Bringing words to the mountain: the Ruapehu Writers Festival
February 26th, 2016 | by Booknotes Administrator
Tickets are on sale now for the country’s newest, and quirkiest, writers festival, to be held in Ōhakune in March. …
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‘Wellington poetry: now and then’ hosted by VUW for Wellington’s 150 Anniversary as a capital city
July 15th, 2015 | by Booknotes Administrator
Via Poetry Shelf Victoria University is running on Saturday 25th July at 1pm to celebrate Wellington’s 150th anniversary of becoming …
Going West Festival Celebrates Two Decades with Stellar Line-Up
July 9th, 2015 | by Booknotes Administrator
The Going West Books and Writers Festival celebrates 20 years with a line-up of outstanding home-grown authors, playwrights and songwriters …
Questions of travel, life and love, answers from the imagination: new line-up for Writers on Mondays
July 6th, 2015 | by Booknotes Administrator
Writers on Mondays 2015 brings together a line-up of exciting new and established talents to showcase what’s happening in the …
Half Dark: Poems from Harry Ricketts’s new collection
March 5th, 2015 | by Booknotes Administrator
Harry Ricketts’s latest book of poems, Half Dark (Victoria University Press, 2015), ‘addresses the people and places that fill a …
Simmering Summer Reads: Keep Calm and Carry on Reading
January 22nd, 2015 | by Booknotes Administrator
Catherine Robertson shares her top ten Simmering Summer Reads.
Monty Soutar: Breaking up the Maori Contingent
September 4th, 2014 | by Booknotes Administrator
To mark the New Zealand Book Council/Victoria University of Wellington World War One Book Club panel events, we share a …
‘Things I’d like to tell you’ – reading and writing during war
September 2nd, 2014 | by Booknotes Administrator
Kate Hunter looks at the ways writing and reading were essential to staying connected to home during World War One.
Event 3: Great books about the Great War reading list
August 28th, 2014 | by Booknotes Administrator
Peruse our reading list for Event 3 – Great books about the Great War, and add your own reading recommendations.
Jane Tolerton: The Blood and the Bones
August 28th, 2014 | by Booknotes Administrator
Jane Tolerton considers her experience capturing the oral histories of New Zealand World War One veterans and why it is a crucial legacy.
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