From the country of poetry:

Airini Beautrais, Jenny Bornholdt and Bernadette Hall talk with Bill Manhire about their latest books. 

Airini Beautrais’ second collection, ‘Western Line’, was published by VUP earlier this year.  Her first, ‘Secret Heart’, was named Best First Book of Poetry in the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Jenny Bornholdt’s new collection of poems, ‘The Hill of Wool’ (VUP 2011), was written while she was Writer in Residence at Victoria University last year. The expansive prose poems of her previous book, ‘The Rocky Shore’ (VUP 2008),  gained for her the Montana New Zealand Poetry Award in 2009.  Bernadette Hall’s ninth collection of poetry, ‘The Lustre Jug’ (VUP 2009), was a runner up in last year’s Awards. This year she is a Teaching Fellow at the International Institute of Modern Letters.

Where: The Marae, 4^th Floor, Te Papa

When: Monday 11 July

Time: 12.15-1.1pm

Writers on Mondays is presented by the International Institute of Modern Letters and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

The sessions are open to the public and free of charge.

Please note: no food may be taken into the Te Papa Marae.