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The best books of 2022
Writers Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch join Kim Hill to share their favourite books of the year. From a tour of sea creatures to a novel with four versions of the same story, and a history of bodily… Audio
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Elizabeth Smither's poems about home, family and mortality
Audio 4 Dec 2022In the 47 years since Elizabeth Smither published her first poetry collection, Here Come the Clouds, she's won numerous awards and was our Poet Laureate in the early 2000s. Her latest collection My… Audio
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Devoney Looser: the Porter sisters, forgotten literary revolutionaries
Audio 4 Dec 2022University of Arizona English professor Devoney Looser is the author of Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës. Audio
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Celeste Ng: creating a realistic dystopia in Our Missing Hearts
American author Celeste Ng is best known for her novel Little Fires Everywhere, a family drama set in Celeste's own hometown; the upscale suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio. bvShe now has a new book, Our… Audio
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Poet Joanna Cho is a people person
Audio 27 Nov 2022There is a right way of washing dishes and a wrong way - and Kiwis do it the wrong way according to Joanna Cho's debut poetry collection, People Person. The South Korean-born, now Wellington-based… Audio
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Review: Emily
Emily is a "fictionalized biography" of the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Anne and Emily. In particular it's about how Emily's masterpiece Wuthering Heights was created. Starring Emma Mackey… Video, Audio
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Amplified | Episode 4 | Samara Alofa
Audio 23 Nov 2022Jess grabs a drink with Samara Alofa, a child of Te-Moana-nui-akiwa, to talk teen raves, liturgical singing and their brooding debut album Earth Punk. Video
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‘The heart of the matter’ – that’s what reading is to Dame Fiona Kidman
Audio 20 Nov 2022The 2022 Read NZ Te Pou Muramura Panui features the eminent writer Dame Fiona Kidman talking about her life as a reader and writer. Audio
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Musician Christine White's multilingual Raven Project
Learning to speak Farsi as well as collaborating with around 50 musicians on several original tracks has taken up much of the last three years for Christine White. She's called it The Raven Project -… Video, Audio
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The forgotten women of medieval history
BBC documentary maker and Oxford historian Dr Janina Ramirez unveils the women forgotten by history. In her new book; Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It, Dr… Audio
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Bill Bradford's poetry reflects his early life as a shepherd
Audio 6 Nov 2022Former shepherd turned activist Bill Bradford reflects on his many years, first looking after flocks of sheep and later disadvantaged workers in his first poetry collection, No Rising of the Sheep… Audio
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Jazz meets Poetry
With the release of an album of music inspired by poet Hone Tuwhare by the Rodger Fox Big Band, Nick checks out jazz inspired by Langston Hughes, Bill Manhire, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe. Audio
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Napier poet Jeremy Roberts looks back on life in Indonesia
Audio 30 Oct 2022The Dark Cracks of Kemang - The Bajai Boys in Indonesia is the enticing title of a memoir by Napier-based poet Jeremy Roberts. The book concentrates on his and his friends' years in Indonesia, where… Audio
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Why Stevie Nicks' music matters so much
The music of Stevie Nicks matters. This declaration comes from a professor of music at Princeton University, Simon Morrison, who spends his days steeped in Tchaikovsky as an expert in Russian and… Audio
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Translating Aotearoa poetry to Spanish
Audio 23 Oct 2022Mexican-born poet Rogelio Guedea has been instrumental in making New Zealand poetry accessible to Hispanic audiences internationally. He's translated the work of more than 60 Kiwi poets into Spanish… Audio
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Dunedin teen wins short story competition for the second time
A Dunedin teenager has taken out the top spot of the Sargeson secondary schools short story competition - for the second year running. Shima Jack talks to Jesse about her award-winning writing. Audio
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Art Chemist prescribing arts at Nelson Arts Festival
Eleven days of must see arts events kicks off in the top of the South Island tommorow. At the Nelson Arts Festival you can get arts on prescription - to look at a painting, read some poetry or immerse… Audio
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Indy Yelich: the debut single from Lorde’s sister
Audio 16 Oct 2022Indy Yelich – a New York-based musician and the little sister of Lorde – has released her debut single. 'Threads' is about the ups and downs of being in love at 23, Indy says. "I think of New York… Video, Audio
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Alice Te Punga Somerville and the politics of italics
Audio 9 Oct 2022Maori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville has launched her first poetry collection from her new home - in Canada. She has several academic books to her name but Always Italicise - How to… Audio
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Roger Fox: A homage to Hone Tuwhare
Audio 9 Oct 2022Roger Fox is synonymous with the Big Band scene in New Zealand. He is our foremost jazz trombonist, big band leader, jazz educator and producer. He has performed in concert with some of the biggest… Audio
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Nick Ascroft: a nearly award-winning word finder
Poet Nick Ascroft considers one of his claims to fame to be "nearly winning the Kathleen Grattan Prize four times, the most anyone has nearly won it". Which might partly explain why his fifth… Audio
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Simone Kaho's healing poetry
Audio 25 Sep 2022Simone Kaho's poetry collection HEAL! offers up an uncompromising account of an assault that left her traumatised with PTSD, and at times, seemingly without hope. But the Tongan-Pakeha writer is a… Audio
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Toby Manhire: reporting in from the local body campaign trail
The Spinoff's editor-at-large Toby Manhire has been spending much of his recent time following the highs and lows of the local body election campaigns across the country. Audio
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No other place to stand - climate change poetry
Audio 18 Sep 2022It's easy to imagine that a new collection of Climate Change poetry from around the Pacific could be overwhelmingly a picture of doom and gloom. But what the four Kiwi editors of No Other Place to… Audio
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Elizabeth Morton's beast-eye view of climate change
Audio 11 Sep 2022Creatures trying to survive as the world around them burns express their fears, their anger and their hopes in Naming the Beasts, the visceral new poetry collection by Auckland writer, Elizabeth… Audio
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Orpheus Choir of Wellington: Brahms Requiem
The Orpheus Choir of Wellington performs Brahms' renowned 'A German Requiem' at the Michael Fowler Centre in 2022 Audio
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Marlon Williams takes us through the tracks on his new album My Boy
After his highly acclaimed 2018 album Make Way For Love, Marlon Williams "gets in the sandpit" to have some fun on his new record My Boy. "There's a bit of mischief in it. It's my playful record, I'd… Video, Audio
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Bannister & Dickinson
William Dart looks at Matthew Bannister's literary adventure of setting the poetry of Emily Dickinson into song. Audio
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Chris Tse - our latest Poet Laureate
Audio 28 Aug 2022Surprised, honoured and just a bit intimidated... That's how our new Poet Laureate Chris Tse feels about his new role. Given he's only in his thirties, he also sees this acknowledgement as a real… Audio
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Winners of the annual poetry slam competition
Poet and author Tracey Slaughter's been buried under a pile of poems over the past hour - sifting through to find a winner for this year's National slam poetry competition to celebrate National Poetry… Audio