Post Prandial Poetry
Allen Curnow reads at Going West in 2001, introduced by Glenn Colquhoun who at the time was an emerging poet who had just received his first accolade. Colquhoun describes Curnow as holding within his ...
24 Sep 202018min
Before I Went Blind
In this pithy and provocative address from Going West 2005, award winning novelist, writer of Tarzan Presley, essayist and renowned museum practitioner Nigel Cox reflects on a New Zealand seen through...
17 Sep 202031min
Reckoning with Women, Barbara Brookes
Barbara Brookes gives voice to a hidden history we’ve never read about. In this session from Going West 2016, she shares the story of her ground-breaking book in conversation with Judith Pringle.Her b...
10 Sep 202044min
Off the Rails - the last literary locomotive
At Going West 2005, Television presenter and talk-back host Marcus Lush delivers a witty account of his life-long love affair with rail, his relationship with the train-spotting fraternity, and his en...
3 Sep 202021min
The Game of our Lives
In her book The Infinite Game: how to live well together, psychology professor and activist Dr Niki Harré asks us to imagine our world anew. What if we are all part of a different type of game entirel...
27 Aug 202039min
Love, blood and betrayal
Award winning writer Greg McGee, best known for his play Foreskin’s Lament, came to Going West in 2015 to talk on writing, rugby, toxic masculinity, female pseudonyms, life in Italy and his novel The ...
25 Aug 202052min
Working Class Heroes
Working class heroes and poets Serie Barford and Glenn Colquhoun celebrate their working class roots as part of the Going West Oblivion Express as it steams to Helensville Station. Passengers along fo...
20 Aug 202035min
Rewi Alley: Chinese Revolutionary
Rewi Alley, a quiet bloke from Canterbury, a dabbler in poetry, a farmer, fireman and soldier went "to go and have a look at China" and ended up becoming the architect of one of the world's greatest l...
18 Aug 202043min
