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THE ART OF THE POEM
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 10.30-11.30AM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Poetry is the craft of language honed to its core – an interplay of words, rhythm and metaphor built line by line, it is perhaps the most simple
yet complex of all the literary forms. Airini Beautrais, James Brown and Choman Hardi discuss the inner workings of poetry, with fellow poet Terese Svoboda.
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FREE EVENT
FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION
ELEMENTAL
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 10.30-11.20AM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Earth, re, air and water are the
fuel for stories from New Zealander returned home Megan Dunn, Australian sensation Jane Harper, and Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlisters Brannavan Gnanalingam and Briar Wood. They share their work across genres in ten minute readings, introduced by Christine O’Brien.
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GENERAL EVENT – GALLERY
WRITERS ON FILM: HONE TUWHARE
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 11.45-12.35PM AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM
A glimpse into the life, art and inimitable style of the late NZ poet Hone Tuwhare. In 1996 Tuwhare allowed Gaylene Preston to lm
him at home, travelling the country reading to students, polishing a poem, drinking, and sharing his views on pretty much everything – Karl Marx’s love life, for example. The warts and all documentary includes footage
of Tuwhare reading from his most loved poems Rain, and No Ordinary Sun. (Runtime 46 mins.) Supported by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta-maki.
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THE EDGE OF EUROPE
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 12.00-1.00PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
by NZ expat-Bulgarian Kapka Kassabova is described by the
LA Review of Books as “that rarest
of things: a travel book with a conscience that is also a compendium
of wonders”. It has won the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year,
the Scottish Book of the Year, and been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction Award.
An accomplished writer of non- ction, ction and poetry, Kassabova explored the borderlands of Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece, a region shaped by forces of history, and in so doing has produced a meditation on interstices – those areas between countries, cultures, others and ourselves.
In discussion with Lloyd Jones.
Supported by Platinum Patrons Mary Biggs & Peter Biggs CNZM.
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MOUSTACHES, WHISKERS AND BEARDS
SUNDAY MAY 20 – 12.00-1.00PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Since time immemorial, men – and occasionally women – have embraced facial hair for social, religious, decorative and climatic reasons.
Using images from London’s National Portrait Gallery, and based on her book Moustaches, Whiskers and Beards, writer and art historian Lucinda Hawksley takes us on a curly and entertaining tour of moustaches, whiskers and beards: from prehistoric to current times, rounding up pharaohs, Vikings, Regency beaus, 1960s’ hippies and hipsters along the way.
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