the quarterly performance… Audio