Tekoteko Cradled in Loving Arms
Acclaimed New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera launched his memoir Native Son at Going West in 2019. He gave a powerful and emotional reading from the book, with sonic accompaniment by the multi-instrumen...
16 Heinä 202011min
Fiona Kidman and This Mortal Boy
Dame Fiona Kidman’s award winning novel This Mortal Boy, about the life and death of the real life ‘jukebox killer’ 18 year old Albert (Paddy) Black, has been described as remarkable and compelling. I...
14 Heinä 202046min
The Man Who Ate Lincoln Road
Journalist, media host and food critic Jesse Mulligan interviews journalist, literary editor and anti-food-snobbery advocate Steve Braunias about his book, The Man Who Ate Lincoln Road. In 2016, Braun...
12 Heinä 202044min
Small Holes in the Silence
The poems performed, in order, are:Rain by Hone Tuwhare Warehouse Curtains by Bill ManhireWild Iron by Allen Curnow - By kind permission of Tim CurnowBlue Rain by Alistair Campbell - Copyright © the E...
9 Heinä 202059min
Reflections and Recollections of a White Native
In 1999 historian Michael King updated his earlier book Being Pākehā (1985) with a new publication - Being Pākehā Now: Reflections and Recollections of a White Native. No one had written anything lik...
7 Heinä 20201h 5min
Stephanie Johnson Holding the Line
Going West’s Sir Graeme Douglas Orator in 2015 was writer Stephanie Johnson. Addressing the festival theme, Holding the Line, Stephanie delivered a hilarious and biting satire of neoliberalism in New ...
5 Heinä 202029min
The poetry of Anne Kennedy
In 2014 Anne Kennedy was selected as the Going West Books and Writers Festival Curnow Reader, a gala night honour bestowed each year on a poet of prominence. Anne speaks of what poet Allen Curnow’s wo...
2 Heinä 202024min
Maurice Gee reads from Going West
This recording is from the second Going West Festival in 1997, but in some ways it is where it all began. What co-founder Murray Grey envisioned, and pitched to fellow founders Naomi McCleary and Bob ...
30 Kesä 202010min
