Poets Serie Barford and Michael Steven deliver their powerful verses at a live Going West event – Shifted Ground – in Titirangi, April 2022.
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Daren Kamali and Karlo Mila live at the Going West gala, 2021.
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Allen Curnow reads at Going West in 2001, introduced by Glenn Colquhoun. This was Allen Curnow’s last public performance.
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On Going West’s final steam train excursion, television and radio presenter Marcus Lush delivers a witty account of his life-long love affair with rail.
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Poets Serie Barford and Glenn Colquhoun celebrate their working class roots as part of a train journey west called the Oblivion Express.
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Witi Ihimaera reads from his memoir Native Son, with sonic accompaniment by the multi-instrumentalist Kingsley Spargo.
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Bill Manhire reads a selection of classic New Zealand poems, with accompaniment by jazz ensemble Norman Meehan, Hannah Griffin and Blair Latham
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In 2014 Anne Kennedy was selected as the Going West Books and Writers Festival Curnow Reader, a gala night honour bestowed each year on a poet of prominence. Kennedy reads from her book The Darling North, which won the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Award for poetry.
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Maurice Gee reads from his novel Going West, as he stands on the platform of Henderson Station, the very spot which inspired the novel in 1992.
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Musical collaborators Moana Maniapoto and Paddy Free give a soaring and powerful multimedia performance of contemporary songs in te reo Māori, with lyrics by Scotty Morrison.
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As New Zealand poet laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh performs recent works including her Commonwealth speech performed for the Queen at Westminster Abbey.
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Robert Sullivan, Bernard Makoare and Ngāhuia Te Awekotuku discuss and perform taonga pūoro, oral and written Maori literature at the very first session of the Going West in 1996.
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