HUMANS BEING HAPPY: KATE CAMP (2021)

HUMANS BEING HAPPY: KATE CAMP (2021)

Author: Auckland Writers Festival June 15, 2021 Duration: 1:02:12
A highlight of 2020 was the publication of 'How to Be Happy Though Human', a collection of new and previous work by virtuoso poet Kate Camp, which was published in New Zealand, the United States and Canada. Admired by Poet Laureate Dave Eggleton for its “smouldering slow burn, curdled idealism, the salvation army assembly of humorous perceptions” it ranges across eclectic subject matter “like a bumper ride in a fairground, crashing into obstacles, at once jarring and exhilarating”. Wry and deadpan, Camp’s collected works exhibit all of the technical control, musicality and close observational skills for which she has become internationally renowned. In conversation with poet Bill Manhire, she shares the influences and preoccupations that charge her creativity, reads from her work, and leads some inter-poem banter with Manhire’s Ockham NZ Book Awards longlisted collection 'Wow'. ​Supported by Platinum Patrons Mary & Peter Biggs. AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL WAITUHI O TĀMAKI 2021

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Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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PASIFIKA MARAMA QAQA: AVIA, MARSH, MILA (2021) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:44
Oceanic women have always been creators – weaving lives into pandanus mats, printing knowledge onto masi and tapa, bearing tatau memory on skin, weaving words in boundless talanoa. A triumph of preeminent Pasifika women…
THE SHAPE WE'RE IN: STEPHANIE JOHNSON (2021) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:03
THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND FREE LECTURE Twenty-two years ago the Auckland Writers Festival burst into literary life, propelled by the ambitious advocacy of writers Stephanie Johnson and the late Peter Wells who wanted to…
THE 33: ANNE KENNEDY & SARAH WATKINS (2021) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:37
A heartfelt artistic collaboration, The 33, brings together award-winning poet Anne Kennedy and leading New Zealand pianist and Juilliard graduate Sarah Watkins in a tribute to life, grief, writing and music. In 1973, af…
SPEAKERS' CORNER: THE CRIME OF ADOPTION (2021) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:19
Writer and filmmaker Barbara Sumner, author of 'Tree of Strangers', argues that adoption laws, which continue to deny adopted people access to their own information, treat mothers as dispensable and children as interchan…
CROSSING THE LINES: BRENT COUTTS (2021) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:17
Ordinary men living through extraordinary times, New Zealand soldiers Harold Robinson, Ralph Dyer and Douglas Morison shared a queer identity and a love of performance, living as gay men within the military forces during…
FALE AITU: KIGHTLEY & RODGER (2021) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:26
Many ancestral currents, past and present, carried Pasifika peoples from Te-Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa to Aotearoa. Whilst each Pacific identity is unique, experiences of migration, colonialism, and courage are shared, and vividly…
SPEAKERS' CORNER: BEING MALE (2021) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:33
Lawyer and writer Brannavan Gnanalingam is the author of the Ockham NZ Book Awards shortlisted 'Sprigs', a searing interrogation of sexual assault and masculinity. He argues that current cultural norms about being male c…
SPEAKERS' CORNER: THIS PĀHEHĀ LIFE (2021) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:32
In the Ockham NZ Book Awards shortlisted 'This Pākehā Life: An Unsettled Memoir', Alison Jones contests that being Pākehā requires us to live in a state of “permanently lively discomfort with no single resolution...”, a…
NGĀ ORO HOU THE NEW VIBRATIONS (2021) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:05
An exceptional evening performance brings together celebrated writers and taonga pūoro practitioners in a lyrical weaving of language and song. Arihia Latham, Anahera Gildea, Becky Manawatu, essa may ranapiri and Tusiata…
FAMILY DYNAMICS: O'BRIEN, GRIMSHAW, MEWBURN (2021) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:34
Writing an honest and deeply personal memoir takes a certain degree of courage, and the journey can be fraught. In Lil O’Brien’s 'Not That I’d Kiss a Girl', she movingly recounts the fallout from her parents’ accidental…