On Thursday 18 May from 11.30am to 12.30pm, join our live videoconference
WordSpace: Poetry
Join Glenn Colquhoun and Jenny Bornholdt in a discussion about poetry. WordSpace is a series of videoconference discussions between secondary school students and leading New Zealand writers, brought to you by the New Zealand Book Council and CWA New Media. To participate, your school will need to be a member of the Book Council.
The session will consider questions like what makes a good poem, and what it means to be a poet in New Zealand in the 21st century. The poets will read from their work and answer questions from the students.
Note: CK Stead was to be a panellist in this session, but had to withdraw due to other commitments.
Glenn Colquhoun
Glenn Colquhoun is a doctor, poet and author of children’s picture books Uncle Glenn and Me and Uncle Glenn and Me Too. His first collection of poetry, The Art of Walking Upright (1999) is ‘about belonging, discovering a place to stand, finding what it means to be Pakeha, and what it means to be human’.
In 2004 he was awarded the Prize in Modern Letters. Glenn has also won numerous awards for his poetry, including winning both the Poetry Category and Readers’ Choice Award at the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards for his collection, Playing God.
Jenny Bornholdt
Jenny Bornholdt is a poet and anthologist. Born in Wellington, she holds a BA in English Literature and a Diploma in Journalism. Her works include This Big Face (1988), Moving House (1989), Waiting Shelter (1991), How We Met (1995), Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems (1997) and These Days (2000).
With her husband poet Gregory O’Brien, she co-edited My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems (1996), and, with Mark Williams and O’Brien, An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (1997), which won the 1997 Montana Book Award for Poetry. Jenny won the 2002 Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, which resulted in the collection Summer (2003). She was a recipient of one of the 2003 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Awards and in 2005 she became the fifth Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate.
TO REGISTER FOR THIS VIDEO-CONFERENCE, CONTACT digitalconversations@cwa.co.nz BY MONDAY 8 MAY 2006.
Telephone: (04) 382 6506
The Book Council will be creating a DVD of this session, which will be available for schools to purchase. If your school takes part in the session, please be aware that we will need signed permission forms from all participating students.
