tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55388779682963654932024-02-19T23:51:23.693+13:00Arts Out Loud SeriesCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences - School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication - Albany Campus - Massey UniversityDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-77359811710026894012015-05-15T08:36:00.000+12:002015-05-15T09:03:57.992+12:00Site-map<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRnOsbVzTTp-p_Bp7ry4w5WpSnfu0dxDS-L8bGVINfEsmEj8PHV-gbZjfGiDgMXdeMCiHGzbDxjCpgbExEbGAUalfOc7X8kl8gta5icNaLY1SiO7mU_sKFuNFPD16ulB02o31AsyifnRXM/s1600/massey2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708450034582953458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRnOsbVzTTp-p_Bp7ry4w5WpSnfu0dxDS-L8bGVINfEsmEj8PHV-gbZjfGiDgMXdeMCiHGzbDxjCpgbExEbGAUalfOc7X8kl8gta5icNaLY1SiO7mU_sKFuNFPD16ulB02o31AsyifnRXM/s400/massey2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 269px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;">Atrium building, Albany Campus</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 78%;">[photograph: Jack Ross]</span></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
Massey University's <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-english-media-studies/school-english-media-studies.cfm">School of English and Media Studies</a> hosts readings and performances at three venues — the Palmerston North City Library, and the Massey campuses in Auckland and Wellington.<br />
<br />
The series is co-sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies; the City Library (Palmerston North); the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (Auckland); and the Office of the Campus Registrar (Wellington).<br />
<br />
This site gives details and links for the Auckland branch of the series, generally sited in the Theatre Lab in the Sir Neil Waters Building on the Albany campus (for further information about the location of each event, please consult the particular page for that reading, then cross-check against <a href="http://contact.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms//About%20Massey/contact-us/maps/AK%20East%20Precinct.pdf">this map</a>).<br />
<br />
For information about readings at the other centres, you can visit <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-english-media-studies/news/writers-read.cfm">this page</a>.<br />
</blockquote>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_2kxfxlhEbfA7zTGILgsFwmyCEOt7ptyHjvs05_e5aTBn7ub0d-irGhyphenhyphenzT7XH987El3QxL2Tk4G4N2n90xzfOCc6Sy3fO2zz1dxiapEgw0wFqw1UVt3ZPvz5gGr3u3ETZf4r1Q2K9ses/s1600/Massey-Sir-Neil-Waters-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_2kxfxlhEbfA7zTGILgsFwmyCEOt7ptyHjvs05_e5aTBn7ub0d-irGhyphenhyphenzT7XH987El3QxL2Tk4G4N2n90xzfOCc6Sy3fO2zz1dxiapEgw0wFqw1UVt3ZPvz5gGr3u3ETZf4r1Q2K9ses/s400/Massey-Sir-Neil-Waters-2.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.plasterboardservices.co.nz/Projects.aspx">Sir Neil Waters Building, Albany Campus</a></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;">2015</span></b></div>
<br />
<ul><br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2015/05/arts-out-loud-series-2015-1.html">Arts Out Loud Series (2015): 1</a>: Matthew Harris</li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;">2014</span></b></div>
<br />
<ul><br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2014-1.html">Writers Read Series (2014): 1</a>: Thom Conroy & Alice Miller</li>
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2014-2.html">Writers Read Series (2014): 2</a>: Poetry NZ launch</li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;">•</span><br />
<br />
<br /><span style="font-size: 130%;">2013</span></b></div>
<br />
<ul><br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-1.html">Writers Read Series (2013): 1</a>: C. K. Stead</li>
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-2.html">Writers Read Series (2013): 2</a>: Sue Orr</li>
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-3.html">Writers Read Series (2013): 3</a>: Robert Sullivan</li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;">•</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">2012</span></b></div>
<br />
<ul><br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-1.html">Writers Read Series (2012): 1</a>: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson</li>
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-2.html">Writers Read Series (2012): 2</a>: John Adams</li>
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-3.html">Writers Read Series (2012): 3</a>: Paula Green</li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;">•</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">2011</span></b></div>
<br />
<ul><br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-1.html">Writers Read Series (2011): 1</a> - Anne Kennedy</li>
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-2.html">Writers Read Series (2011): 2</a> - Ian Wedde</li>
</ul>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE5EXnJM_drgC9b1kmdexBn9FhjxZht2B9fNpNnXgJMCN24m5ASs0GCaB-58N9_xDB0FDSAhroo0aWv48mlkI2VfuwmVMRG0QSR8uTl8Qh7lYxeJgNvbhwbppMFOYcGtceof6gjgNuJ_Q/s1600/DSC04367.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE5EXnJM_drgC9b1kmdexBn9FhjxZht2B9fNpNnXgJMCN24m5ASs0GCaB-58N9_xDB0FDSAhroo0aWv48mlkI2VfuwmVMRG0QSR8uTl8Qh7lYxeJgNvbhwbppMFOYcGtceof6gjgNuJ_Q/s400/DSC04367.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Staff Lounge, Study Centre</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 78%;">[photograph: Bronwyn Lloyd]</span>
</div>Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-70456023500223356662015-05-14T08:52:00.001+12:002022-06-24T07:58:39.978+12:00Arts Out Loud Series (2015): 1<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPg46YzNhsCEtukl-qV1sXBq71hJUosAEZXQUstYNraKFbsWWzJM5yUT8mRIBoBMJRHpV9WDxE5WuTPNK5_42fF98852ei3u11RBRur9Bl2W7Bj4wAxWQzioWxBBEIk-lrPMKrroem-po/s1600/Arts+Out+Loud.Harris+Presentation.Poster.Final+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPg46YzNhsCEtukl-qV1sXBq71hJUosAEZXQUstYNraKFbsWWzJM5yUT8mRIBoBMJRHpV9WDxE5WuTPNK5_42fF98852ei3u11RBRur9Bl2W7Bj4wAxWQzioWxBBEIk-lrPMKrroem-po/s400/Arts+Out+Loud.Harris+Presentation.Poster.Final+copy.jpg" /></a><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />Arts Out Loud Series 2015:<br />From Page to Screen</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Wednesday, May 20th<br /><br />12.30-1.30 pm<br /><br />Theatre Lab<br />Sir Neil Waters Building 2.2<br />Albany Campus<br />Massey University</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />All Welcome!</span></b></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
This is the first this year in our Albany <i>Arts Out Loud</i> series, sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies on Massey's Palmerston North, Wellington, and Albany campuses, and co-hosted here in Auckland by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.<br />
<br />
<b>What is it?</b><br />
<br />
A presentation by scriptwriter <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=445930">Dr Matthew Harris</a>, and the screening of two films, <i>Snooze Time</i> (2014), and <i>43000 Feet</i> (2012). Dr. Harris will be talking about the genesis of the ideas for the films, the writing and revision process of the scripts, and elements of the production that bear on the translation from the page to screen. Dr Harris will also comment on the thematic link between the films: human perceptions of time.<br />
<br />
<b>About the Speaker:</b><br />
<br />
Dr Matthew Harris is a writer of short films and other fictions. His films have travelled the international festival circuit from Tribeca in New York to the Clermont-Ferrand Festival in France, accruing various awards and nominations, and his short fiction and poetry has been published variously in NZ and abroad. He graduated with a PhD in New Zealand fiction at Massey’s Albany campus in 2012, and tutors in the School of English and Media Studies. A sample of his work can be found <a href="http://www.matthewjamesharris.com/">here</a>.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>MC for this event:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<a href="mailto:J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz">Dr Jack Ross</a><br />
English Lecturer<br />
Atrium L2.32<br />
School of English and Media Studies<br />
Pvt Bag 102 904<br />
North Shore Mail Centre<br />
Albany Campus<br />
Phone: 414-0800 x 43338<br />
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=345930">Massey University</a></blockquote>
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b>
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6YKkW6cXx0WnDGroCfxkVGq5-M6vd_DRdOsy-FvwozabHvA4TcZI25MIFEzg71TYFV5DxoKaMVSz9Ftogt8JDU2Zh_4S5YwcW1QjJ9m-m81zgNd0m_Vfed-nScx5h7QA83q1Ekw3xLU/s1600/snooze-film-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6YKkW6cXx0WnDGroCfxkVGq5-M6vd_DRdOsy-FvwozabHvA4TcZI25MIFEzg71TYFV5DxoKaMVSz9Ftogt8JDU2Zh_4S5YwcW1QjJ9m-m81zgNd0m_Vfed-nScx5h7QA83q1Ekw3xLU/s400/snooze-film-01.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">A storyboard from Dr Matthew Harris' short film Snooze Time</span></div><br />
<br />
<b>Reviews & Comments:</b><br />
<ol><br />
<li>Jennifer Little, "<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=F77717BD-067F-81FB-442F-A5521275E3E1">Script writer shares art of page-to-screen</a>." <i>Massey News</i> (May 18, 2015):<br /><blockquote>
<br />
Aspiring film scriptwriters will have a chance to hear how to get an idea off the page and onto the screen at a special seminar with scriptwriter Dr Matthew Harris.<br />
<br />
Dr Harris, a tutor in the School of English and Media Studies at the Auckland campus, is presenting two of his short films in the first of the <i>Arts Out Loud</i> series on creativity this Wednesday (May 20).<br />
<br />
Film buffs will be treated to screenings of his short films <i>Snooze Time</i> (2014), and <i>43,000 Feet</i> (2012), which premiered at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival in 2012. It was selected from more than 2,800 submissions and competed with another 58 films from 25 countries.<br />
<br />
Dr Harris will talk about the genesis of the ideas for the films, the writing and revision process of the scripts, and elements of the production that bear on the translation from the page to screen. He will also comment on the thematic link between the films: human perceptions of time.<br />
<br />
“I’ll be talking about where my ideas come from and how I got into writing. And also about the research that’s part of the writing process,” he says.<br />
<br />
He has “always been fascinated by time and how people experience time.”<br />
<br />
Dr Harris’ films have travelled the international festival circuit from Tribeca in New York to the Clermont-Ferrand Festival in France, accruing various awards and nominations. His short fiction and poetry has been published variously in New Zealand and abroad.<br />
<br />
His nine-minute film <i>43,000</i> Feet is a mix of live action and animation with an interior monologue voiced by Peter Bryant to convey the thoughts of statistician John Wilkins as he falls to Earth. He calculates he has exactly three minutes and 48 seconds before impact, formulating a plan for hitting the ground and rehearsing what he will say to media on the off chance he survives.<br />
<br />
“It's about the different kinds of time we experience, from the agonisingly slow (morning-after-time, microwave-time) to the truly chaotic – such as the contradictory-time of old age, when the days seem to crawl by but Christmas comes around faster each year.”<br />
<br />
His latest short film <i>Madam Black</i>, about a glamour photographer who runs over a child’s pet and is forced to fabricate a story about its disappearance, has been selected for the Dances with Films festival (May 28-June 7) in Hollywood. <i>Madam Black</i> begins its festival run on Saturday, 30 May at the Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, competing for 'Best Short' in the Dances With Films festival.<br />
<br />
He is currently working on a feature-length fictionalised documentary about the curious history of the Christmas carol "O Holy Night," which was allegedly written by a professed atheist.<br />
<br />
Dr Harris graduated with a PhD in New Zealand fiction at Massey’s Auckland campus in 2012. Find out more about his work <a href="http://www.matthewjamesharris.com/">here</a>, and a blog on his films <a href="http://masseyblogs.ac.nz/expressivearts/2014/10/28/new-short-snooze-time-by-matt-harris-is-going-off/">here</a>.<br />
<br />
<i>Arts Out Loud</i> is co-ordinated by Dr Rand Hazou and Dr Jack Ross from the School of English and Media Studies, which is introducing a new major in Creative Writing in the Bachelor of Arts next year.<br />
<br />
<b>Event details:</b><br />
<br />
‘From page to screen’ with Dr Matthew Harris: May 20, 12.30-1.30: Theatre Lab, Sir Neil Waters Building.</blockquote>
</li>
<br />
</ol>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Previously on this campus:</b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2014-2.html">Poetry NZ launch</a></span><br />
[31/10 & 1/12/14]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2014-1.html">Thom Conroy & Alice Miller</a></span><br />
[3/10/14]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-3.html">Robert Sullivan</a></span><br />
[7/8/13]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-2.html">Sue Orr</a></span><br />
[1/5/13]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-1.html">C. K. Stead</a></span><br />
[27/3/13]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-3.html">Paula Green</a></span><br />
[13/9/12]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-2.html">John Adams</a></span><br />
[9/8/12]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-1.html">Jeffrey Masson</a></span><br />
[2/5/12]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-2.html">Ian Wedde</a></span><br />
[15/9/11]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-1.html">Anne Kennedy</a></span><br />
[11/5/11]</b></div>Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-13100228903526430672013-02-27T12:56:00.000+13:002015-05-20T09:21:21.440+12:00Writers Read Series (2014): 2<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEKSIp6H8_3oPDlvqlMJYBqTy4plq0DpHGpsx9AOfAfuFGbiAHuspm_juqPrXoOT6dkxyybiCkpXX-78AbeWKBRLIQeXMtacy7ODlS-p72BsDyO8iXN5xwacQBJrqoSvjlC8NDlQjvgKM/s1600/pnz+yearbook+1i.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEKSIp6H8_3oPDlvqlMJYBqTy4plq0DpHGpsx9AOfAfuFGbiAHuspm_juqPrXoOT6dkxyybiCkpXX-78AbeWKBRLIQeXMtacy7ODlS-p72BsDyO8iXN5xwacQBJrqoSvjlC8NDlQjvgKM/s400/pnz+yearbook+1i.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Cover image: Renee Bevan / Cover photograph: Caryline Boreham<br />
/ cover design: Ellen Portch & Brett Cross</span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />Writers Read Series 2014:<br />Launch of <i>Poetry NZ Yearbook</i> 1</span></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihGgGTt3S0QzEPvExRO_83aovo4QuqGePqfBLW_VbqA4C4H-yw0nRxEb7_QZhWSjtsIYVxDQVbDRikN0HiJha_JsxXrorfiHdDp1Nit7tFjzyxYwjgQOj2mJ0aFTYjPpSLes19PQZ2OnU/s1600/Lisa+Samuels+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihGgGTt3S0QzEPvExRO_83aovo4QuqGePqfBLW_VbqA4C4H-yw0nRxEb7_QZhWSjtsIYVxDQVbDRikN0HiJha_JsxXrorfiHdDp1Nit7tFjzyxYwjgQOj2mJ0aFTYjPpSLes19PQZ2OnU/s400/Lisa+Samuels+1.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Lisa Samuels</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 78%;">[photograph: Bronwyn Lloyd]</span><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Friday, October 31st<br /><br />6.00-8.00 pm<br /><br />Drama Lab<br />Sir Neil Waters Building<br />Albany Campus<br />Massey University</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />All Welcome!</span></b></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
This is the second this year in our Albany <i>Writers Read</i> series, sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies on Massey's Palmerston North, Wellington, and Albany campuses, and co-hosted here in Auckland by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.<br />
<br />
Our readers and speakers will include <a href="http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/lsam015">Lisa Samuels</a>, the featured poet in this issue, <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=345930">Jack Ross</a>, the new Managing Editor of <i>Poetry NZ</i>, and a number of the other poets included. The magazine will be launched by A/Prof <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=703230">Grant Duncan</a>, of Massey University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences.<br />
<br />
The line-up of invited readers will include the following:<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.iainbritton.co.nz/">Iain Britton</a><br />
<a href="http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/">Scott Hamilton</a><br />
<a href="http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/leggott/">Michele Leggott</a><br />
<a href="http://nzpoetsonline.homestead.com/em16.html">Elizabeth Morton</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/patersona.html">Alistair Paterson</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/vonsturmerrichard.html">Richard von Sturmer</a><br />
<a href="http://kirstenwarnerauthor.wordpress.com/">Kirsten Warner</a></div><br />
<br />
Light refreshments will be provided.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcEf_pojgDm9zWE2mqrrG6MHcLpOrF8C6E9ey2eh28e-K5wLsRpSMmKHEwrlwqudJp2-cFhLZl-lcHSpw36P-slWz40jCZZEn0_dfWbqVLe4jnXmIhman7wpcJbP9dWx-HPDK_L-cfTWw/s1600/pnz+yearbook+1ii.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcEf_pojgDm9zWE2mqrrG6MHcLpOrF8C6E9ey2eh28e-K5wLsRpSMmKHEwrlwqudJp2-cFhLZl-lcHSpw36P-slWz40jCZZEn0_dfWbqVLe4jnXmIhman7wpcJbP9dWx-HPDK_L-cfTWw/s400/pnz+yearbook+1ii.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b>
<br />
<br />
<b>Pictures from the launch:</b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2OoGwWkBJHZvol_p7lfUBcHMGNhEN3idiTKKMJr0xHpoShxqBnT4s50Z26RQFCCCj_FUylvc0DZnM79Di9TzJpO1z6AxjX2SKBpHQ_BRqkf2rzNst5-KNYZj-iodHKhb6QWbNP76xY74/s1600/Poetry_NZ_launch_6654.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2OoGwWkBJHZvol_p7lfUBcHMGNhEN3idiTKKMJr0xHpoShxqBnT4s50Z26RQFCCCj_FUylvc0DZnM79Di9TzJpO1z6AxjX2SKBpHQ_BRqkf2rzNst5-KNYZj-iodHKhb6QWbNP76xY74/s400/Poetry_NZ_launch_6654.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Mixing & Mingling in the foyer</span><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx-Q3QEdSaEEn1WSgUsVkxHQWeAlsLGfKtzgFssH3hS0-sCTFXAlQyTCvH5hRapsyzclEJRTbRNSCI7-daXEZ6dfBRl_CbEvctIYcZ2EE4TdcfjC57BZRXPXFQCwNCt7CWvz3hF3egsQU/s1600/Poetry_NZ_launch_6658.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx-Q3QEdSaEEn1WSgUsVkxHQWeAlsLGfKtzgFssH3hS0-sCTFXAlQyTCvH5hRapsyzclEJRTbRNSCI7-daXEZ6dfBRl_CbEvctIYcZ2EE4TdcfjC57BZRXPXFQCwNCt7CWvz3hF3egsQU/s400/Poetry_NZ_launch_6658.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Dagmara Rudolph & Jack Ross</span><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPL6KTHhS2gHyv2XlxSma7O9OdsuQgzh4bBNbH3ERdwgbD-5JvkDcJcQVZVkHGgTbrcAcHHF2GHkLMMfxCl6jPYb9NZV0lui9zboyxsvaXanDUZ0dDU2wc-e53BVtX78lFc-CXQ9zgDTA/s1600/Poetry_NZ_launch_6663.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPL6KTHhS2gHyv2XlxSma7O9OdsuQgzh4bBNbH3ERdwgbD-5JvkDcJcQVZVkHGgTbrcAcHHF2GHkLMMfxCl6jPYb9NZV0lui9zboyxsvaXanDUZ0dDU2wc-e53BVtX78lFc-CXQ9zgDTA/s400/Poetry_NZ_launch_6663.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">l-to-r: Alistair Paterson, Elizabeth Morton, Richard von Sturmer, Iain Britton, Michele Leggott<br />
Lisa Samuels, Olive the guide-dog, Jack Ross, Dagmara Rudolph & Kirsten Warner</span><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheLrkmgVkCYOkapXwiVw9ZPZq55wjiCsUhGMpdYjzSfN_Jsjpd-Wgr2yQbdZKeDJJbABHYamDNZ2lTLWWD5kZl9xzMfEei1mYzcSVOTMH2VFmKQWmX7YBF0SH-CtOHUCWKJOcMQyk1hKc/s1600/Poetry_NZ_launch_6665.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheLrkmgVkCYOkapXwiVw9ZPZq55wjiCsUhGMpdYjzSfN_Jsjpd-Wgr2yQbdZKeDJJbABHYamDNZ2lTLWWD5kZl9xzMfEei1mYzcSVOTMH2VFmKQWmX7YBF0SH-CtOHUCWKJOcMQyk1hKc/s400/Poetry_NZ_launch_6665.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Inside the Theatre Lab</span><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAZ6rwXc71S7JTrz-W0nvinAmeNGI-QGazYnYr2JFZyhT56crL99SSpix1WVXJYBDVwO8AZbW72wN9x0Ka6UK_g_nUfWgRHkVS9bG2WwrrsfbEI1i3FlZWMMqYdpcTXTuYx5P1CdR1d0E/s1600/Poetry_NZ_launch_6674.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAZ6rwXc71S7JTrz-W0nvinAmeNGI-QGazYnYr2JFZyhT56crL99SSpix1WVXJYBDVwO8AZbW72wN9x0Ka6UK_g_nUfWgRHkVS9bG2WwrrsfbEI1i3FlZWMMqYdpcTXTuYx5P1CdR1d0E/s400/Poetry_NZ_launch_6674.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Grant Duncan launches the issue</span><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hwvEFJDd7kFjWP66UhuMFZX4hGCO1Ngoo5mFXocYkHXZm_ooCVKFHmVxFH4y5ycxXDk7uQwJLdWrCvU3OxYpUvtNfwbNGS-qmwqvS_qZrc1c77Yo1pnM9HegoPtOHphqytXOlCG1MOQ/s1600/Poetry_NZ_launch_6683.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hwvEFJDd7kFjWP66UhuMFZX4hGCO1Ngoo5mFXocYkHXZm_ooCVKFHmVxFH4y5ycxXDk7uQwJLdWrCvU3OxYpUvtNfwbNGS-qmwqvS_qZrc1c77Yo1pnM9HegoPtOHphqytXOlCG1MOQ/s400/Poetry_NZ_launch_6683.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">The Prince of Darkness introduces the poets</span>
</div><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b>
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL8SKoUBpSLGy2EQ6hAQXepI_2GCFFEkxVO5rIdpp5-Bp3UCCPTMTEhmn_l8JixUmInd1dJwEVN7I9IQF28jm2SaQXiNSzoB91OouwqU98iqC3vVIb_nCaCHMDPp9LSlrKdk3ajrTFBMc/s1600/Renee+Bevan,+Stream+of+thoughts.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL8SKoUBpSLGy2EQ6hAQXepI_2GCFFEkxVO5rIdpp5-Bp3UCCPTMTEhmn_l8JixUmInd1dJwEVN7I9IQF28jm2SaQXiNSzoB91OouwqU98iqC3vVIb_nCaCHMDPp9LSlrKdk3ajrTFBMc/s400/Renee+Bevan,+Stream+of+thoughts.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Renee Bevan: "Stream of thoughts, a whole year’s work" (2012)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 78%;">[photograph: Caryline Boreham]</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 180%;"><b>Wellington Launch:</b></span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Monday, December 1st<br /><br />6.00-7.30 pm<br /><br />Meow Cafe<br />9 Edward St<br />Te Aro<br />Wellington 6011</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />All Welcome!</span></b></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
As part of the Australasian Association of Writing Programmes [AAWP] 19th annual conference, this year hosted by Massey University, there will be a second launch for <i>Poetry NZ</i> in Wellington later this year.<br />
<br />
Once again, light refreshments will be provided, together with readings from a number of invited guests.
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<b>Contact Person for these events:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<a href="mailto:J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz">Dr Jack Ross</a><br />
English Lecturer<br />
Atrium L2.32<br />
School of English and Media Studies<br />
Pvt Bag 102 904<br />
North Shore Mail Centre<br />
Albany Campus<br />
Phone: 414-0800 x 43338<br />
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=345930">Massey University</a></blockquote>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b>
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56PmjQx6ijP8sRQQY-e6JVh9nz11n_VwboEXjkLwzng4qhvJ3boiSgKVWiGYQ5E3S1IjGyn4GLY5QMCSU9AssS9NjVXQGARHwE4k7H4SoT_sS4WIH71EvawLqKxAJ-RoP_nKOpvqfxR4/s1600/PNZ+Yearbook+1.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56PmjQx6ijP8sRQQY-e6JVh9nz11n_VwboEXjkLwzng4qhvJ3boiSgKVWiGYQ5E3S1IjGyn4GLY5QMCSU9AssS9NjVXQGARHwE4k7H4SoT_sS4WIH71EvawLqKxAJ-RoP_nKOpvqfxR4/s400/PNZ+Yearbook+1.png" /></a></div><br />
<br />
<b>Reviews & Comments:</b><br />
<ol><br />
<li>Jennifer Little, "<a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Overview/Introduction/Home.htm">Massey editor for new-look <i>Poetry NZ</i></a>." <i>Booknotes Unbound</i> (May 29, 2014):<br /><blockquote>
<br />
Watching an Al Jazeera television item about a young Arab poet spraypainting words of protest on a wall somewhere on the West Bank struck a chord with Massey University English senior lecturer Dr Jack Ross.<br />
<br />
In his new role as managing editor of the country’s longest-running poetry journal, <i>Poetry New Zealand</i>, he hopes to infuse something of the spirit and energy of that far-flung poet in future issues of his new literary baby.<br />
<br />
In the spirit of his predecessors at the helm of the periodical, he intends to keep it youth-oriented, politically engaged, experimental, and culturally diverse – all necessary attributes for an international journal of poetry and poetics.</blockquote>
</li>
<br />
<li>Jennifer Little, "<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=14BBEF94-077A-DCB7-5414-8F110CD5D0E4#.VESBPWSFdrE.facebook">‘Machinery for imagining’ in <i>Poetry NZ</i></a>." <i>Massey News</i> (October 17, 2014):<br /><blockquote>
<br />
An adolescent's poem on bullying, and experimental works by an American poetics professor echo the diverse voices in the first edition of the country’s longest-running poetry journal to be published by Massey University.<br />
<br />
The 66th issue since the journal originated in 1951, its new incarnation under managing editor Dr Jack Ross will be launched at the Albany campus on October 31.<br />
<br />
The “bumper” selection of 117 poems by 93 poets (including 11 by feature poet Lisa Samuels) was siphoned from well over a thousand submissions sent in via post and email. Two essays, a review and brief notices of 25 new poetry books and magazines are also included.<br />
<br />
Ross – a poet, editor and critic who teaches fiction, poetry, and travel writing in the School of English and Media Studies – replaces distinguished poet, anthologist, fiction-writer, critic and retiring editor Alistair Paterson, who held the role of Poetry New Zealand’s editor for 21 years.<br />
<br />
He suspects his choice of “extravagantly experimental” Lisa Samuels as the featured poet could be controversial. That the University of Auckland-based writer’s work is considered “difficult”, even by some connoisseurs of poetry, should not be an impediment to publication, he says. “As if being easy were some kind of duty for writers, to be ignored at their peril!” he comments in his introduction.</blockquote>
</li>
<br />
<li> Rachel O'Neill. "Interview with Jack Ross, new editor of <i>Poetry NZ</i>." <a href="http://booknotes-unbound.org.nz/interview-jack-ross-new-editor-poetry-nz/"><i>Booknotes Unbound</i></a> (23/10/14):<br /><blockquote>
<i>Poetry NZ</i> is an international print journal of poetry, established in 1951 by Louis Johnson, and edited between 1993 and 2014 by Alistair Paterson. The magazine is now housed by Massey University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences and is edited by Jack Ross. We asked Ross a few questions about editing <i>Poetry NZ</i>, and about local poetry and the brand new issue (full launch details below).
<br />
<br />
<blockquote>
<b>1. If the poet is ‘the priest of the invisible’ as Wallace Stevens put it, the editor is…?</b><br />
<br />
Interesting question. I suppose the obvious answer is ‘the office manager’ (though it’s tempting to say the Pope) – but I have to admit that I tend to prefer rather more subversive models of the poet.<br />
<br />
If, like Stevens, one agrees that the function of poets is to give “to airy nothing / a local habitation and a name,” then I myself like to imagine it as a kind of espionage: “God’s spies,” as Shakespeare says in <i>King Lear</i>.<br />
<br />
Continuing with that analogy, I guess I like to fantasise about being the editor-as-M (from the Bond films), a kind of shadowy spy-master who assembles the bits and pieces coming across the desk to create a composite mosaic picture of where the principal dangers lie – all those dangers to humanity (eco-catastrophe, political fanaticism and intolerance, the erosion of empathy), which I’m convinced that it’s poets’ job to speak out about. “With your unconstraining voice / Still persuade us to rejoice,” as Auden put it in his great elegy for W. B. Yeats.<br />
<br />
<b>2. <i>Poetry NZ</i> was established in 1951. What attracted you to the role of editor of <i>Poetry NZ</i> in particular?</b><br />
<br />
Over the years I’ve received a good deal of help and support personally from Alistair Paterson, my immediate predecessor in the role, and I’ve also seen just how much time and passion he gave to <i>Poetry NZ</i> and all its subscribers and contributors. I didn’t see any way in which I could emulate that degree of commitment while still retaining any time for my own writing (not to mention the demands of my job), so I did turn it down when he initially spoke to me about it.<br />
<br />
When he and John Denny, the magazine’s publisher, approached me again late last year, though, it was with the suggestion that Massey University be asked to take over the journal – rather as Otago University has <i>Landfall</i> – and that was quite a different proposition. I began to see ways in which it might become a collective effort, rather than one person’s life’s work.<br />
<br />
I think if the magazine is to continue, it has to draw in as many people as possible: guest editors, reviewers, essayists, artists, designers, event-planners and so on. A university gives you good access to such people. Having said that, though, I should emphasise that this is, and will remain, a magazine which reaches out beyond the confines of the institution – or, for that matter, the country. <i>Poetry NZ</i> exists as much to bring our poetry to the world as it does to mirror solely what’s going on in New Zealand.<br />
<br />
<b>3. A poet is usually profiled in each issue of <i>Poetry NZ</i>. Can you tell us a little about the featured poet for this issue?</b><br />
<br />
Yes, I’d love to. The featured poet for this issue is Lisa Samuels, who teaches poetry and poetics at Auckland University. The reason I chose Lisa is because she’s an extremist: her poetry is of an extravagantly experimental type, which still tends to polarize people in this country. Also because she’s not a New Zealander, although she has chosen to settle here (and has written a very amusing meditation on the experience in her long book-length poem <i>Tomorrowland</i> – now also available as a CD).<br />
<br />
This doesn’t mean that I’ll be reluctant to feature local poets in the future. Like Alistair Paterson, though, I think it’s important that we don’t get too protectively nationalistic in our approach to poetry here. Lisa, for me, ticked all the boxes – and I think that you’ll find the poems I’ve selected from her latest collection a challenging mixture of melopoeia and subversion: though perhaps it’s necessary to hear her perform them to get the full effect.<br />
<br />
<b>4. You mentioned that you are keen to showcase ‘emerging – and inevitably challenging – poetic trends, voices and styles.’ Are there interesting threads that link emerging work at the moment, or is the work interesting because it’s diverse?</b><br />
<br />
A bit of both, I guess. I’m no enemy to political engagement in poetry, though I think it has to go beyond mere slogans, to be self-questioning, if it’s to retain any poetic interest. I’m also very interested in the growth of the new pastoral, together with its theoretical branch of eco-poetics, and I see a lot of passionately committed new work coming up in this field. Finally, I have a strong interest in translation and multicultural approaches to poetry. All three of these trends are represented in the issue, but I’d like to be able to include more work under each of these headings in the future.<br />
<br />
<b>5. Can you describe some of the poetry that will appear in this issue?</b><br />
<br />
My favourite line so far in from everything I’ve read for the issue (well over a thousand poems, from an estimated 2-300 poets who’ve submitted) has got to be: “Holy s***! A talking cat!” That’s from a poem called ‘OCD and Conversations with Cat,’ by a young Chinese poet from Christchurch.<br />
<br />
My favourite poem is probably ‘Life in Unfair,’ by an eleven-year-old girl who sent us a letter which assured us that her parents’ assent had been obtained before the poem was submitted. The poem is about bullying – and it speaks from the heart. I have to say that the moment I saw it I was determined to put it in (I did have a tangential vision of her whipping out a massive copy of Poetry NZ next time she runs into one of the ‘popular girls’ who hound her so unmercifully, and casually flicking it open to her name in the contents page. I suppose that they probably wouldn’t be all that impressed. I can’t think of a better way of protesting the unfairness of life, though, than by writing a poem about it and getting it printed in one of our most widely read literary journals …)<br />
<br />
Besides that, there are some lovely translations from the Chinese, which I’ve been able to present in dual-text; some Russian poems translated by Anne Stevenson in collaboration with their author, Eugene Dubnov; a poem written simultaneously in French, English and Portuguese by the Angolan writer Landa wo; poems from Australia, Europe, Ireland, North America, and a variety of other places as well as virtually every corner of New Zealand. I hope I’ve provided enough surprises to keep everyone guessing!<br />
<br />
<b>6. What are your favourite reading conditions?</b><br />
<br />
I’m sorry to say that I can only read comfortably whilst lying on my bed like a Roman emperor, with a book or bundle of papers balanced on my stomach. I’d like to be able to say that I can also, at a pinch, read in an armchair, or a café, or at my desk, but it would be a lie. I’ve been thinking of experimenting with lying and reading in a hammock over summer, but I’m a bit doubtful about the strength of the branches in our backyard which would have to hold it up.<br />
<br />
<b>7. What’s on your bedside table?</b><br />
<br />
A travel book by Lawrence Durrell; an old children’s book by Arthur Ransome; a collection of SF short stories by Arthur C. Clarke; a collection of stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne (<i>The Snow Image</i>); a collection of fascinating tales from archaeology called <i>The World’s Last Mysteries</i>; and an MA thesis which I’m reading for examination. Until very recently there were a couple of dozen slim volumes of verse which I was reading for the reviews section at the back of <i>Poetry NZ</i>, but I’m giving myself a bit of a holiday from poetry at the moment. I like to jump from book to book, depending what mood I’m in: some I read in the evening, some in the morning before getting up.
</blockquote><br />
<br />
Jack Ross is a poet, fiction writer and editor. He has published books of poetry and short fiction and has edited numerous collections of writing and a variety of journals. Ross has worked as a teacher of New Zealand literature and creative writing, and he is co-editor of a series of books dedicated to capturing New Zealand poets in performance. You can find out more about Jack Ross in his <a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/rossjack.html">Book Council Writers file</a>.
</blockquote></li>
<br />
</ol>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii940InKiCfhuAUdkR8WtH-Ts034EK4Gz6xJnwMPGzqYNIHbuCylY-FXuFL0LBbiz8wOxhFW7adDdQUwpmMc9ruRdUPsfXHzmAbDxiU4HjmqBSpw-7L-Uqtl2-sFRLeZ0-b5SWaEdbx84/s1600/Booknotes-Unbound-logo-atl-Sep2014.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii940InKiCfhuAUdkR8WtH-Ts034EK4Gz6xJnwMPGzqYNIHbuCylY-FXuFL0LBbiz8wOxhFW7adDdQUwpmMc9ruRdUPsfXHzmAbDxiU4HjmqBSpw-7L-Uqtl2-sFRLeZ0-b5SWaEdbx84/s400/Booknotes-Unbound-logo-atl-Sep2014.jpg" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Previously in this series:</b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2014-1.html">Thom Conroy & Alice Miller</a></span><br />
[3/10/14]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-3.html">Robert Sullivan</a></span><br />
[7/8/13]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-2.html">Sue Orr</a></span><br />
[1/5/13]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-1.html">C. K. Stead</a></span><br />
[27/3/13]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-3.html">Paula Green</a></span><br />
[13/9/12]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-2.html">John Adams</a></span><br />
[9/8/12]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-1.html">Jeffrey Masson</a></span><br />
[2/5/12]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-2.html">Ian Wedde</a></span><br />
[15/9/11]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-1.html">Anne Kennedy</a></span><br />
[11/5/11]</b></div>Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-79219701075851815642013-02-26T12:01:00.000+13:002015-05-15T08:37:09.925+12:00Writers Read Series (2014): 1<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigzJ-r6SQi3S5yfbQzlOin8MSoCVFxOw7VLIxFJmpp45KfktB3vB4xln9hejI9hYznb6XnJvm-ngMqS8oIBkMhPJVFf4NlxQrI8li0kiGFIF3bLLcDTZiul1TLCv27rolSGNAb8c-hrA8/s1600/Reading+3+Oct_Thom+Conroy+and+Alice+Miller.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigzJ-r6SQi3S5yfbQzlOin8MSoCVFxOw7VLIxFJmpp45KfktB3vB4xln9hejI9hYznb6XnJvm-ngMqS8oIBkMhPJVFf4NlxQrI8li0kiGFIF3bLLcDTZiul1TLCv27rolSGNAb8c-hrA8/s400/Reading+3+Oct_Thom+Conroy+and+Alice+Miller.png" /></a><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />Writers Read Series 2014:<br />Reading, Reception and Book Signing -</span><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhscf9S1I7Eb3EkGoBtJXSy7JDjB9lZcWzc0ujA53mqBRG6zC14-ZTcG3jNM9vP_9i4IPtulTFPcQuWByt54oSpAhCLF7cINvamc3vntzISQIXQ4rgZyTxKniVE1ZqIjIZXsY7wYksYrB8/s1600/Conroy-Thom_2014-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhscf9S1I7Eb3EkGoBtJXSy7JDjB9lZcWzc0ujA53mqBRG6zC14-ZTcG3jNM9vP_9i4IPtulTFPcQuWByt54oSpAhCLF7cINvamc3vntzISQIXQ4rgZyTxKniVE1ZqIjIZXsY7wYksYrB8/s400/Conroy-Thom_2014-02.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=CEB3F28F-D315-A4B6-FCD0-8CC51CDE2047">Dr Thom Conroy</a></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><a href="http://www.randomhouse.co.nz/authors/thom-conroy.aspx">Thom Conroy's</a></span></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigbXc24Ds2sfAUs1GAZslH9HABBRXFBNuPVGWoESD3-HYo6NGdp63ZkebqiXE-qz-GJzZpaAFdpozqf3OJhdNitnUoFJGNpiiTmE-GyatW0wbk53zjohP5_-oEcb0zWSD1Zt6nS4rLhkk/s1600/ThNaturalist.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigbXc24Ds2sfAUs1GAZslH9HABBRXFBNuPVGWoESD3-HYo6NGdp63ZkebqiXE-qz-GJzZpaAFdpozqf3OJhdNitnUoFJGNpiiTmE-GyatW0wbk53zjohP5_-oEcb0zWSD1Zt6nS4rLhkk/s400/ThNaturalist.JPG" /></a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3NH5YZiVjbWZ7m22QUsUKUZMekHCGwuTikVCGDFp3nM4vsesXnGK8CHGQ4y_j6K6H3BMahZf2Al_P1o8dZZULFDSMiex5hTSVhIh8MTwdXAz4_-HZ_lXL0l1LhL58v0tP5A_SVcBEMLY/s1600/img_8526.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3NH5YZiVjbWZ7m22QUsUKUZMekHCGwuTikVCGDFp3nM4vsesXnGK8CHGQ4y_j6K6H3BMahZf2Al_P1o8dZZULFDSMiex5hTSVhIh8MTwdXAz4_-HZ_lXL0l1LhL58v0tP5A_SVcBEMLY/s400/img_8526.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://nzpoetryshelf.com/2014/04/07/alice-millers-debut-poetry-collection-liberates-a-way-of-reading-that-defies-limits/">Alice Miller</a></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><b><a href="http://www.randomhouse.co.nz/authors/thom-conroy.aspx">Alice Miller's</a></span></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8sZKrGVRyLDvN1FDr6p0xW9ZKoWzVO4v5f9NrYlHrQdpsla5BDxvCEH2737n6dP85Lkpxcvs3FuLCnjzwwbPOL76FhJaYEeA2JICJ7QqhwGk5__U2_-KDGWf10eTSWks9Tau9UVLn_Iw/s1600/cp-the-limits.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8sZKrGVRyLDvN1FDr6p0xW9ZKoWzVO4v5f9NrYlHrQdpsla5BDxvCEH2737n6dP85Lkpxcvs3FuLCnjzwwbPOL76FhJaYEeA2JICJ7QqhwGk5__U2_-KDGWf10eTSWks9Tau9UVLn_Iw/s400/cp-the-limits.jpg" /></a><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Friday, October 3rd<br /><br />12 noon-1.30 pm<br /><br />Staff Lounge<br />Atrium Building AT3.50<br />Albany Campus<br />Massey University</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />All Welcome!</span></b></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
This is the first this year in our Albany <i>Writers Read</i> series, sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies on Massey's Palmerston North, Wellington, and Albany campuses, and co-hosted here in Auckland by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.<br />
<br />
Our two speakers, <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=552930">Thom Conroy</a>, Head of the Expressive Arts section of Massey's School of English and Media Studies, and <a href="http://www.press.auckland.ac.nz/en/browse-books/all-books/books-2014/The-Limits.html">Alice Miller</a>, 2014 Artist-in-Residence on Massey University's Manawatu Campus, both have recently published books to celebrate. Thom's novel <i>The Naturalist</i>, an account of pioneering German Natural Scientist Ernst Dieffenbach's 1839 vist to New Zealand, has been topping the local bestseller lists for a few weeks now. Alice's debut collection <i>The Limits</i>, published simultaneously in the UK by Shearsman Books, has been attracting favourable comment from some of our most discerning poetry judges (on Paula Green's <a href="http://nzpoetryshelf.com/2014/04/07/alice-millers-debut-poetry-collection-liberates-a-way-of-reading-that-defies-limits/">NZ Poetry Shelf</a> blog, for instance).<br />
<br />
Both authors will read from and discuss their work, followed by a book-signing.<br />
<br />
Light refreshments will be provided.<br />
<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Contact Person for this event:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<a href="mailto:J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz">Dr Jack Ross</a><br />
English Lecturer<br />
Atrium L2.32<br />
School of English and Media Studies<br />
Pvt Bag 102 904<br />
North Shore Mail Centre<br />
Albany Campus<br />
Phone: 414-0800 x 43338<br />
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=345930">Massey University</a></blockquote>
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Previously in this series:</b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-3.html">Robert Sullivan</a></span><br />
[7/8/13]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-2.html">Sue Orr</a></span><br />
[1/5/13]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-1.html">C. K. Stead</a></span><br />
[27/3/13]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-3.html">Paula Green</a></span><br />
[13/9/12]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-2.html">John Adams</a></span><br />
[9/8/12]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-1.html">Jeffrey Masson</a></span><br />
[2/5/12]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-2.html">Ian Wedde</a></span><br />
[15/9/11]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-1.html">Anne Kennedy</a></span><br />
[11/5/11]</b></div>Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-63089213661043579932013-02-25T08:42:00.000+13:002015-05-15T12:28:54.513+12:00Writers Read Series (2013): 3<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdFAvv4rj2FhBWOjpHQGsQrefmkH8LlAQe5Uxz2pkyrzMtP1kd2HsrVDwtasgodhYOmZ1R5bpo19FqROu-dapqVrCDvdNEricGxFlwhaxEc_GicLwMlnk_NZ_qaUEykcZ6ucxzPIk67E/s1600/Robert.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdFAvv4rj2FhBWOjpHQGsQrefmkH8LlAQe5Uxz2pkyrzMtP1kd2HsrVDwtasgodhYOmZ1R5bpo19FqROu-dapqVrCDvdNEricGxFlwhaxEc_GicLwMlnk_NZ_qaUEykcZ6ucxzPIk67E/s320/Robert.JPG" /></a><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Writers Read Series 2013:<br />Lunchtime Reading and Discussion -</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Sullivan,%20Robert">Robert Sullivan</a></span></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGcP9vrJ55CC2HGsHsnksfMO3FsEq2Vh1Ju7QP8TuaWwJ_3XhTwc_Sdd0IwWpUFDcm_sevZuUf5wCxyE9NVCEC7pq5XAgoAgVqlUW445JlamZWFoo_zfuLMWwDJpopREpikXtUFYFiS08/s1600/Robert+Sullivan+small.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGcP9vrJ55CC2HGsHsnksfMO3FsEq2Vh1Ju7QP8TuaWwJ_3XhTwc_Sdd0IwWpUFDcm_sevZuUf5wCxyE9NVCEC7pq5XAgoAgVqlUW445JlamZWFoo_zfuLMWwDJpopREpikXtUFYFiS08/s320/Robert+Sullivan+small.jpg" /></a>
<br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[Photograph: Thos King (2005)]</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Wednesday, August 7th<br /><br />12 noon-1.00 pm<br /><br />Staff Lounge<br />Study Centre<br />Albany Campus<br />Massey University</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />All Welcome!</span></b></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
This is the third this year in our Albany <i>Writers Read</i> series, sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies on Massey's Palmerston North, Wellington, and Albany campuses, and co-hosted here in Auckland by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.<br />
<br />
Our speaker, Robert Sullivan, Nga Puhi, is head of the Creative Writing School at Manukau Institute of Technology, and one of New Zealand's most vibrant and accomplished writers. He has published children's books and graphic novels, as well as seven collections of poems - most recently <i>Shout Ha! to the Sky</i> (UK: Salt Publishing, 2010). He also co-edited, with Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri, the award-winning anthologies <i>Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English</i> (2003) and <i>Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English – Whetu Moana II</i> (2010).<br />
<br />
Robert will read from and discuss his recent creative work, followed by a brief question and answer session.</blockquote><br />
<br />
<b>More about Robert Sullivan:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJXdvwpxfp5Mi0w26hFwIs0s5X-hCUXX_fphaSzAQtdFWMaPpUe4BsfDLsr4b-yvXiHumv6nWwU-DYzJ-rrEPibXRwhUmXWq488jppsBOH7uiaiDR4jPO7ZHosy6ZTSamXSGKDB2ksSsI/s1600/sull5.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJXdvwpxfp5Mi0w26hFwIs0s5X-hCUXX_fphaSzAQtdFWMaPpUe4BsfDLsr4b-yvXiHumv6nWwU-DYzJ-rrEPibXRwhUmXWq488jppsBOH7uiaiDR4jPO7ZHosy6ZTSamXSGKDB2ksSsI/s320/sull5.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[<i>Piki Ake! Poems 1990-1992</i> (1993)]</span></div><br />
<br />
Robert Sullivan is a member of the Maori tribe Nga Puhi of Northland in New Zealand and also of Galway Irish descent. He is head of the Creative Writing School at Manukau Institute of Technology, having recently returned from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, where he was an associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEDlSIYgyyYn6oCmHa-iDDjO0mMC-OQxPMf6Bpf4fgpgIXvJ7ZveHsHWQi6A1FYXKtrbZ_mj3gUsxIwPcF53uzm-FIzd8bsDvOO7yY3pVTy1ehCD0aGZN8WAgz8WFumIb-zG22fAWmjXw/s1600/sull1.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEDlSIYgyyYn6oCmHa-iDDjO0mMC-OQxPMf6Bpf4fgpgIXvJ7ZveHsHWQi6A1FYXKtrbZ_mj3gUsxIwPcF53uzm-FIzd8bsDvOO7yY3pVTy1ehCD0aGZN8WAgz8WFumIb-zG22fAWmjXw/s320/sull1.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[<i>Star Waka</i> (1999)]</span></div><br />
<br />
Since 1990, he has written nine books: seven collections of poetry (the first five published by Auckland University Press, the other two by Huia Press and Salt (UK)). They include <i>Captain Cook in the Underworld </i>(2003), which is also a libretto for a composition by John Psathas; a graphic novel, illustrated by Chris Slane, called <i>Maui: Legends of the Outcast</i>; and a children’s book, <i>Weaving Earth and Sky: Myths and Legends of Aotearoa </i>(Random House), which won both book of the year and the non-fiction category in the 2003 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. His first book, <i>Jazz Waiata</i>, won the PEN (NZ) Best First Book of Poetry Award and he has twice been a finalist in the national New Zealand Book Awards for poetry – for <i>Star Waka </i>in 2000, and <i>Captain Cook in the Underworld </i>in 2003.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlyPlq0j2ZvmI241ORaW9SgcVXP7BXlHUsJkrE8EA57Nd0sadcT_sLZQ5zO6engu5lbJjHfPgK2QwVNnQ0uoKArz5tvon7-pTyS1F8xeNPo_74_TTKYknHT2KV0MIO4UqD04gg3H-ZbPw/s1600/sull2.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlyPlq0j2ZvmI241ORaW9SgcVXP7BXlHUsJkrE8EA57Nd0sadcT_sLZQ5zO6engu5lbJjHfPgK2QwVNnQ0uoKArz5tvon7-pTyS1F8xeNPo_74_TTKYknHT2KV0MIO4UqD04gg3H-ZbPw/s320/sull2.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[<i>Captain Cook in the Underworld</i> (2002)]</span></div><br />
<br />
In 1998 Sullivan was the literary fellow at the University of Auckland, and in 2001 the Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai‘i. He has performed his poetry at many festivals and literary events within New Zealand, Canada, Hawai‘i and Germany. He served a term on the UNESCO (New Zealand) Culture Subcommission, and a term on Creative New Zealand’s Literature Advisory Committee.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkUWUJOTVx4dEk_c_nXeD8NwsmMqg_UI3-CP33BMF3Ngixb-RaEOodNgo1MszF5zL8PN3Kb-35ER3xwWReJIGJaldhhzFNEsxGip6nStxpze-rmEBRA0VIPrz4aRzUdXJpCs7OsCpba9c/s1600/sull4.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkUWUJOTVx4dEk_c_nXeD8NwsmMqg_UI3-CP33BMF3Ngixb-RaEOodNgo1MszF5zL8PN3Kb-35ER3xwWReJIGJaldhhzFNEsxGip6nStxpze-rmEBRA0VIPrz4aRzUdXJpCs7OsCpba9c/s320/sull4.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[<i>Voice carried My Family</i> (2005)]</span></div><br />
<br />
He has co-edited, with Professor Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri, two anthologies of Polynesian poetry in English, <i>Whetu Moana</i> (2003) and <i>Mauri Ola</i> (2010). He also co-edits the online journal <a href="http://www.trout.auckland.ac.nz/">Trout</a> and is a featured author at the <a href="http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/sullivan/">New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre</a>.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnplIoawcFKjcM30X0_mRXknXrEGMgvtortiOMec2zNAHhLacwEG5CK-DkR9JkYQ_9XDB6wcBRmNvrFNwHPE7yvUUmGC3uXe-hiEnk27E9JWUe7ideXBsFE9SLKmaD4tniPMlQy01Bdwo/s1600/sull3.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnplIoawcFKjcM30X0_mRXknXrEGMgvtortiOMec2zNAHhLacwEG5CK-DkR9JkYQ_9XDB6wcBRmNvrFNwHPE7yvUUmGC3uXe-hiEnk27E9JWUe7ideXBsFE9SLKmaD4tniPMlQy01Bdwo/s320/sull3.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[<i>Cassino: City of Martyrs</i> (2010)]</span></div><br />
<br />
</blockquote>
<br />
<b>Contact Person for this event:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<a href="mailto:J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz">Dr Jack Ross</a><br />
English Lecturer<br />
Atrium L2.32<br />
School of English and Media Studies<br />
Pvt Bag 102 904<br />
North Shore Mail Centre<br />
Albany Campus<br />
Phone: 414-0800 x 43338<br />
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=345930">Massey University</a></blockquote>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Write-ups & Responses:</b><br />
<br />
<ol>
<li>Jennifer Little, <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=FECDEF4D-E93C-9429-218D-C7BB37F0836A">Massey News</a> (31 July, 2013):<br />
<br />
<blockquote>
<b>Writers Read: Poet of politics and Polynesia at Albany</b><br />
<br />
Award-winning poet, graphic novelist and children’s author Robert Sullivan will read and discuss his work at a Writers Read event at Massey University’s Albany campus on August 7.<br /><br />
Sullivan (of Ngāpuhi and Galway Irish descent) is head of the Creative Writing School at Manukau Institute of Technology, following his return from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, where he was an associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Programme.<br /><br />
He is widely known as one of New Zealand's most vibrant and accomplished writers, having written nine books since 1990.<br /><br />
These include seven books of poetry – the first five published by Auckland University Press, the other two by Huia Press and Salt (UK). His book <i>Captain Cook in the Underworld</i> (2003) is also a libretto for a composition by John Psathas.<br /><br />
He’s written a graphic novel, illustrated by Chris Slane, called <i>Maui: Legends of the Outcast</i>; and a children’s book, <i>Weaving Earth and Sky: Myths and Legends of Aotearoa</i> (Random House). Both won Book of the Year and the non-fiction category in the 2003 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.<br /><br />
His first book, <i>Jazz Waiata</i>, won the PEN (NZ) Best First Book of Poetry Award and he has twice been a finalist in the national New Zealand Book Awards for poetry – for <i>Star Waka</i> in 2000, and <i>Captain Cook in the Underworld</i> in 2003.<br /><br />
He also co-edited, with Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri, the award-winning anthologies <i>Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English</i> (2003) and <i>Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English – Whetu Moana II</i> (2010).<br /><br />
In 1998 Sullivan was the literary fellow at the University of Auckland, and in 2001 the Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai‘i. He served a term on the UNESCO (New Zealand) Culture Subcommission, and a term on Creative New Zealand’s Literature Advisory Committee. He has performed his poetry at many festivals and literary events within New Zealand, Canada, Hawai‘i and Germany. He also co-edits the online journal <a href="http://www.trout.auckland.ac.nz/">Trout</a> and is a featured author at the <a href="http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/sullivan/index.asp">New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre</a>.<br /><br />
“He's a very warm and genial speaker, and I think anyone who comes along will be more than entertained,” says Dr Jack Ross, poet and English senior lecturer in the School of English and Media Studies at the Albany campus.<br /><br />
Sullivan will read from and discuss his recent creative work, followed by a brief question and answer session from 12-1pm in the Study Centre Staff Lounge. The event is free and open to the public. For more information click <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/events/event-detail.cfm?event_id=41606C8E-CE02-5AAF-1264-F0F94F8CC2DB">here</a>.<br /></blockquote>
</li>
</ol>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>So far in this series:</b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-2.html">Sue Orr</a></span><br />
[1/5/13]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-1.html">C. K. Stead</a></span><br />
[27/3/13]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-3.html">Paula Green</a></span><br />
[13/9/12]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-2.html">John Adams</a></span><br />
[9/8/12]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-1.html">Jeffrey Masson</a></span><br />
[2/5/12]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-2.html">Ian Wedde</a></span><br />
[15/9/11]</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-1.html">Anne Kennedy</a></span><br />
[11/5/11]</b></div>Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-62679443018920645502013-02-23T08:23:00.000+13:002013-04-26T09:50:24.499+12:00Writers Read Series (2013): 2<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUr45a3ucYhIl-GKx21IbHFsqCcGGXv90ayt74tNNQIkSZaWleK_ACOXTgFTVjaZL_3mhan5_DNfAGlEidBVtE1ZtPNdGOutT8GPJnK-WkpppuPvFVm3f_wLIQR6m7vBHnQ2QNV-jIFwI/s1600/Sue.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUr45a3ucYhIl-GKx21IbHFsqCcGGXv90ayt74tNNQIkSZaWleK_ACOXTgFTVjaZL_3mhan5_DNfAGlEidBVtE1ZtPNdGOutT8GPJnK-WkpppuPvFVm3f_wLIQR6m7vBHnQ2QNV-jIFwI/s320/Sue.JPG" /></a><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Writers Read Series 2013:<br />Lunchtime Reading and Discussion -</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Orr,%20Sue">Sue Orr</a></span></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDocC0IP1qUwmZWqOsX-mSttw_P2o0ZQOemG31nQ9IvH5Gk2U4Ip3t9LVdN7YbqCtWKcpnwB8SnCp-e8fJmllKyA3GD6o5S5-kxUOLZVNiQmliSmRPjbF2h1DtHcYHPjKg8PCo-yPF510/s1600/Sue+small.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDocC0IP1qUwmZWqOsX-mSttw_P2o0ZQOemG31nQ9IvH5Gk2U4Ip3t9LVdN7YbqCtWKcpnwB8SnCp-e8fJmllKyA3GD6o5S5-kxUOLZVNiQmliSmRPjbF2h1DtHcYHPjKg8PCo-yPF510/s320/Sue+small.jpg" /></a><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Wednesday, May 1st<br /><br />12 noon-1.00 pm<br /><br />Staff Lounge<br />Study Centre<br />Albany Campus<br />Massey University</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />All Welcome!</span></b></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
This is the second this year in our Albany <i>Writers Read</i> series, sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies on Massey's Palmerston North, Wellington, and Albany campuses, and co-hosted in Auckland by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.<br />
<br />
Our speaker Sue Orr is one of New Zealand fiction's brightest new talents. She has written two books of short stories: <i>Etiquette for a Dinner Party</i> (2008) and <i>From Under the Overcoat</i> (2011), both published by Random House New Zealand. The first of these won the 2007 Lilian Ida Smith Award, and was listed in the <i>NZ Listener</i>’s Top 100 Books of 2008. The second was a finalist in the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards, and won the NZ Post People's Choice Award.<br />
<br />
Sue has a background in journalism and speechwriting. She will read from and discuss her recent creative work, followed by a brief question and answer session.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>More about Sue Orr:</b><br />
<br />
<blockquote>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN2g8HkNnEkkv6-xDLTCJpsHb24ytgWTm7AXKe-6nhCd5af6rRTgBbNGLhBFKc7_RPg-pHZn-K9brJb6oRE9L_uy-F6_0j3InWCgglr3oFJZn8P1AWuGaWAWX42vNreM7Z4vG6TBR1DmU/s1600/orr.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN2g8HkNnEkkv6-xDLTCJpsHb24ytgWTm7AXKe-6nhCd5af6rRTgBbNGLhBFKc7_RPg-pHZn-K9brJb6oRE9L_uy-F6_0j3InWCgglr3oFJZn8P1AWuGaWAWX42vNreM7Z4vG6TBR1DmU/s320/orr.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[<i>Etiquette for a Dinner Party</i> (2008) /<br />
<i>From Under the Overcoat</i> (2011)]</span></div><br />
<br />
Sue Orr was born in Thames and grew up on the Hauraki Plains. She attended Waikato University from 1980 to 1983, where she completed a BA in History and French. She then attended Auckland Technical Institute in 1983 and studied for a Diploma in Journalism. In 2006 she completed her Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Victoria University.<br />
<br />
She has worked as a journalist in Tokoroa, Tauranga, Wellington, London and Paris. In 1996 she returned from France to work as a contract writer and speechwriter in Wellington. <br />
<br />
Her first book of stories, <i>Etiquette for a Dinner Party</i>, was published in 2008. It won the 2007 Lilian Ida Smith Award, was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and was listed in the NZ Listener’s Top 100 Books of 2008.<br />
<br />
Her second book, <i>From Under the Overcoat</i>, published in 2011, was a finalist in the NZ Post Book Awards, and won the NZ Post People's Choice Award. She lists among her favourite writers Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Grace Paley, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Richard Ford and Italo Calvino. <br />
<br />
She lives on the North Shore, and is presently enrolled for a PhD in Creative Writing at International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University, Wellington.
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<b>Contact Person for this event:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<a href="mailto:J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz">Dr Jack Ross</a><br />
English Lecturer<br />
Atrium L2.32<br />
School of English and Media Studies<br />
Pvt Bag 102 904<br />
North Shore Mail Centre<br />
Albany Campus<br />
Phone: 414-0800 x 43338<br />
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=345930">Massey University</a></blockquote>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Next in this series:</b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b>Wednesday, August 7, 2013<br />12.00-1.00 pm<br />Study Centre Staff Lounge<br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-3.html">Robert Sullivan</a></span></b></div>Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-17515884901730947562013-02-21T08:05:00.000+13:002013-05-01T08:42:18.625+12:00Writers Read Series (2013): 1<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDbLkcI68J0eTVn0ftzeLE7F_XJCj36nzJt_DI9jSD3zHFEBouJZipx_F9SZ4WbsaV7nP-DUThyphenhyphenmMmXZtCq2sxkoOaqVgh-zQHfMTWZO4lD1kW_KDM8RB9ZPvzcYZrSgkHmtjZ-8jGqmQ/s1600/New+Image.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDbLkcI68J0eTVn0ftzeLE7F_XJCj36nzJt_DI9jSD3zHFEBouJZipx_F9SZ4WbsaV7nP-DUThyphenhyphenmMmXZtCq2sxkoOaqVgh-zQHfMTWZO4lD1kW_KDM8RB9ZPvzcYZrSgkHmtjZ-8jGqmQ/s320/New+Image.JPG" /></a><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Writers Read Series 2013:<br />Lunchtime Reading and Discussion -</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/steadck.html">C. K. Stead</a></span></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiREzPnd_ROYdHMTh0Iw9h7I-Z05-Cy712kMstWEHVB0IKZZ-kmgDWaJKmppBtlztm7nPjeecwJAv0qb1yToT8eaNi0woc9G45-WaSV7Y4GhoaG25mqG3K7HCVdRAynpaHGQ72p-HxKAQM/s1600/stead-small.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiREzPnd_ROYdHMTh0Iw9h7I-Z05-Cy712kMstWEHVB0IKZZ-kmgDWaJKmppBtlztm7nPjeecwJAv0qb1yToT8eaNi0woc9G45-WaSV7Y4GhoaG25mqG3K7HCVdRAynpaHGQ72p-HxKAQM/s320/stead-small.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[Photograph: Marti Friedlander (2010)]</span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Wednesday, March 27th<br /><br />12 noon-1.00 pm<br /><br />Round Room<br />Atrium Building (Ground Floor)<br />Albany Campus<br />Massey University</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />All Welcome!</span></b></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
This is the first this year in our Albany <i>Writers Read</i> series, sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies on Massey's Palmerston North, Wellington, and Albany campuses, and co-hosted here in Auckland by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.<br />
<br />
Our speaker, C. K. Stead, is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and versatile authors: poet, novelist, scholar, critic, and Emeritus Professor at Auckland University. Over a career of more than fifty years, he has published numerous books of poetry, essays and literary criticism, as well as twelve novels and two books of short stories. His <i>Collected Poems 1951-2006</i>, which won a Montana New Zealand Book Award, came out from Auckland University Press in 2008. A memoir of his early life, <i>South West of Eden</i>, appeared in 2009.<br />
<br />
Professor Stead will be reading from and discussing his most recent work: his new book of poems <i>The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007–2012</i>, published last month, and the novel <i>Risk</i>, which appeared late last year.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>More about C. K. Stead:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipTlWEKLqlJxsJQxEHZNCQsghxXAECHtUGRwSTcLWhZW_F4r-sN0wNXm_YQfbROWzNDHF95HwSOP_cVbQ2_g-F1Cme_rXPky5e50_ZFZKPs-W-lNUXJMIVPOkMszH6ODlwEoGfut22f8/s1600/young2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipTlWEKLqlJxsJQxEHZNCQsghxXAECHtUGRwSTcLWhZW_F4r-sN0wNXm_YQfbROWzNDHF95HwSOP_cVbQ2_g-F1Cme_rXPky5e50_ZFZKPs-W-lNUXJMIVPOkMszH6ODlwEoGfut22f8/s320/young2.jpg" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
C(hristian) K(arlson) Stead, b. Auckland, 1932, was one of the new NZ poets of the 1950s and ‘60s, and earned an international reputation as a literary critic, particularly with the publication of <i>The New Poetic: Yeats to Eliot</i>, for several decades a standard text on literary Modernism in British universities.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSz9Jl9glydp-HYImLkHUy2YS_md2npDGR_P66Hvj76cHhuB6SN7qvC422Q_EorqHWfZwaeul04_fUuiK3Kxdl2XFxuNtc90qZaLuHgoNX-sYV2fe_W_BhIcjT5j3bFOQRm8wk6Q8MB0/s1600/new+poetic.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSz9Jl9glydp-HYImLkHUy2YS_md2npDGR_P66Hvj76cHhuB6SN7qvC422Q_EorqHWfZwaeul04_fUuiK3Kxdl2XFxuNtc90qZaLuHgoNX-sYV2fe_W_BhIcjT5j3bFOQRm8wk6Q8MB0/s320/new+poetic.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[<i>The New Poetic</i> (1964)]</span></div>
<br />
<br />
He was Professor of English at the University of Auckland for twenty years, established a creative writing course there in the 1980s, and took early retirement (aged 53) in 1986 to write full time. He has won the Jessie Mackay Award for poetry, the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award, the Landfall Readers’ Award (for the best poem in <i>Landfall</i>’s first 15 years of publication), the New Zealand Book Award for fiction (twice), the Katherine Mansfield Menton fellowship, the King’s Lynn Poetry Award, the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship, the 2010 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, the 2010 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, and a number of other literary awards, as well as Nuffield and Fulbright Travelling Fellowships. His <i>Collected Poems, 1951-2006</i> was awarded the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Reference and Anthology.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaPd0oCsC0LNwDYiNMky7ZE4_NLpMNCaW4O1zQTYQJceoiHpzkIWY4y-DbQGSBsz1A_MLqKg3KDrtq4oWxRCUNgyXhNDpwjpZBsqq2OQope9LtPMq-Ma54SivtgmZUdJzLTu0v62w9s1E/s1600/poetry.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaPd0oCsC0LNwDYiNMky7ZE4_NLpMNCaW4O1zQTYQJceoiHpzkIWY4y-DbQGSBsz1A_MLqKg3KDrtq4oWxRCUNgyXhNDpwjpZBsqq2OQope9LtPMq-Ma54SivtgmZUdJzLTu0v62w9s1E/s320/poetry.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[poetry]</span></div>
<br />
<br />
His novel <i>Smith’s Dream</i> (1971) became Roger Donaldson’s first movie, <i>Sleeping Dogs</i> (which was also Sam Neill’s first movie role). <i>The Secret History of Modernism</i>, published in the U.K. in 2001, was described by the <i>Irish Times </i>as ‘brilliant… as subtle as Jane Austen and as fatalistic as Thomas Hardy’. The <i>Spectator </i>(U.K.) reviewer of his eighth novel, <i>Talking about O’Dwyer</i>, wrote ‘It seems incontestable that C.K.Stead is among the very best contemporary novelists’. More recently, <i>Mansfield</i> (2004) and <i>My Name is Judas</i> (2006) were both shortlisted in the fiction section of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC0i0T478pAG5nOI4uEPPL5jHpr_T2c_PcydcQFQr4UhNMw4YVT4811hj_3zkVq_5P0ZqTHjAHfAAYCudcTMP2nmyeOM34O6Zy4Jmeb0DirZG-8xVYkIzH5V-ZjzZPdJpOqSv8XwBbGK0/s1600/fiction1.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC0i0T478pAG5nOI4uEPPL5jHpr_T2c_PcydcQFQr4UhNMw4YVT4811hj_3zkVq_5P0ZqTHjAHfAAYCudcTMP2nmyeOM34O6Zy4Jmeb0DirZG-8xVYkIzH5V-ZjzZPdJpOqSv8XwBbGK0/s320/fiction1.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[fiction]</span></div>
<br />
<br />
He has also published two collections of short stories, seven books of literary criticism, and edited a number of other books, including the Penguin Modern Classics selection of Katherine Mansfield’s <i>Letters and Journals</i>, and the <i>Collected Stories</i> of Maurice Duggan. His work is represented in all major New Zealand anthologies of poetry and short fiction of the past several decades.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb53g24K_6ezGtcRdCNJN-HXrnNbuHDPv-En1twBLLJXUQ_1gDlV7S6CM-NSBc6GLuZzKX64Ast0XZnE134dBResduBS0ZrjUqF9FFLuaB87WEEtD81kU14mXUjnNqxMNTzJBKwWivYAA/s1600/mansfield.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb53g24K_6ezGtcRdCNJN-HXrnNbuHDPv-En1twBLLJXUQ_1gDlV7S6CM-NSBc6GLuZzKX64Ast0XZnE134dBResduBS0ZrjUqF9FFLuaB87WEEtD81kU14mXUjnNqxMNTzJBKwWivYAA/s320/mansfield.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[Katherine Mansfield]</span></div>
<br />
<br />
His novels are published simultaneously in New Zealand and the U.K. and have been variously translated into French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese and Croatian. He was awarded the C.B.E. in 1985 for services to New Zealand literature, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1995, an Honorary Visiting Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, in 1997, and awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by the University of Bristol in 2001. He was made a Member of the Order of New Zealand in 2007.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbN9deAYshIVQMFfzgekT24xOEKvPutC0ceK3ronX1QRH-F9tE4NmX9m6iFJ12XDMwVQ01aZxFHbNhHU4bWmbU_6vhPUxRXPdOYw6_t3lsivdJFMjQBhFLr25gFH-L_ey_kdvoP1iTvVc/s1600/prose1.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbN9deAYshIVQMFfzgekT24xOEKvPutC0ceK3ronX1QRH-F9tE4NmX9m6iFJ12XDMwVQ01aZxFHbNhHU4bWmbU_6vhPUxRXPdOYw6_t3lsivdJFMjQBhFLr25gFH-L_ey_kdvoP1iTvVc/s320/prose1.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[non-fiction]</span></div>
<br />
<br />
His twelfth novel, <i>Risk</i>, was published in November 2012, and his sixteenth book of poems, <i>The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007–2012</i>, in February 2013.<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitetuAf9jZssoLcsXf9r08lLXsw2xX4g-NxjNA0enfRA6qYtpZfTSTMV5mTugkwiwbxcW9WCGx37oZAAyR9nevDh-gEbvrc1oOOdnbhlxrvcGAJ32ELs_Dtv3KSpVSCG6mPjzZ7wreN9s/s1600/bookstack2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitetuAf9jZssoLcsXf9r08lLXsw2xX4g-NxjNA0enfRA6qYtpZfTSTMV5mTugkwiwbxcW9WCGx37oZAAyR9nevDh-gEbvrc1oOOdnbhlxrvcGAJ32ELs_Dtv3KSpVSCG6mPjzZ7wreN9s/s320/bookstack2.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[Book Self]</span></div>
<br />
<br />
He is married with three children.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>Contact Person for this event:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<a href="mailto:J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz">Dr Jack Ross</a><br />
English Lecturer<br />
Atrium L2.32<br />
School of English and Media Studies<br />
Pvt Bag 102 904<br />
North Shore Mail Centre<br />
Albany Campus<br />
Phone: 414-0800 x 43338<br />
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=345930">Massey University</a></blockquote>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Write-ups & Responses:</b><br />
<br />
<ol>
<li>Sonia Yoshioka-Braid, <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=34EC79D3-FAF8-BD6B-92A5-7B3AD9F18DA6">Massey News</a> (20 March, 2013):<br />
<br />
<blockquote>
<b>C. K. Stead presents his poetry at Writers Read</b><br />
<br />
One of New Zealand’s best-known authors, C.K. Stead, is guest speaker at
the first event in Massey University’s 2013 Writers Read series, at
Albany on March 27.<br /><br />The distinguished poet, novelist, scholar,
critic and Emeritus Professor at Auckland University, has a career
spanning more than 50 years. <br /><br />Professor Stead will be reading
from and discussing his most recent work: his new book of poems The
Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007 - 2012, published last month, and the novel
Risk, which was published in late 2012.<br /><br />He has published numerous
books of poetry, essays and literary criticism, as well as 12 novels
and two books of short stories. His Collected Poems 1951-2006, published
by Auckland University Press, appeared in 2008. A memoir of his early
life, South West of Eden, appeared in 2009.<br /><br />Professor Stead’s
lecture will be held in the Round Room of the Atrium Building on
Wednesday March 27, starting at 12 noon. It is free to anyone wishing to
attend.<br /><br />Writers Read is an annual series of readings by some of
New Zealand’s foremost authors, with events held on all three Massey
campuses in Auckland, Palmerston North and Wellington. Sponsored by the
School of English and Media Studies, the Palmerston North City Library
and the Office of the Campus Registrar, Wellington, the series started
as a partnership with the Palmerston North City Library eight years ago.<br /><br />For more information on the Writers Read series, go to: <a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-1.html">http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-1.html </a><br /><br />Future Dates for Writers Read Series at Albany<br /><br />May 1 – Sue Orr – at the Study Centre Staff Lounge, Albany<br />August 7 – Robert Sullivan – at the Study Centre Staff Lounge, Albany<br />25 September – Student and staff event – at the Study Centre Staff Lounge, Albany<br />.<br /></blockquote>
</li>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6-ohKPD9P6C98PptN2vOn8_dfWH1tLHJ6MkdJTniIBZEhWcn7uCERnwAGp3ZcMDBwujUNbck0enUiniJFhoBEzP36YTvhH3auLxqfnzirdE0O65UgnTHF3TG0T62kFhMgG23Oku769jY/s1600/Karl+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6-ohKPD9P6C98PptN2vOn8_dfWH1tLHJ6MkdJTniIBZEhWcn7uCERnwAGp3ZcMDBwujUNbck0enUiniJFhoBEzP36YTvhH3auLxqfnzirdE0O65UgnTHF3TG0T62kFhMgG23Oku769jY/s320/Karl+2.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Jack Ross & C. K. Stead (27/3/13)<br />
[photograph: Jennifer Little]</span></div><br />
<br />
<li>Christine O'Brien, <a href="http://www.press.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/events/template/event_item.jsp?cid=553574">Auckland University Press News</a> (25 March, 2013):<br />
<br />
<blockquote>
<b>C. K. Stead at Albany Writers Read</b><br />
<br />
27 March 2013<br />
<br />
12–1pm<br />
<br />
Venue: Study Centre Staff Lounge - Round Room, Atrium Building (Ground Floor), Massey Albany<br />
<br />
Host: Massey Albany<br />
<br />
Cost: Free event<br />
<br />
Contact info: Dr Jack Ross<br />
<br />
Contact email: <a href="mailto:j.r.ross@massey.ac.nz">j.r.ross@massey.ac.nz</a><br />
<br />
Website: <a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/">Albany Writers Read</a><br />
<br />
The Albany Writers Read series kicks off for 2013 with C. K. Stead in a lunchtime reading from and discussion about his newly published collection of poems, The Yellow Buoy. <br />
<br />
C. K. Stead was born in Auckland in 1932. From the late 1950s, he began to earn an international reputation as a poet and literary critic and, later, as a novelist. He has published more than 40 books and received numerous prizes and honours recognising his contribution to New Zealand literature, including in 2009 the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction and the Montana New Zealand Book Award (Reference and Anthology) for his Collected Poems , and in 2010 the Sunday Times /EFG Private Bank Award for the short story, and the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. He received our highest award, the Order of New Zealand, in 2007.<br />
<br />
</blockquote>
</li>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-a9fttE7YAeJYy7jj7eS76vuLDyjSVgWPK7E_XziYiJrbUb1uCZwfdjKw59FAF0PzdZk3EwWVj3Xcw7ios6vUv8L5dKXnAI6ES8CguyyueHIsfUBGxpNXJibRrRE_UTBqCqgvU3zeCn8/s1600/Jack+&+Karl.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-a9fttE7YAeJYy7jj7eS76vuLDyjSVgWPK7E_XziYiJrbUb1uCZwfdjKw59FAF0PzdZk3EwWVj3Xcw7ios6vUv8L5dKXnAI6ES8CguyyueHIsfUBGxpNXJibRrRE_UTBqCqgvU3zeCn8/s320/Jack+&+Karl.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Jack & Karl</span></div><br />
<br />
<li>Jennifer Little, <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=34EC79D3-FAF8-BD6B-92A5-7B3AD9F18DA6">Massey News</a> (26 March, 2013):<br />
<br />
<blockquote>
<b>NZ literary stars at Massey in Writers Read series</b><br />
<br />
Fancy a short story with your sandwiches, a prize-winning poem with your panini? A stellar line-up of New Zealand’s literary talent – including C.K. Stead and Emily Perkins – has been confirmed for this year’s Writers Read series, which runs at lunchtimes on all three campuses.<br />
<br />
The series kicks off this Wednesday, March 27 with renowned poet, novelist, literary scholar and critic C.K. Stead reading from his latest poetry collection and his latest novel at the Albany campus.<br />
<br />
He is one of seven writers who will give readings at Massey’s three campuses in the coming months. Short story writer Sue Orr will read at Albany on May 1, and poet Robert Sullivan on August 7.<br />
<br />
C. K. Stead is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and versatile authors. Over a career of more than 50 years, he has published numerous books of poetry, essays and literary criticism, as well as 12 novels and two books of short stories. His <i>Collected Poems 1951-2006</i>, which won a Montana New Zealand Book Award, came out from Auckland University Press in 2008. A memoir of his early life, <i>South West of Eden</i>, appeared in 2009.<br />
<br />
Professor Stead will be reading from and discussing his most recent work: his new book of poems <i>The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007–2012</i>, published last month, and the novel <i>Risk</i>, which appeared late last year.<br />
<br />
Creative Writing lecturer Dr Jack Ross says Massey students and staff are “exceptionally privileged to be able to listen to such a multi-talented and internationally acclaimed writer here in our own backyard.<br />
<br />
“I think it will be inspirational for our writing students to see just how much can be accomplished if you set your sights high enough. Academics, too, will be interested to hear that C. K. Stead gave up a tenured position at the Auckland English Department to become a full-time writer. Now people all over the world are reading his work!”<br />
<br />
At the Manawatü campus, literary fans can hear poetry by this year’s Visiting Artist Helen Lehndorf on April 24, followed by award-winning novelist Emily Perkins on May 17 and poet Anna Jackson on August 16. Perkins won the Montana Medal for Fiction at the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards for <i>Novel About my Wife </i>(Bloomsbury 2008), and her latest book <i>The Forrests </i>(Bloomsbury, 2012) has received critical acclaim.<br />
<br />
Writers at the Wellington campus include Helen Lehndorf on April 17, and playwright Jo Randerson on May 15.<br />
<br />
The series will conclude in September with panel discussions at the Manawatü and Wellington campuses, as well as a staff and student event at Albany. The series is sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies, Palmerston North City Library, and the Office of the Campus Registrar at the Wellington campus.<br />
<br />
For more information on venues, go to:
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-english-media-studies/about/events/writers-read.cfm">http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-english-media-studies/about/events/writers-read.cfm</a><br />
<br />
C.K. Stead will be in the Atrium Round Room at 12 noon on Wednesday, March 27.<br />
<br />
</blockquote>
</li>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw0eShiH6mkI1AppNeYLzbdQZlbVTQLrMezWvj5XzD2ABVchhzKDqt3af_eem8J9HrNq63ZwkSD97xkREeLVvDDvA8xkK0WRCoHUOV8ZFN9zYIiAHo0tMr0OYZ7mhfneWM9Bcoh5NF1H0/s1600/massive+steada.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw0eShiH6mkI1AppNeYLzbdQZlbVTQLrMezWvj5XzD2ABVchhzKDqt3af_eem8J9HrNq63ZwkSD97xkREeLVvDDvA8xkK0WRCoHUOV8ZFN9zYIiAHo0tMr0OYZ7mhfneWM9Bcoh5NF1H0/s320/massive+steada.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[Jessica Frank: <a href="http://www.massivemagazine.org.nz/blog/7927/in-good-stead/">In Good Stead</a> (2013)]</span></div><br />
<br />
<li>Jessica Frank, "In Good Stead." <a href="http://www.massivemagazine.org.nz/blog/7927/in-good-stead/">Massive</a> 2 (2013): 7.<br />
<br />
<blockquote>
<b>In Good Stead</b><br />
<br />
On March 27, students and staff alike gathered in an intimate fashion with hot cross buns and refreshments in hand. The first of the Writers Read series was due to commence at the stroke of noon, and we were soon to be introduced to C.K Stead.<br />
<br />
C.K Stead is an academic, a novelist, a poet, a critic, and a front-runner in the New Zealand literary world. As he walked on stage and stood behind the Massey University podium, one could appreciate that age sat wary on his shoulders. Despite this, he began to speak of his career and his journey as a writer with confidence and care. His literary success is one which has branched itself out of our small-niche country and found itself growing shoots overseas. He has been a figure in New Zealand literature since the 1950’s, and in 2013 he reads from his newly published novel and his new anthology of poems.<br />
<br />
Stead is best known for his novel <i>Smith’s Dream</i> (1971), which was filmed under the title <i>Sleeping Dogs</i> (1977); for his internationally successful novels published in the 1980’s and the early 1990’s, two of which have taken out places in the fiction section of the New Zealand Book Awards; and for his outspoken critique of liberal positions in education, justice, and literary affairs. Sleeping Dogs was also the first New Zealand film to be released into international waters.
Though Stead is now a renowned novelist and poet, he began his career as an academic. As one could understand, this presented a great barrier between him and his creative drive, limiting his career as a writer, but also shaping it in chorus. Due to the strenuous environment that a professor must cope with, there was little time for furthering productively. Early on in his career, his reputation as a writer depended heavily on a few poems and a handful of short stories which were widely spread apart, yet widely admired.<br />
<br />
As Stead discussed his academic career he commented that “I could never take university teaching lightly enough – I was sort of shy and afraid of making a goat of myself.” Therefore, he never found it appropriate to take time off, or put in a little less effort. Having a lecturer like this would be great. Though for Stead, this was detrimental to his writing efforts. However, from critics and admirers alike, Stead’s career has displayed verbal prowess allied with inspired discipline, a lively caricature and an ingenious mind for storytelling. Unlike other authors and poets, he has been said to draw upon new ideas and themes in every piece of his work, constantly drawn to innovative challenges. If anyone was to pick up his work now they could see they are incoherently individual and the only obvious theme would be his own personality that streams through the page.<br />
<br />
Another New Zealand writer, Michael Morrissey, referred to Stead as “arguably our most successful literary chameleon.” Stead does not write for the interests and pleasures of others, but invites readers to share in his mind and draws them in with his stories his way, revealing a bit of himself with every turn of a phrase. As a result of this, his writing is fundamentally realist in nature – confessional – a voice that is consistent throughout his works of fiction, criticism and poetry. Though Stead would rather relate himself to an “autobiographical poet”, told through his various personas. His life often bleeds through his work, his friendships, his career, and relationships, and various blunders come under the light in selected poems and novels. He presents his life under a veil of fiction that is alarmingly transparent.<br />
<br />
Through this he displays courage that is not often seen in writers of fiction. He publically digests his past in spite of his critical reputation. The guise of fiction that hangs over his life prevents any sure collaboration between his life and his stories, teasing his readers and critics. As a wishful storyteller myself, I feel as I am not so strange for wanting to tell my stories and my life through the façade of another character. On his writing process, Stead remarked that he was unable to focus on both fiction and poetry simultaneously. “My poetry disappeared through my fiction.” And though his novels have been globally successful, he confessed that “poetry satisfies me the most”. Despite the time and effort needed for novels he believed there is “no other satisfaction that beats writing a poem that truly works.”<br />
<br />
Without a hint of remorse he put the process of poetry as such: “One is an orderly person, and a poem is somewhat disorderly. You get to take this disorderly world and shape it, mould it until you have created something perfect.” During the Q&A session following Stead’s presentation, we managed to gather some insight into Stead himself. Because there is a great stigma about being a writer in New Zealand, this was a great opportunity to ask him about his experience as a Kiwi author. When asked about the advantages and disadvantages, Stead fumbled over his words and jokingly replied: “Well, there must be some advantages, right?” He shared that “when I went overseas on a scholarship and did my PhD and I had the opportunity to stay I can running back. I was so scared that I would get such a taste for it that I wouldn’t ever come back.”<br />
<br />
He said he wanted to be a part of the growth of New Zealand literature – to be a part of something that was only just beginning. He finished by saying that “no matter where you are, you are going to be more aware of the disadvantages than the advantages.” This really spoke volumes to me because it was easy to understand that despite the isolation of our country, the chances are more in favour, and the community seems to be tightly knit, close. Stead’s personality showed through when he was asked where his ideas came from. “Well, who the hell knows, you just hope they come.” When asked if he believed English degrees were relevant to a writing career he insisted that having a great backing, from those who went before was essential for your own writing, And that without it, you have nothing to base your work off, nothing to come from.<br />
<br />
In time, in society where we watch more and read less, work harder and enjoy not as much, and write fewer of the things we want and more of the things we have to, it is hard to imagine being successful in your hobby and making your interests your success. However much being an accomplished writer is a mere pipe dream, Stead is proof that if you are good and it is what you want to do, then you can.<br />
<br />
</blockquote>
</li>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE0APtdjSuvI9asyRUCnPyfOH7mjebwOMRvXj3XQ8bhdx_Dbvy83_LjIkAkWoLOuJU2IxZjSWHUxtC4wbs6Z50bWYlMOpHNsLBy1dcAn9lKRBTdghrd5JxXBP69GO46NX0fg8KsDjQL7E/s1600/massive+3+(2013)a.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE0APtdjSuvI9asyRUCnPyfOH7mjebwOMRvXj3XQ8bhdx_Dbvy83_LjIkAkWoLOuJU2IxZjSWHUxtC4wbs6Z50bWYlMOpHNsLBy1dcAn9lKRBTdghrd5JxXBP69GO46NX0fg8KsDjQL7E/s320/massive+3+(2013)a.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[<a href="http://www.massivemagazine.org.nz/">Massive</a> 2 (2013)]</span></div><br />
<br />
</ol>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Next in this series:</b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b>Wednesday, May 1, 2013<br />12.00-1.00 pm<br />Study Centre Staff Lounge<br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-2.html">Sue Orr</a></span></b></div><br />
<br />
Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-15273434260329365132012-06-10T10:53:00.000+12:002013-03-01T10:17:03.256+13:00Writers Read Series (2012): 3<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Writers Read Series 2012:<br />Lunchtime Reading and Discussion -</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/greenpaula.html">Paula Green</a></span></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYX8glPrAgmVQFu5NqPsGTQIeiBN5vp2pvlS0rvDAXBS8914Oq88LsmlTSbP-47V1Mfs1WadmJllzQWH_pL6dHLVX7jZxvL4s-F6ItmM-ub6K6c0h_Cd1Y_fMI83DszJykcgqSe5cLRcKC/s1600/Paula+Green1.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709149350752392594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYX8glPrAgmVQFu5NqPsGTQIeiBN5vp2pvlS0rvDAXBS8914Oq88LsmlTSbP-47V1Mfs1WadmJllzQWH_pL6dHLVX7jZxvL4s-F6ItmM-ub6K6c0h_Cd1Y_fMI83DszJykcgqSe5cLRcKC/s400/Paula+Green1.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 336px;" /></a><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Thursday, September 13th<br /><br />12 noon-1.00 pm<br /><br />Staff Common Room<br />Study Centre<br />Albany Campus<br />Massey University</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />All Welcome!</span></b></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
This is the third this year in our Albany <i>Writers Read</i> series, sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies on Massey's Palmerston North, Wellington, and Albany campuses, and co-hosted here in Auckland by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.<br />
<br />
Our speaker, Paula Green, is one of New Zealand's most celebrated authors and poetry critics. She has also published a number of children's books, including <i>Flamingo Bendalingo</i> (2006) and <i>Aunt Concertina and her Niece Evalina</i> (2009), and (with Harry Ricketts) the critical book <i>99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry</i> (2010).<br />
<br />
Paula will read from and discuss her recent creative work, followed by a brief question and answer session. Light refreshments will be provided.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>More about Paula Green:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
Paula Green lives in West Auckland with painter Michael Hight and their two children. She completed her doctoral thesis on Italian women’s literature of the twentieth century in 2004. She has taught in the Italian Department, Film and Television Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Auckland. She is a fiction and poetry reviewer for the <i>New Zealand Herald</i>.<br />
<br />
Auckland University Press has published five collections of her poetry, <i>Cookhouse</i> (1997), <i>Chrome</i> (2000), <i>Crosswind</i> (2004), <i>Making Lists for Francis Hodgkins</i> (2007) and <i>Slip Stream</i> (2010). Her essays, poetry, and short fiction have appeared in journals in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United States, Great Britain, and India. She has appeared in a number of New Zealand Writers Festivals and regularly visits schools through the New Zealand Book Council. She was the 2005 Literary Fellow at The University of Auckland. She edited <i>Best New Zealand Poems</i> in 2007 and was the 2008 judge of the New Zealand Secondary School Poetry Competition.<br />
<br />
In 2011 she undertook ‘The Poetry Project: A Thousand Poems For Our Place,’ supported by The Michael King Writers’ Centre and Auckland Council.<br />
<br />
Her first children's book, <i>Flamingo Bendalingo: Poems from the Zoo</i>, was published by Auckland University Press in 2006. The collection is written by Paula Green and 50 children, with illustrations by Michael Hight. The work was listed as a 2007 Storylines Notable Non-Fiction Book.<br />
<br />
Her critical book <i>99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry</i> was a finalist in the General Non-Fiction category of the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards. She recently edited <i>Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems</i>, published by Random House.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>Contact Person for this event:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<a href="mailto:J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz">Dr Jack Ross</a><br />
English Lecturer<br />
Atrium L2.32<br />
School of English and Media Studies<br />
Pvt Bag 102 904<br />
North Shore Mail Centre<br />
Albany Campus<br />
Phone: 414-0800 x 9506<br />
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=345930">Massey University</a></blockquote>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Pictures:</b>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQZXkyCO6F6nB-lEamL1YCFABeAOmB4Es_Xrh6SXJCVkPd5Kw2vIE57Bdew87V3Hm05Msp0uvDk9RCj8vdFaJpl-9D5G-ZRMrvgDSWZ9vM-FHq6X8wZk4Atp_NUM9DIGyCloXmwQ9crw/s1600/DSC04369.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQZXkyCO6F6nB-lEamL1YCFABeAOmB4Es_Xrh6SXJCVkPd5Kw2vIE57Bdew87V3Hm05Msp0uvDk9RCj8vdFaJpl-9D5G-ZRMrvgDSWZ9vM-FHq6X8wZk4Atp_NUM9DIGyCloXmwQ9crw/s400/DSC04369.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Paula gets ready to read</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWjyzQXPmXi9pEhGTivMgVN2ncmZxQU6yx3Chya27DMzz65X7IW95Bpkc56Mlznl-DpU07fFFBo0LcJfVlEvy6_2BxRzuqU2iJfyxw4ICFnBL9EUOSlT4p4b715HpawEvuA4r2mdURgzc/s1600/DSC04368.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWjyzQXPmXi9pEhGTivMgVN2ncmZxQU6yx3Chya27DMzz65X7IW95Bpkc56Mlznl-DpU07fFFBo0LcJfVlEvy6_2BxRzuqU2iJfyxw4ICFnBL9EUOSlT4p4b715HpawEvuA4r2mdURgzc/s400/DSC04368.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">... as the audience gathers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 78%;">[photographs: Bronwyn Lloyd]</span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Next in this series:</b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b>Wednesday, March 27, 2013<br />12.00-1.00 pm<br />The Round Room<br />Atrium Building Ground Floor<br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-1.html">C. K. Stead</a></span></b></div><br />
<br />Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-65338291936884081482012-06-09T10:51:00.000+12:002013-03-01T10:16:19.566+13:00Writers Read Series (2012): 2<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Writers Read Series 2012:<br />Lunchtime Reading and Discussion -</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><a href="https://jacket2.org/content/john-adams">John Adams</a></span></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwkDJ0Scuz1wvpDplOX06D3KdgeLmQmKZizy8T-G100AoYmQznw2VBq23hGfGyLDG-doTtpjJwBQ8oSNlB96I2Z1Rj-WWLr33x479-JY1bTmtyXzHs5R_A9NesWt_HmjEr5Y4MUrqCNDvH/s1600/Adams%252C+John.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708444948535139554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwkDJ0Scuz1wvpDplOX06D3KdgeLmQmKZizy8T-G100AoYmQznw2VBq23hGfGyLDG-doTtpjJwBQ8oSNlB96I2Z1Rj-WWLr33x479-JY1bTmtyXzHs5R_A9NesWt_HmjEr5Y4MUrqCNDvH/s400/Adams%252C+John.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 301px;" /></a><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Thursday, August 9th<br /><br />12 noon-1.00 pm<br /><br />Staff Lounge<br />Study Centre<br />Albany Campus<br />Massey University</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />All Welcome!</span></b></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
This is the second this year in our Albany <i>Writers Read</i> series, sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies on Massey's Palmerston North, Wellington, and Albany campuses, and co-hosted in Auckland by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.<br />
<br />
District Court and Family Court judge at Auckland by day, our speaker John Adams has a Masters in Creative Writing from The University of Auckland and is a poet by night. He is a long-time author of legal texts - such as the Butterworths Family Law series. His poetry book <i>Briefcase</i> was drafted during his Masters year in 2009, and was published by Auckland University Press in 2011. It won Best First Book of Poems in the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards.<br />
<br />
John will read from and discuss his more recent creative work, followed by a brief question and answer session. Light refreshments will be provided.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>More about John Adams:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
In his <i>Listener</i> review of John Adams' first poetry book <i>Briefcase</i>, published by <a href="http://www.press.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/browse-books/new/notices/template/notice_item.jsp?cid=414349">Auckland University Press</a> in October 2011, US-based critic <a href="http://www.listener.co.nz/culture/books/briefcase-by-john-adams-review/">Hugh Roberts</a> remarks:<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
At first, <i>Briefcase</i> reads a little like a case we are to solve, puzzle-like (among many other complex formal and typographical tricks and word games, the book includes two letter-based sudokus based on the words “poetry” and “law”), but we gradually realise Adams has more fundamental questions in mind. He is interested – as any poet or lawyer must be – in the inevitable slippage or betrayal that falls between the indeterminate flux of lived experience and the attempt to shoehorn that experience into a publicly accessible linguistic form: guilty or not guilty, “verity” or falsehood.</blockquote>
<br />
He goes on to claim that "What is on trial in this collection is language itself: no word in this volume is innocent of double-meaning." Whether that's true or not, Adams' book does include the following caution on its cover: <br />
<blockquote>
<br />
WARNING: contains legal documents and poems.</blockquote>
<br />
If you're curious to know how he maintains this extraordinary balance between his daytime (legal) and nighttime (poetic) identities, come along to hear John Adams explain it to us on Thursday.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>Contact Person for this event:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<a href="mailto:J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz">Dr Jack Ross</a><br />
English Lecturer<br />
Atrium L2.32<br />
School of English and Media Studies<br />
Pvt Bag 102 904<br />
North Shore Mail Centre<br />
Albany Campus<br />
Phone: 414-0800 x 9506<br />
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=345930">Massey University</a></blockquote>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Next in this series:</b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b>Thursday, September 13, 2012<br />12.00-1.00 pm<br />Study Centre Staff Lounge<br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-3.html">Paula Green</a></span></b></div><br />
<br />Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-37346692702645277172012-06-08T10:50:00.000+12:002013-03-22T11:36:44.695+13:00Writers Read Series (2012): 1<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Writers Read Series 2012:<br />Lunchtime Reading and Discussion -</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><a href="http://jeffreymasson.com/">Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson</a></span></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjitkRt15GbpDThDLNmY0eSzM6w-y1aGoBbLR8eP8QYs_WJIhOOkjPy1mNox2Qx_unB730voLzYFdAWlFktXYu5mjrI4MBCrFw74XzQ2IxYBctJIpuy3NybP9q0YJyRKs8FZejFGmDqkUtZ/s1600/Jeffrey+Masson1.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709149736295394290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjitkRt15GbpDThDLNmY0eSzM6w-y1aGoBbLR8eP8QYs_WJIhOOkjPy1mNox2Qx_unB730voLzYFdAWlFktXYu5mjrI4MBCrFw74XzQ2IxYBctJIpuy3NybP9q0YJyRKs8FZejFGmDqkUtZ/s400/Jeffrey+Masson1.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /></a><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Wednesday, May 2nd<br /><br />12 noon-1.00 pm<br /><br />Staff Lounge<br />Study Centre<br />Albany Campus<br />Massey University</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />All Welcome!</span></b></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
This is the first this year in our Albany <i>Writers Read</i> series, sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies on Massey's Palmerston North, Wellington, and Albany campuses, and co-hosted here in Auckland by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.<br />
<br />
Our speaker, Dr Jeffrey Masson, is a bestselling American writer on human and animal psychology, now resident in New Zealand. His controversial <i>The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory</i> (1984), which caused a furore among orthodox Freudians, has been followed more recently by a number of very successful books on the emotional life of animals.<br />
<br />
Jeff will read from and discuss his forthcoming book <i>Apex Predator</i>, about human beings and orcas (killer whales), followed by a brief question and answer session.<br />
<br />
Light refreshments will be provided.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>More about Jeffrey Masson:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<a href="http://jeffreymasson.com/about.html">Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson</a> is a writer who lives with his family in New Zealand. His wife Leila is a pediatrician and they have two sons: Ilan and Manu. They live on a beach in Auckland with three cats and Benjy the Failed Guide Dog.<br />
<br />
Jeff has a Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Harvard University. He was Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Toronto. While at the university he trained as a Freudian analyst (from 1971-1979) graduating as a full member of the International Psycho-Analytical Association. In 1980 he became Project Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives.<br />
<br />
Given access to Freud's papers in London and the Library of Congress, his research led him to believe that Freud made a mistake when he stopped believing that the source of much human misery lay in sexual abuse. Masson's view was so controversial within traditional analytic circles that he was fired from the archives and had his membership in the international society taken away. Janet Malcolm has written a book about this episode (<i>In the Freud Archives</i> - the subject of a libel suit by Masson) and Jeff has published a series of books critical of Freud, psychoanalysis, psychiatry and therapy.<br />
<br />
Skeptical that humans could be understood (at least by psychologists) Masson turned to animals. In 1995 he published <i>When Elephants Weep</i>, an international best seller, followed by the equally popular <i>Dogs Never Lie About Love</i>.<br />
<br />
Since those two books he has published seven more books about animals, looking in every one at their emotions: About cats he wrote <i>The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats</i>; He looked at fatherhood in the animal world and the lessons to be learned for humans in <i>The Evolution of Fatherhood</i>; writing about the emotional world of farm animals in <i>The Pig Who Sang to the Moon</i> turned Jeff into a vegan.<br />
<br />
Leila, and Jeff are vegans. Manu, Ilan and his rat are vegetarian. Their four cats could not be persuaded to follow either philosophy, and are, alas, carnivores. Benjy could be a vegan, but Jeff feels that he should not force him into this lifestyle, which should be a choice.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>Contact Person for this event:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<a href="mailto:J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz">Dr Jack Ross</a><br />
English Lecturer<br />
Atrium L2.32<br />
School of English and Media Studies<br />
Pvt Bag 102 904<br />
North Shore Mail Centre<br />
Albany Campus<br />
Phone: 414-0800 x 9506<br />
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=345930">Massey University</a></blockquote>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Write-ups & Responses:</b><br />
<br />
<ol>
<li>Jennifer Little, <a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=64F195EC-FE2D-F1D6-EB16-505F56710F57">Massey University News</a> (27 April, 2012):<br />
<br />
<blockquote><b>Animal emotions expert to talk at Albany campus</b><br />
<br />
Best-selling author on human and animal psychology Dr Jeffrey Masson will give a talk at Massey University’s Albany campus on May 2.<br />
<br />
American-born Dr Masson, who lives in Auckland, will read from his forthcoming book <i>Apex Predator</i>, about human beings and orcas, as part of the University’s Writers Read Series.<br />
<br />
His first book on animal emotions, <i>When Elephants Weep</i>, published in 1995, became an international bestseller and was translated into 20 languages. It was followed by the equally popular <i>Dogs Never Lie About Love</i>, and a further seven books about animal emotions and what humans can learn from them, including <i>The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats</i>. Writing about farm animals in <i>The Pig Who Sang to the Moon</i> (2003) prompted him to become a vegan.<br />
<br />
Dr Masson has a PhD in Sanskrit and was a Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Toronto during the 1970s. While there, he trained as a Freudian psychologist, and in 1980 became the Project Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives.<br />
<br />
He was given access to Freud’s papers, and his research led him to believe that Freud made a mistake when he abandoned his seduction theory and stopped believing that the source of much human misery resulted from sexual abuse. His views were so controversial that he was fired from the project and had his membership with the International Psycho-Analytical Association revoked. The saga is the topic of a book called <i>In the Freud Archives</i> by journalist Janet Malcolm – the subject of libel suit by Dr Masson.<br />
<br />
Skeptical that humans could be understood (at least by psychologists), he turned to animals in his research and writing, and once explained the reason for his radical change in direction.<br />
<br />
“I’d written a whole series of books about psychiatry, and nobody bought them. Nobody liked them. Nobody. Psychiatrists hated them, and they were much too abstruse for the general public. It was very hard to make a living, and I thought, ‘As long as I’m not making a living, I may as well write about something I really love: animals’”.<br />
<br />
English lecturer Dr Jack Ross, who is coordinating the event, says Dr Masson has wide appeal because of his unique subject matter. “A lot of people read his books. He has a very interesting intellectual history spanning the disciplines of literature, psychology and the animal kingdom.”<br />
<br />
Dr Masson’s reading is the first of three this year at the Albany campus, hosted by the School of English and Media Studies. Coming up are Family Court judge and poet John Adams (Thursday, August 9), and poet, critic and children’s fiction writer Paula Green (Thursday, September 13).<br />
<br />
All talks are at the Study Centre Staff Lounge, 12-1pm.<br />
<br /></blockquote></li><br />
<br />
<li>Jack Ross, <i><a href="http://mairangibay.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/masson-omania.html">The Imaginary Museum</a></i> (3 May, 2012):<br />
<br />
<blockquote><b>Masson-omania</b><br />
<br />
I guess it's a bit mean of me to put up a post about Jeffrey Masson's talk yesterday at Massey University, because it's too late now to invite any of you to come along.<br />
<br />
You did miss out on a treat, though.<br />
<br />
I first heard him speak in 2000, when he was invited along to one of my colleague Jenny Lawn's classes to talk about Freud. He hadn't been in New Zealand very long, and of course that was how most of us still knew him: as the author of <i>The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory</i> (1984), and as the subject of Janet Malcolm's <i>In the Freud Archives</i> (1984), which he took her to court over.<br />
<br />
It came as a bit of a surprise to hear that he was now working on a book about cats (it would eventually be published as <i>The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey into the Feline Heart</i> (2002)), and had begun to shift his attention from human to animal psychology.<br />
<br />
When I was asked to oversee the Albany campus version of "Writers Read" -- a very successful series which has been running at Palmerston North for seven years and in Wellington for five -- I must admit that one of my first thoughts was that it would be interesting to look up Jeffrey Masson again and to see what he'd been up to over the last decade.<br />
<br />
I do have to say that the book he's working on at present, about the nature of human agression, examined by contrast with other apex predators (there are almost two hundred, apparently, and they including Orcas, African lions, caimans and a whole slew of others), seems to combine the best features of his earlier, more "scholarly" work with his later, more "popular" books on animal emotions.<br />
<br />
As his dog Benjy slowly circumnavigated the room, snuffling and making friends with each member of the audience, Jeff held us spellbound with the various theories that exist already about the roots of human aggression and murderousness. Was it the invention of agriculture which was at fault (as Jared Diamond claims), the domestication of animals, or the growth of organised religion? Whatever it was, something went wrong with us around 10,000 years ago which has been plaguing humanity ever since.<br />
<br />
To some people, of course, such broadscale thinking is by definition a waste of time. What can one hope to achieve by considering such massive and unanswerable questions? It's a dangerous business, to be sure, but then clinging to the nitty-gritty detail of one's particular specialisation doesn't really absolve one of responsiblity for the rest of the world's ills.<br />
<br />
I think everyone in the room yesterday would agree that Jeff Masson did a pretty thorough job of weighing the sources against one another; what's more, he was prepared to suspend judgement where insufficient data was available. It was a rivetting perfomance. A shame a few more of you weren't there. I really am sorry that I didn't have the foresight to warn you in advance that he was coming to Albany.<br />
<br />
You can find out the original advertisement for his talk here. Do feel free to come along to any others in the series that take your fancy</blockquote></li>
</ol><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Next in this series:</b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b>Thursday, August 9, 2012<br />12.00-1.00 pm<br />Study Centre Staff Lounge<br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-2.html">John Adams</a></span></b></div><br />
<br />Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-84176018489012799952012-06-07T10:48:00.000+12:002013-03-01T10:15:42.602+13:00Writers Read Series (2011): 2<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Writers Read Series 2011:<br />Lunchtime Reading and Discussion -</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/weddeian.html">Ian Wedde</a></span></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvA9Ms0a7I-aMKnMFKvY0y6VFbDvv62MGEERxtOVDNFh35zJqFuVvpVfzjfvQwNYiEKuCO7fuZ_MG73cJe8jHgDTdD3SQX_h8Twkx09NIF8Jnl2U95vxjSoRAQd26XvVvaMq1BN4-n029S/s1600/ian+wedde.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600377160751979170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvA9Ms0a7I-aMKnMFKvY0y6VFbDvv62MGEERxtOVDNFh35zJqFuVvpVfzjfvQwNYiEKuCO7fuZ_MG73cJe8jHgDTdD3SQX_h8Twkx09NIF8Jnl2U95vxjSoRAQd26XvVvaMq1BN4-n029S/s400/ian+wedde.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 213px;" /></a><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Thursday, September 15th<br /><br />12 noon-1.00 pm<br /><br />Staff Common Room<br />Study Centre<br />Albany Campus<br />Massey University</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />All Welcome!</span></b></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
This will be the second in our ongoing Albany <i>Writers Read</i> series, sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies on Massey's Palmerston North, Wellington, and Albany campuses, and co-hosted here in Auckland by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.<br />
<br />
Our speaker, Ian Wedde, is one of New Zealand's most celebrated poets, novelists and cultural critics. He has just been appointed the National Library's New Zealand Poet Laureate for the period 2011-2013. Ian will read from and discuss his recent creative work, followed by a brief question and answer session.<br />
<br />
Light refreshments will be provided.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>More about Ian Wedde:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
Ian Wedde's publications to date include fourteen poetry collections, five novels, and numerous monographs and essay collections. His influential 1985 <i>Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse</i> (co-edited with Harvey McQueen) was followed by <i>The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry</i> (1989), co-edited with Harvey McQueen and Miriama Evans.<br />
<br />
He won the 1977 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction for <i>Dick Seddon's Great Dive</i>; the 1978 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry for <i>Spells for Coming Out</i>; the 2001 Montana Award for Illustrative Arts for <i>Ralph Hotere: Black Light</i>; the 2005 Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship in Menton, France; and a 2006 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award. He was also the 2009 Writer in Residence at The University of Auckland.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>Contact Person for this event:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<a href="mailto:J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz">Dr Jack Ross</a><br />
English Lecturer<br />
Atrium L2.32<br />
School of English and Media Studies<br />
Pvt Bag 102 904<br />
North Shore Mail Centre<br />
Albany Campus<br />
Phone: 414-0800 x 9506<br />
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=345930">Massey University</a></blockquote>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Write-ups & Responses:</b><br />
<br />
<ol>
<li>Jennifer Little, <i>Massey University News Release</i> (5 September, 2011):<br />
<br />
<blockquote><b>Poet Laureate Ian Wedde to talk at Massey</b><br />
<br />
The art of shifting between poetry, fiction and essay forms, and how to decide which best suits an idea, are among topics distinguished poet, author, commentator and critic Ian Wedde will touch on in a talk at Massey’s Albany campus next week.<br />
<br />
The free lunchtime public talk on September 15 is one of Mr Wedde’s first in his new role as Poet Laureate (2011-2013), announced last month, and a unique chance for readers, writers and poetry lovers to hear him as guest in the University’s Writers Read Series, run by the School of English and Media Studies.<br />
<br />
As the new public face of poetry, he will read from and talk about some of his new work, including his latest novel <i>The Catastrophe</i> (Victoria University Press), and an expansion of his essay, <i>The Grass-Catcher</i>, winner of last year’s Landfall essay competition, as well as his poetic work-in-progress <i>Shadow Stands Up</i>, which can be viewed on the New Zealand Poet Laureate blog.<br />
<br />
Mr Wedde, a prolific and multi award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and art history, and former head of art and visual culture at Te Papa museum, is the third New Zealand Poet Laureate since the award was established in 2007 to succeed the Te Mata Poet Laureate Award. The biennial award was held first by Michele Leggott, then Cilla McQueen.<br />
<br />
Acclaimed for his literary achievements across various genres and for the depth and breadth of his aesthetic and intellectual explorations, he will share his thoughts on adapting material to different forms and perspectives. “It’s a fairly intuitive process. I’ll be thinking aloud to some extent about why you would write poetry about something and how this might become an essay, and where these overlap.”<br />
<br />
His autobiographical essay <i>The Grass-Catcher</i>, “is about what we mean by ‘home’, in the biggest sense,” he says. It’s something I’ve thought about for a while, and it keeps cropping up as a subtext in a lot of my writing.”<br />
<br />
The title refers to the canvas part of an old-fashioned, non-motorised lawnmower of his childhood. He recalls how he saw the catcher, which was hung at the back of the garage, as having two distinct lives; that of just a grass-catcher, and also its appearance and shape as something “weird”, evoking the strangeness of ordinary objects when they are seen in a different light.<br />
<br />
His publications include fourteen collections of poetry, six novels, two collections of essays, a monograph on the artist Bill Culbert, several art catalogues, and numerous contributions to other books. He won the 1977 Book Award for Fiction for his first novel, <i>Dick Seddon’s Great Dive</i>, and the 1978 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry for <i>Spells for Coming Out</i>. <i>Ralph Hotere: Black Light</i>, which he edited, won the Illustrative Arts section of the 2001 Montana New Zealand book awards. <br />
<br />
The New Zealand Poet Laureate receives $80,000 over the two-year tenure, and is supported by the National Library to define the role in their own individual way, while fulfilling the responsibilities of the office to produce work and to publicly advocate for and present poetry.<br />
<br />
Read Mr Wedde’s blog and work-in-progress in the National Library’s website for the Poet Laureate: <a href="http://nzpoetlaureate.natlib.govt.nz/">nzpoetlaureate.natlib.govt.nz</a><br />
<br />
<b>Ian Wedde in Writers Read Series; 12pm, Thursday 15 September; Massey Albany, Study Centre Staff Lounge</b>.</blockquote></li><br />
<br />
</ol><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Next in this series:</b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b>Wednesday, May 2, 2012<br />12.00-1.00 pm<br />Study Centre Staff Lounge<br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-1.html">Jeffrey Masson</a></span></b>
</div><br />
<br />Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-68971717324967999912012-06-06T10:44:00.000+12:002013-03-01T10:15:27.606+13:00Writers Read Series (2011): 1<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Writers Read Series 2011:<br />Lunchtime Reading and Discussion -</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/kennedyanne.html">Anne Kennedy</a></span></b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoL9NWQJ1neVizU4_HHkC_2Shi_h_udlX02ozqzs6VcamVVYwPYFNmnQ6cD-8iPzjJcCzomk3ZyQQgNRJWizDCho4avESPsL1kZssR5zk7SLwcHSS-YO5WQ02Yo1HRDh-0n44Qk5QBuony/s1600/kennedy_anne.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600061082387377634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoL9NWQJ1neVizU4_HHkC_2Shi_h_udlX02ozqzs6VcamVVYwPYFNmnQ6cD-8iPzjJcCzomk3ZyQQgNRJWizDCho4avESPsL1kZssR5zk7SLwcHSS-YO5WQ02Yo1HRDh-0n44Qk5QBuony/s400/kennedy_anne.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 136px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 78%;">[Photograph: Robert Sullivan]</span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Wednesday, May 11th<br /><br />12 noon-1.00 pm<br /><br />Staff Lounge<br />Study Centre<br />Albany Campus<br />Massey University</span><br /><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br />All Welcome!</span></b></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
Come and hear the first in our Albany <i>Writers Read</i> series, sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies on all three Massey campuses: Wellington, Palmerston North and Auckland.<br />
<br />
Our first speaker, Anne Kennedy, is an award-winning poet, novelist and screenwriter. Her sequence <i><a href="http://web.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/aup/book/sing-song.cfm">Sing-song</a></i> (AUP, 2003) was named Poetry Book of the Year at the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and its successor <i><a href="http://web.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/aup/book/the-time-of-the-giants.cfm">The Time of the Giants</a></i> (AUP, 2005) was shortlisted for the same award. She will read from and discuss her recent creative work, followed by a brief question and answer session.<br />
<br />
Light refreshments will be provided by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>More about Anne Kennedy:</b><br />
<blockquote>
Anne's books to date include <i>100 Traditional Smiles </i>(Victoria University Press, 1988), <i>Musica Ficta </i>(University of Queensland Press / AUP, 1993), and <i>A Boy and His Uncle </i>(Picador, 1998). She won the 1985 BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award, has won the ICI Award, and was the 1995 Writer in Residence at The University of Auckland.<br />
<br />
Anne's film scripts include <i>Crush</i> (1992) and <i>Monkey's Mask</i> (2001), based on Dorothy Porter's verse novel. She was a finalist for Best Adapted Screenplay in the Australian FCCA Film Awards 2002 and the Australian Film Institute Awards. Her TV adaptation of her own short story "Jewel's Darl" was directed by Peter Wells and starred Georgina Beyer.<br />
<br />
Anne is married to poet, librettist and children's writer Robert Sullivan.</blockquote>
<br />
<b>Contact Person for this event:</b><br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<a href="mailto:J.R.Ross@massey.ac.nz">Dr Jack Ross</a><br />
English Lecturer<br />
Atrium L2.32<br />
School of English and Media Studies<br />
Pvt Bag 102 904<br />
North Shore Mail Centre<br />
Albany Campus<br />
Phone: 414-0800 x 9506<br />
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=345930">Massey University</a></blockquote>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>__________________________________________</b></div>
<br />
<b>Next in this series:</b><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b>Thursday, September 15, 2011<br />12.00-1.00 pm<br />Study Centre Staff Lounge<br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-2.html">Ian Wedde</a></span></b></div><br />
<br />Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538877968296365493.post-51824802931311742292012-06-02T10:39:00.000+12:002015-05-15T12:48:08.605+12:00Welcome<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoFS61on8IwfXPm_mkiH1yfftA1TBEc1pvk0i69ntNyYfcwEXK9ZW6vErZoUl3DFqIu80hHuImY-xkCDmtSGuvDxwYGQ97jbrO8-Cy_K-l82Kigz15k3Tn1rbs1b-yCbHwRGAQ_gf3O6M/s1600/campus+map.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoFS61on8IwfXPm_mkiH1yfftA1TBEc1pvk0i69ntNyYfcwEXK9ZW6vErZoUl3DFqIu80hHuImY-xkCDmtSGuvDxwYGQ97jbrO8-Cy_K-l82Kigz15k3Tn1rbs1b-yCbHwRGAQ_gf3O6M/s400/campus+map.JPG" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[<a href="http://www.philosophy.school.nz/location-albany">Albany Campus Map</a>]</span>
<br />
<b><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 130%;">to the</span></b><br />
<br />
<h1>
<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-english-media-studies/about/events/writers-read.cfm">Arts Out Loud Series</a></h1>
<br /></div>
<br />
<blockquote>
Join us for our annual series of readings, co-sponsored by the School of English and Media Studies, Palmerston North City Library, and Office of the Campus Registrar, Wellington, and held at three venues — the Palmerston North City Library, and on the Albany and Wellington Massey campuses.<br />
<br />
Over the past few years, we've featured some of New Zealand’s best writers, include Bill Manhire, Elizabeth Knox, Owen Marshall, Fiona Farrell, C. K. Stead, Ian Wedde, and Vincent O’Sullivan.<br />
<br />
All Albany readings (unless otherwise noted) are held at lunchtime in the Theatre Lab:<br />
[<a href="http://contact.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms//About%20Massey/contact-us/maps/AK%20East%20Precinct.pdf">Albany Campus map</a>].<br />
<br />
All Palmerston North readings start at 6pm in the Palmerston North City Library. A Q & A session will follow the reading.<br />
<br />
All Wellington readings start at 6pm in Theatre Laboratory (5D14) Wallace Street, Entrance A, Wellington Campus, Massey University. Q & A and reception follow the reading:<br />
[<a href="http://contact.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms//About%20Massey/contact-us/maps/WL.pdf">Wellington Campus map</a>].<br />
<br />
All events are free and open to the public.</blockquote>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wuOEcv4Su09WI5OQ2QGWkSlzz0VdAQlL2-pjOnISnAArdq_TvLVheNQ5JLKKsQOoK9_Deu0k8OHRtVfKoH3VeDjqbrHFA4kDez5GKuuey0G_ahM61q2tJZiAqEgYJhBjyRA86Xjcklk/s1600/albany-snapshot.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wuOEcv4Su09WI5OQ2QGWkSlzz0VdAQlL2-pjOnISnAArdq_TvLVheNQ5JLKKsQOoK9_Deu0k8OHRtVfKoH3VeDjqbrHFA4kDez5GKuuey0G_ahM61q2tJZiAqEgYJhBjyRA86Xjcklk/s320/albany-snapshot.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">[<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms/About%20Massey/contact-us/maps/Albany%20Campus%20Map%202013.pdf">Albany Parking and Transport</a>]</span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;">•</span></b>
<br />
<br />
<h1>
Writers Read Series 2015</h1>
<br /></div>
<br />
<h3>
Albany Series</h3>
<h6>
Lunchtime<br />
Theatre Lab</h6>
<ol><br />
<li>Wednesday 20 May - <a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2015/05/arts-out-loud-series-2015-1.html">Dr Matthew Harris</a>: From Page to Screen (chaired by Jack Ross)</li>
<br />
</ol>
<br />
<h3>
Palmerston North Series</h3>
<h6>
6 pm<br />
Palmerston North City Library</h6>
<ol><br />
<li>Friday 20 March - Manawatu: Writing In/Writing Of Panel: Fiona McKergow, Vivienne Plumb, Geoffrey Watson, Johanna Aitchison (chaired by Leononel Alvarado)</li>
<br />
<li>Friday 17 April - <a href="http://mairangibay.blogspot.co.nz/2015/04/off-page-writers-series-17415.html">Short Fiction Panel</a>: Owen Marshall, Tracey Slaughter, Jaspreet Singh (chaired by Jack Ross)</li>
<br />
<li>Saturday 18 April - Masterclass on Short Fiction with Owen Marshall</li>
<br />
<li>Friday 22 May - Poetry Panel: Robert Sullivan, Lisa Samuels, Sarah Barnett (chaired by Bryan Walpert)</li>
<br />
<li>Saturday 23 May - Masterclass on Poetry with Robert Sullivan</li>
<br />
<li>Friday 21 August - Writing for the Stage Panel: Stuart Hoar, Jo Randerson, Gary Henderson (chaired by Angie Farrow)</li>
<br />
<li>Friday 18 September - Historical Fiction Panel: Paula Morris, Mary McCallum, Graeme Lay (chaired by Thom Conroy)</li>
<br />
</ol>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;">•</span></b>
<br />
<br />
<h1>
Writers Read Series 2014</h1>
<br /></div>
<br />
<h3>
Albany Series</h3>
<h6>
12 noon<br /></h6>
<ol><br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2014-1.html">Thom Conroy & Alice Miller</a> Friday 3 October</li>
<br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2014-2.html">Poetry NZ Launch</a> Friday 31 October / Monday 1 December (Wellington)</li>
<br />
</ol>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;">•</span></b>
<br />
<br />
<h1>
Writers Read Series 2013</h1>
<br /></div>
<br />
<h3>
Albany Series</h3>
<h6>
12 noon<br />All - except C. K. Stead (who will speak in the Round Room, Atrium Building) - to be held in the Study Centre Staff Lounge</h6>
<ol><br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-1.html">C. K. Stead</a> Wednesday 27 March</li>
<br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-2.html">Sue Orr</a> Wednesday 1 May</li>
<br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/writers-read-series-2013-3.html">Robert Sullivan</a> Wednesday 7 August</li>
<br />
</ol>
<h3>
Palmerston North Series</h3>
<h6>
6 pm<br />
Palmerston North City Library</h6>
<ol><br />
<li>Helen Lehndorf (Visiting Artist) Wednesday 24 April</li>
<br />
<li>Emily Perkins Friday 17 May</li>
<br />
<li>Anna Jackson Friday 16 August (National Poetry Day)</li>
<br />
<li>Writing Kapiti Panel:
Hamish Clayton,<br />
Laurence Patchett, Thom Conroy
Wednesday 11 September</li>
<br />
</ol>
<h3>
Wellington Series</h3>
<h6>
12 noon / 6 pm<br />
Theatre Laboratory (5D14) Wallace Street, Entrance A<br />
Wellington Campus, Massey University</h6>
<ol><br />
<li>Helen Lehndorf (Visiting Artist) Wednesday 17 April (12-1)</li>
<br />
<li>Jo Randerson Wednesday 15 May (12-1)</li>
<br />
<li>Writing Kapiti Panel: Hamish Clayton,<br />
Laurence Patchett, Thom Conroy Thursday 12 September (6 pm)</li>
<br />
<li>Student Event Wednesday 16 October (6 pm)</li>
<br />
</ol>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;">•</span></b>
<br />
<br />
<h1>
Writers Read Series 2012</h1>
<br /></div>
<br />
<h3>
Albany Series</h3>
<h6>
12 noon<br />Study Centre Staff Lounge</h6>
<ol><br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-1.html">Jeffrey Masson</a> Wednesday 2 May</li>
<br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-2.html">John Adams</a> Thursday 9 August</li>
<br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2012-3.html">Paula Green</a> Thursday 13 September</li>
<br />
</ol>
<h3>
Palmerston North Series</h3>
<h6>
7 pm<br />
Palmerston North City Library</h6>
<ol><br />
<li><a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/features/arts-on-friday/6779872/Dedicated-to-the-write-path">Johanna Aitchison</a> (Visiting Artist) Friday 27 April</li>
<br />
<li><a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/the-wellingtonian/6957156/Duncan-Sarkies-to-speak-at-Massey">Duncan Sarkies</a> Friday 25 May</li>
<br />
<li><a href="http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2012/writers-read-series-rhian-gallagher/palmerston-north">Rhian Gallagher</a> Friday 27 July (National Poetry Day)</li>
<br />
<li>Laurence Fearnley Friday 14 Sept</li>
<br />
</ol>
<h3>
Wellington Series</h3>
<h6>
6 pm<br />
Theatre Laboratory (5D14) Wallace Street, Entrance A<br />
Wellington Campus, Massey University</h6>
<ol><br />
<li>Duncan Sarkies Thursday 24 May</li>
<br />
<li>Rhian Gallagher Thursday 26 July</li>
<br />
<li>Laurence Fearnley Thursday 13 Sept </li>
<br />
</ol>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 130%;">•</span></b>
<br />
<br />
<h1>
Writers Read Series 2011</h1>
<br /></div>
<br />
<h3>
Albany Series</h3>
<h6>
12 noon<br />Study Centre Staff Lounge</h6>
<ol><br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-1.html">Anne Kennedy</a>
Wednesday 11 May</li>
<br />
<li><a href="http://albanywritersread.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/writers-read-series-2011-2.html">Ian Wedde</a> Thursday 15 September</li>
</ol>
<br />
<h3>
Palmerston North Series</h3>
<h6>
7 pm<br />
Palmerston North City Library</h6>
<ol><br />
<li>Lynn Davidson (Visiting Artist) Friday 27 May</li>
<br />
<li>Brian Turner Friday 22 July (National Poetry Day)</li>
<br />
<li>Lloyd Jones Friday 19 August</li>
<br />
<li>Kate de Goldi Friday 30 September</li>
<br />
</ol>
<h3>
Wellington Series</h3>
<h6>
6 pm<br />
Theatrette (10A02) Museum Building<br />
Wellington Campus, Massey University</h6>
<ol><br />
<li>Three Poets: Lynn Davidson, Lynn<br />
Jenner & Selina Tusitala Marsh Thursday 24 May</li>
<br />
<li>Kate de Goldi Thursday 29 September</li>
<br />
</ol>
<br />
<div align="center">
<br />
<b><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;">•</span></b><br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIp4DvB35d8Pi3vd9ml-q_mUvcO-zuIkDGiDv2vH2eSQEEkZdkmBqk6PzclFLnpVTC_904zYBM0qpjYWpahSStf6I2XzfIfzTvNYQpiA7SLk8bOTEZOh8f0CwNriSCDXHYrehHFe4YBE/s1600/Karl+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIp4DvB35d8Pi3vd9ml-q_mUvcO-zuIkDGiDv2vH2eSQEEkZdkmBqk6PzclFLnpVTC_904zYBM0qpjYWpahSStf6I2XzfIfzTvNYQpiA7SLk8bOTEZOh8f0CwNriSCDXHYrehHFe4YBE/s320/Karl+1.JPG" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Jack Ross & C. K. Stead (27/3/13)<br />
[photograph: Jennifer Little]</span></div><br />
<br />Dr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01077200107415470747noreply@blogger.com0