Tracey Slaughter
National Poetry Day - Winner
Dr Tracey Slaughter announces our annual audience poetry slam competition winner. Audio
National Poetry Day!
Today is National Poetry day and continuing the Afternoons tradition - we'll be holding our annual audience poetry slam competition. To judge again this year we have Dr Tracey Slaughter along in the… Audio
Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook released today
The Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023: Afterburn is out today, featuring 150 new poems. It's the country's longest running poetry magazine - first published in 1951. Dr Tracey Slaughter edited the book. Audio
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
Annual poetry slam competition
The annual Afternoons poetry slam competition is back for 2022. To celebrate the Phantom Billstickers National Poetry day we invite our listeners to come up with a six line poem using six words we'll… Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 10
If Found Please Return To
The creeping misery of dementia is a catalogue of lost memories.
Told by Katherine McRae Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 9
If There is No Shelter - Pt 3
A woman stays with her traumatised father in post-quake Christchurch while struggling to deal with her own betrayal.
Told by Harriet Prebble Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 8
If There is No Shelter - Pt 3
A woman stays with her traumatised father in post-quake Christchurch while struggling to deal with her own betrayal.
Told by Harriet Prebble Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 7
If There is No Shelter - Pt 2
A woman stays with her traumatised father in post-quake Christchurch while struggling to deal with her own betrayal.
Told by Harriet Prebble Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 6
If There is No Shelter - Pt 1
A woman stays with her traumatised father in post-quake Christchurch while struggling to deal with her own betrayal.
Told by Harriet Prebble Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 5
Lady Birds
A visit to her mate Marty's estranged father's place proves to be a grim eye-opener for our young storyteller.
Told by Stevie Hancox-Monk
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Devils Trumpet - Pt 4
Holding the Torch
A woman reflects warmly on a holiday spent with a girlfriend and their mothers at the beach, warmly that is, until one of the fathers arrived.
Told by Mel Dodge Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 3
25 - 13
A mother and stalwart of the rugby club, does the hard yards as the carer for her disabled son.
Told by Carmel McGlone
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Devils Trumpet - Pt 2
Cicada Motel
The Cicada Motel is just somewhere for a woman to be while she waits for him to cut the strings.
Told by Amy Tarleton Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 1
The Receiver
A small drama plays out at a boys eighteenth birthday revealing a larger tragedy for the father and narrator of the story.
Told by William Kircher Audio
The Devil's Trumpet sounds
There is a real edge to the latest short stories by writer Tracey Slaughter, containing cautionary tales for people considering illicit relationships through to a dig at New Zealand's attitude to… Audio
Bookmarks: Tracey Slaughter
We're talking to short fiction writer and poet, Tracey Slaughter, for Bookmarks this week. Tracey is the editor of Poetry New Zealand's Yearbook 2021 and also has a book of short stories 'Devil's… Audio
Lately Bookclub: Tracey Slaughter's Short Back & Sides
It's time for Lately Book Club where we go exploring in the world of literature and invite you to come along. Tracey Slaughter's short fiction and poetry have been widely anthologized in New Zealand… Audio
Tracey Slaughter's memories of suburbs in the Seventies
Macrame pot plant holders, Tupperware, cork tiles and corduroy beanbags, and the yearning soundtrack provided by the Carpenters. In Tracey Slaughter's poetry collection Conventional Weapons the… Audio
Tracey Slaughter - Deleted Scened for Lovers
Prize-winning short fiction writer and essayist Tracey Slaughter's new collection of short stories has been a long time coming, but it's been worth the wait. Tracey talks about and reads from 'Deleted… Audio