- Jun
- 14
On Thursday 14 June between 11:00am–12:00pm, join our live videoconference:
Wordspace: Creative Non-Fiction
Join David Eggleton and Harry Ricketts in a discussion about creative non-fiction. 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 the Southern Trust. To participate, your school will need to be a member of the Book Council.
This session will give your students the chance to ask questions like what makes good creative non-fiction, and how they can write creatively, based on events in their everyday life.
David Eggleton
David Eggeleton
David Eggleton writes poetry, literary reviews, non-fiction, and has also recorded several CDs and films based on his poetry.
He became popular as a performance poet in the 1980s, and has published six books of poetry, including South Pacific Sunrise (Penguin, 1986) which was co-winner of the PEN Best First Book of Poetry Award in 1987. Eggleton has won the BPANZ Book Reviewer of the Year Award four times between 1991 and 2003. He has recorded four CDs of poetry and co-edited two short digital films based on his poetry, as well as winning first prize for TV Arts Documentary in the Qantas Media Awards for his 1996 video For Arts Sake – Art and Politics – Performance Poet David Eggleton. Eggleton has edited two anthologies of New Zealand natural non-fiction in collaboration with Craig Potton, and in 2003 published Ready to Fly: The Story of New Zealand Rock Music (Craig Potton, 2003). His most recent publication is a book of poetry called Fast Talker (AUP, 2006).
Eggleton’s publication list includes the following: Fast Talker (Auckland University Press, 2006); Ready to Fly: The Story of New Zealand Rock Music (Craig Potton, 2003); The Cloud Forest (Film, 2002); Rhyming Planet (Steele Roberts, 2001); Seasons: The New Zealand Year (Craig Potton Press, 2001); Versifier (CD, 2001); Teleprompter (Film, 2001); Baxter (CD, 2000); Here on Earth (Craig Potton Publishing, 1999); Seeing Voices (CD,1999); For Arts Sake – Art and Politics – Performance Poet David Eggleton (Film, 1996); Empty Orchestra (Auckland University Press, 1995); Poetry Demon (CD, 1993); People of the Land (Penguin, 1988); After Tokyo (Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 1987); South Pacific Sunrise (Penguin, 1986).
Harry Ricketts
Harry Ricketts
Harry Ricketts is a literary scholar, and writes poetry and reviews. He has written eight books of poetry and selected writings, including Coming Here, his first collection published in New Zealand in 1989. He has done much to encourage student literary work, editing the annual Writings throughout the 1980s. Ricketts has published several internationally renowned non-fiction books, including the acclaimed than The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling (Chatto & Windus, 1999.) He currently edits New Zealand Books, and is the programme director for English at Victoria University.
Ricketts’ publication list includes the following: How to Catch a Cricket Match (Awa Press, 2006); Your Secret Life (HeadworX Publishers, 2005); Spirit Abroad: A Second Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse (ed., Godwit, 2004); How to Live Elsewhere (Four Winds Press, 2004); Spirit in a Strange Land (ed., Godwit, 2002); Plunge (Pemmican Press, 2001); The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling (Pimlico, 2000); Nothing to Declare: Selected Writings 1977 – 1997 (HeadworX, 1998); How You Doing? (ed., 1998); Under Review: A Selection from ‘New Zealand Books’ 1991-1996 (ed., Lincoln University Press & Daphne Brassel Associates, 1997); Worlds of Katherine Mansfield (essays, Nagare Press, 1991); 13 Ways (Pemmican Pres, 1998); A Brief History of New Zealand Literature (Fawthorpe Garlick, 1996); How Things Are (Daphne Brassell, 1996); Coming Under Scrutiny (Original Books, 1989); Coming Here (Nagare Press, 1989); Talking About Ourselves (Mallinson Rendel, 1986); One Lady at Wairakei (Mallinson Rendel, 1983); People Like Us (Hong Kong, 1977).
To register for this videoconference, email: digitalconversations@cwa.co.nz or telephone: (04) 382 6515 by Thursday 14 June 2007
