This performance is changed

CHANGE IN PROGRAMME

This session has been cancelled due to author illness. A new event Poetry is Another Country featuring Michael Hulse and Hinemoana Baker replaces this event.  Ticket holders may simply use their Beauty and Social Justice ticket to attend Poetry is Another Country.  Alternatively, to exchange to another Writers & Readers Embassy session please contact the Festival office 04 473 0149 for details on how to do so.

Poetry is Another Country

British poet and translator Michael Hulse and local poet, singer-songwriter and recording artist Hinemoana Baker read from their acclaimed collections and discuss their work. Michael Hulse is a teacher, poet and translator whose recent books include The 20th Century in Poetry, an anthology he co-edited with Simon Rae, and The Secret History, a collection of his own poetic works. Hinemoana Baker is one of New Zealand’s most exciting poets. Her compelling second collection of poetry is kōiwi kōiwi – with her work described by Paula Green from The Listener as ‘...graceful, thoughtful and melodic. They are also twisty, stretching and unexpected. I loved this collection.’