- Sep
- 19
On Wednesday 19 September between 11:00am–12:00pm, join our live videoconference:
WordSpace: Poetry
Join a discussion with James Brown and Hinemoana Baker about poetry, and what makes it sing. 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 how to begin writing a poem, how to structure a poem and what makes really good poetry.
James Brown
James Brown
James Brown writes poetry and short stories, and has been an editor of several literary collections. Brown’s first collection of poetry, Go Round Power Please (1995) won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 1996. He is a former editor of the literary magazine Sport. He has held the Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary and the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship; and was Writer in Residence at Canterbury University in 2001, and Victoria University in 2004. His most recent book of poetry, The Year of the Bicycle (2006), has been nominated in the Poetry section of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007. He lives in Wellington with his partner and two children where he writes for Te Papa and works also as a freelance editor and writer.
Brown’s publications include: The Year of the Bicycle (Victoria University Press, 2006); The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand Landscape (Craig Potton, 2005); Favourite Monsters (VUP, 2002); Instructions for Poetry Readings as Dr Ernest M Bluespire (Braunias University Press, 2002); Lemon (VUP, 1999); and Go Round Power Please (VUP,1995).
Hinemoana Baker
Hinemoana Baker
Hinemoana Baker is a writer and performer who uses voice, music, poetry, sound effects and sometimes photography in her concerts. Hinemoana’s debut poetry collection mātuhi|needle was published in 2004 in New Zealand (Victoria University Press) and the USA (Perceval Press). Her debut album, Puawai, was launched the same year. Hinemoana’s work featured in Best New Zealand Poems in 2004 and 2006. It has also been published in the literary magazine Sport, the creative writing anthologies Mutes and Earthquakes and Te Torino: The Spiral, and the online literary journal Turbine. In March this year she appeared at the AK07 festival’s production of Tūwhare, a musical tribute to the work of poet Hone Tūwhare. Hinemoana is a full-time writer at home in Paekakariki, and gives readings and workshops at festivals, as well as performing her music and poetry live around New Zealand and overseas.
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.
To register for this videoconference, email: digitalconversations@cwa.co.nz or telephone: (04) 382 6515 by Monday 10 September 2007
