Whakaruru-taha

Recently, I had the great pleasure of being part of a launch event for A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha, with the inimitable Witi Ihimaera, Michelle Elvy, Tina Makereti, Pip Adam, Gregory O’Brien, Ya-Wen Ho, Noa Noa von Bassewitz, Sudha Rao, Whiti Hereaka, Emma Barnes and Nicola Leggatt from Massey University Press. Many thanks to the Newtown Library for hosting.

More about the anthology below (source: Wellington City Library website). You can listen to Part 1 of the event via a recording on Access Radio. I’ll add Part 2 when it’s available.

“A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha is a major anthology of new writing, featuring some of Aotearoa’s most eminent writers, artists and thinkers considering what our shared future might hold. The book is a series of rich conversations, just a few of the hot button topics the authors look at include: decolonisation, indigeneity and climate change. A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha is arranged according to the principles of whaikōrero.”A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha is a major anthology of new writing, featuring some of Aotearoa’s most eminent writers, artists and thinkers considering what our shared future might hold. The book is a series of rich conversations, just a few of the hot button topics the authors look at include: decolonisation, indigeneity and climate change. A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha is arranged according to the principles of whaikōrero.

The anthology, co-edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy, embraces a wide spectrum of voices and a multiplicity of views for readers to consider. The writers included also hail from a wide variety of artistic and professional practices, including: poets, anthropologists, fiction writers, architects and academics.”

The lovely Constance Talbot made a video of me reading (reproduced with Constance’s permission):