Writers on Mondays: Night, Ma – Elizabeth Knox
One of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most acclaimed writers, Elizabeth Knox, discusses her incredible memoir of a calamitous time.
Mon 20 Jul 2026, 12.15 to 1.15
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Writers on Mondays: The Aliveness of Things – Haro Lee, Helen Rickerby, and Arini Beautrais
Three innovative poets discuss their new collections, which look at the past, the self, and uneasy times.
When | Āhea
Mon 13 Jul 2026, 12.15 to 1.15
Where | Ki hea
Rongomaraeroa, the marae, Level 4
Cost | Te utu
Free, with museum entry
In this event, three poets discuss their new collections.
Debut poet Haro Lee’s Watching Television in a Love Motel takes on self, family, and past though the cultural lens of TV.
Helen Rickerby’s genre-bending poetic memoir, My Bourgeois Apocalypse, is made with fragments from journals of the ‘weird years’, including the pandemic.
Airini Beautrais’s return to poetry finds her crafting a portrait of an uneasy time in The Salt Quilt, both sharp-witted and self-aware.
These three innovative poets are joined by Chris Tse for a conversation about bending poetic form to make past and future come alive.
Left: Airini Beautrais, photo by Skye Boniface. Centre: Helen Rickerby, photo by Kathleen Winter. Right: Haro Lee, photo by Julie Zhu
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