The Katherine Mansfield Menton Lecture
Thursday 17 May, 5.30pm
City Gallery Wellington
In association with the Winn Manson Menton Trust
Chris Price is the latest of a long list of New Zealand writers to have received the coveted Katherine
Mansfield Menton Fellowship, which allows the writer to reside for at least six months in Menton on
the Cote D’Azur in France and to work in a room at the Villa Isola Bella where Mansfield once stayed.
In the inaugural Katherine Mansfield Menton Lecture, Chris will present an illustrated selection of her
experiences as the 2011 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize recipient, and read from the creative nonfiction
project she worked on at the Villa Isola Bella — a book that goes in search of the deathobsessed
English poet, anatomist and suicide, Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Chris promises a mix of poetry, prose, photographs, and even live music: her partner Robbie Duncan will play guitar pieces composed in Menton between 5.15 and 5.30pm, as a scene setter for the lecture, which starts at 5.30.
Entry is free, but please note that seating is limited.
Image Credit: Robbie Duncan, Unlocking the Door, Menton, 2011.
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