Words on Monday

New Zealand at Kings Place

New Worlds: New Perspectives

Hall One, 26 March 2012, 7pm

Fleur Adcock

Three poets present new perspectives of New Zealand, illustrating developments and changes in its relationship with Britain and its place in the new Pacific.

Poets from three generations of New Zealand writing will include Fleur Adcock, based for much of her life in London and winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry;

Bill Manhire

Bill Manhire, one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed poets and teachers of creative writing;

Tusiata Avia

and Tusiata Avia, an exciting young performance poet of Samoan heritage who will present poems from her solo show Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, poems which draw on a Samoan oral tradition and on Tusiata’s own New Zealand urban background.