2 Oct 2023

Winter spent living in a yurt helps inspire Taranaki writer

From Nights, 10:30 pm on 2 October 2023

Many writers have used isolation to mine the inner reaches of the creative subconscious. Gus Hellen is following in those footsteps, The 29-year-old, has published his first book of poetry after spending a Taranaki Winter living out of a yurt. He talks to Mark Leishman about how the isolation helped his writing.