Writers on Mondays – The Conditions of Rapture: Amy Marguerite, Sophie van Waardenberg, and Emma Barnes
Victoria University Press presents a series of events highlighting the very latest work of Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week.
Three poets discuss their extraordinary new collections, whim brim over with feeling and are taut with intellectual curiosity.
Mon 1 Sep 2025, 12.15–1.15pm
Rongomaraeroa, the marae, Level 4
Free event with museum entry
Three extraordinary poets introduce their new collections – books brimming with feeling and taut with intellectual curiosity.
Amy Marguerite (over under fed), Sophie van Waardenberg (No Good), and Emma Barnes (IF WE KNEW HOW TO WE WOULD) discuss their latest work with Anna Jackson.
They will discuss the conditionality of rapture, the loveliness of loneliness, the difficulty of living in a hungry body, how it has felt to keep writing through a pandemic, heartbreak and grief, and why it matters to make space for metaphor and memory, for sparrows and bees.
Left to right: Emma Barnes, Photo by Rebecca McMillan Photography, Sophie van Waardenberg, and Amy Marguerite, photos courtesy of the authors