In her generous new work of creative scholarship, Wild Honey, poet and anthologist Paula Green surveys New Zealand’s women poets, from the first published to the most recent bright lights. In conversation with poets Kiri Piahana-Wong and Anne Kennedy, Paula walks us through the figurative house she has created to discuss and assess the many important women who have contributed to New Zealand’s poetic canon.

***** Announcement: due to illness, Sue Wootton is unable able to join us. Fortunately the wonderful Anne Kennedy is able to join Paula Green and Kiri Piahana-Wong ****

Paula Green is a poet, blogger (Poetry Shelf) and anthologist. In 2017, she was admitted to the New Zealand Order of Merit for Services to Poetry and Literature and received the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry. She has two new poetry collections:

Kiri Piahana-Wong is a poet and editor, and is the publisher at Anahera Press. Her first poetry collection, Night Swimming, was released in 2013; a second book, Tidelines, is due out next year.

Anne Kennedy is a fiction writer, poet, screenplay editor and teacher. Moth Hour is just out from AUP. In 2018, The Ice Shelf was published by VUP. Awards and residencies include NZ Post Book Award for Poetry, University of Iowa International Writers' Program Fall Residency (2017), and IIML Writers' Residency (2016).

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