FRIDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER
IN Conversation ON Conversation
7.00:
Welcome/Mihi
7.30:
The Curnow Reading: Paula Green
It is a Going West tradition to honour the late Allen
Curnow, one of New Zealand's defining poets. 'Not I, some child, born in a
marvellous year, will learn the trick of standing upright here.' has
become a mantra for the emerging of our national identity. This year we also
acknowledge the passing of Jeny Curnow who generously continued to support
this annual poetry reading. Paula Green is a powerful and authentic voice in
the pantheon of New Zealand poets and a fitting reader for this opening
session.
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Paula Green is a poet, reviewer,
children’s author, NZ Book Award judge and anthologist. Two recent books
include 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry (co-written with Harry
Ricketts and short-listed for the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards) and Dear
Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems (both Random House). Her sixth
poetry collection, The Baker’s Thumbprint, was published in May 2013
(Seraph Press). She has also published two collections for children: Flamingo
Bendalingo (AUP) and Macaroni Moon (Random House), with a new
collection forthcoming from Scholastic. She now runs NZ Poetry Box, a poetry
blog for children and is currently editing a childrens' treasury of NZ
poetry.
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7.50:
Keynote Address: Charlotte Grimshaw
IN
Conversation ON Conversation
The
theme for Going West 2013 holds its arms wide open to interpretation and
encompasses almost everything. So expect our keynote speaker to grab that
latitude and speak of her world as a writer of trenchant
fiction and wry and finely observed commentary. The weekend is about
'talking with' not 'talking at', and you, as audience, are invited to have a
privileged seat in that dialogue.
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Charlotte Grimshaw is the author of five
critically acclaimed novels and two short story collections. She has won the
Katherine Mansfield award, the Montana award and Montana medal for fiction,
been shortlisted twice for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story
Prize, won a Montana award for her fiction reviews and a Qantas media award
for her columns in Metro Magazine. Her latest novel, SOON,
described as a “really intense look at a group of powerful people in a small
country” was published by Jonathan Cape in the UK in July 2013 and will be
published in North America in October this year. Charlotte Grimshaw lives in
Auckland.
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8.30:
Leadership in a Landscape
In this powerful visual presentation, Sir Bob pays homage to the
west coast landscape and to the role that physical environments play in our
lives. Karekare, he believes, has a deep and compelling mystery and he will
take us through his life and thinking on how landscape and the environment
transforms our behaviour and contributes to the human experience. A book is forthcoming.
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Sir Bob Harvey is a westie to the core but
he is also a successful writer and historian. The former Mayor of the legacy
Waitakere City Council has had a 50 year love affair with Karekare Beach,
which he calls his muse and lover. He has been influenced by books read on
the beach and in the dunes and he credits his reading and this special place
in shaping his life.
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9.30:
Supper and drinks
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