Keri Hulme: BAIT
At the 1997 Going West Festival, author Keri Hulme made a rare public appearance to discuss and read two excerpts from her unpublished novel BAIT, a story of “death and fishing”.Having New Zealand’s f...
19 Jun 202239min
Molten Clefts of Magma
Beloved west Auckland poet Serie Barford was nominated in the NZ Book Awards for Sleeping With Stones, traversing oceans of feeling, expressing the tragic loss of her lover. Michael Steven’s third poe...
12 Jun 202223min
Contested Spaces
Lucy Mackintosh, Richard Shaw and Pita Turei discuss stories of Taranaki and Tāmaki Makaurau, both ancient and personal, with journalist Tania Page. Lucy’s Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki M...
5 Jun 202252min
Forward Into the World of Light
Casting lines out into Moana Pasifika and pulling words back to West Auckland, Tongan, Samoan and Pālagi poet Karlo Mila reads from her book The Goddess Muscle and Fijian poet Daren Kamali performs hi...
29 Mai 202236min
Robin Hyde’s Auckland: an audiovisual essay.
A deep dive into the life of Robin Hyde, aka Iris Wilkinson, exploring her contribution to New Zealand literature, her travels, motherhood and her life in Auckland, including her relationships, homes,...
22 Mai 202225min
Maurice Shadbolt
From Going West’s second year in 1997, master storyteller Maurice Shadbolt, celebrates the near forgotten lives from New Zealand’s history, and talks of his path to writing history to life, particular...
4 Apr 202116min
Words and Melody
The magic of weaving poetry and music together is on show in this Going West session from 2017. Paula Green, poet, anthologist, reviewer and children’s author, with her newly minted honours and awards...
28 Mar 202135min
Women Then, Women Now | Wāhine o Mua, Wāhine o Nāianei
Women in Aotearoa New Zealand. Five leading women meet in the 125th year since the 1893 granting of female suffrage in New Zealand. Feminists Fiona Kidman, Sandra Coney, Lizzie Marvelly, and Golriz G...
21 Mar 202155min
