Written sounds and spoken language - a discussion on the earliest Māori engagement with writing by Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins
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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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Award winning novelist and creator of Tarzan Presley Nigel Cox reflects on what he sees in New Zealand after 5 years away in Berlin.
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In the first such history of its kind, Professor of History at Otago University Barbara Brookes, shares the story of her ground-breaking book A History of New Zealand Women, in conversation with Judith Pringle.
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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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Niki Harré and the Infinite Game: an invitation to live differently
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Greg McGee on his epic novel The Antipodeans, in conversation with journalist David Larsen
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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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Author Elspeth Sandys talks to Matt Nippert about the search for her cousin, Cultural Revolutionary Rewi Alley.
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For the first time in 150 years, Geoff Norman re-imagines and revises Buller’s Birds of New Zealand, with the exquisitely reproduced water-colours by JG Keulemans, the most renowned ornithological artist of the 19th century.
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This session brings together poet, writer, actor and playwright Peter Bland and poet, blogger, and anthologist Paula Green to traverse the world of childhood, children’s poetry and writing with warmth, wit and word-play.
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Marilyn Waring on the theme of Tracking the Vernacular at the Going West Books and Writers Festival 2002 Gala Night opening.
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In her prizewinning novel Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings Tina Makereti confronts the complexities of cultural heritage, the past and the present, and Moriori, Māori and Pākehā identity.
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Roger Shepherd in conversation with John Campbell discussing Roger’s memoir In Love With These Times: My Life With Flying Nun Records
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Dame Anne Salmond and Moana Maniapoto take to the Going West stage for a kōrero on Salmond’s landmark publication Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds.
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Phillip Mann, described as an Ecological Science Fiction writer, talks writing and ecology and of being absorbed in the landscape
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In her book What Lies Beneath, novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter and playwright Elspeth Sandys shares her voyage into memoir and its complex relationship with memory.
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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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Fiona Kidman in conversation with Karyn Hay about Albert Black the ‘Milk-Bar Murderer’.
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Jesse Mulligan interviews Steve Braunias about his book, The Man Who Ate Lincoln Road, exploring the fast-food joints on New Zealand’s second busiest road.
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