FORTHCOMING EVENTS AT CENTRE FOR NZ STUDIES IN LONDON

Centre Director Ian Conrich advises:

SESSION 100

Thursday 11 June 2009

Centre for New Zealand Studies,

Rm. 330, North Block, Senate House,

Malet St., London WC16.30-8.00

Stephanie Johnson
This very special event - the Centre's 100th session in a little more than 2 years - is limited to 35 seats and we advise that if you wish to attend that you email your reservation to Tory Straker at <strakervictoria@hotmail.com>. The event is free and will be followed by a wine reception. Early booking is recommended.

Acclaimed writer Stephanie Johnson will be with us to read from and discuss her work. She is the author of The Bleeding Ballerina (1987), The Glass Whittler (1989), Crimes of Neglect (1992), All the Tenderness Left in the World (1993), The Heart's Wild Surf (1996), The Whistler (1999), Belief (2000), The Shag Incident (2002, winner of the Deutz Medal for Fiction in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003), Moody Bitch (2003), Music From a Distant Room (2004), Drowned Sprat and Other Stories (2005), John Tomb's Head (2006), and Swimmers' Rope (2008).

She won the Bruce Mason Playwrights' Award in 1986 and was the recipient of the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship in 2000.

Session 101

Wednesday 17 June 2009

Centre for New Zealand Studies,

Rm. 330, North Block, Senate House,Malet St.,

London WC 16.30-8.00

New Zealand in Oxford: Dan and Winnie Davin

Anna Davin and Professor Janet Wilson (University of Northampton) will be discussing the life, writings, and work of Dan and Winnie Davin.

Anna grew up in Oxford with her parents Dan and Winnie. The author of Growing up Poor: Home, School and Street in London, 1870-1914 (1996), Anna taught women's history for many years as a visiting lecturer at Binghamton University, New York, Middlesex University and at Royal Holloway, University of London. Janet Wilson is the author of Intimate Stranger: Reminiscences of Dan Davin (2000), and the editor of The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin's Southland Tales (2007). She edits the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Session 103

Tuesday 23 June 2009

Centre for New Zealand Studies, Rm. 330, North Block, Senate House,

Malet St., London WC16.30-8.30

Two Poets
Fleur Adcock (pic right) and Cilla McQueen
This very special event is limited to 35 seats and we advise that if you wish to attend that you email your reservation to Tory Straker at <strakervictoria@hotmail.com>. The event is free and will be followed by a wine reception. Early booking is recommended.

We are delighted to welcome to the Centre these two celebrated poets. Fleur Adcock's books include The Eye of the Hurricane (1964), High Tide in the Garden (1971), The Scenic Route (1974), The Inner Harbour (1979), Below Loughrigg (1979), Meeting the Comet (1988), Time-Zones (1991), and Looking Back (1997). She was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006, and named a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2008.

Cilla McQueen's books include Homing In (1982; winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1983), Anti Gravity (1984), Wild Sweets (1986), Benzina (1988; winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1989), Berlin Diary (1990; winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1991), Markings (2000), Soundings (2002), and Fire-Penny (2005).