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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Historian Michael King reflects and recollects on what it means to be a White Native of New Zealand, of being a Pākehā now.
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Stephanie Johnson performs a literary satire about neoliberalism, including her parody caricature of tauiwi, the ‘National Party Poet Laureate’ Amanda Tauiwi Reinhardt Carlton.
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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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Russell Brown and Colin Hogg discuss Colin’s book The High Road, an exploration of legal marijuana culture in America, and its implications for Aotearoa.
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Rod Oram like you’ve never heard him before, orating a trans-historical soundscape encapsulating the ecological history of Tāmaki Makaurau.
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Paula Morris, Sir Graeme Douglas Orator, responds to the 2018 Going West theme and puts forward a bold argument for valuing the craft of writing over ideas.
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Four writers give creative responses to selected items within Auckland Museum’s documentary heritage collection.
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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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