Is This For Credits?

Hera Lindsay Bird joined Philly at her place for a drink and we thought – “Let’s record a podcast!”. In spite of her modesty, we gained a great insight into what drives Hera and her poetry. Links to content mentioned in the podcast: “ Pyramid Scheme ” by Hera Lindsay Bird Glass Leaves Text Manipulator – designed by Gregory Kan window.podcastDatab549c1411ad8cd = {"title":"Is This For Credits?","sub...

Starling Magazine has just published its 13th edition and it is going from strength to strength. We talk with co-editor Louise Wallace about the magazine’s inception, evolution, and its editorial process. Then Louise shares some of her own poems for our scrutiny and great pleasure. The poetry read or mentioned in this podcast: Amelia Kirkness “Cloud Watching” Louise Wallace “ The Thing “ Louise Wa...

This week’s episode is an investigation into some of the long-established conventions of Secondary English scholarship. Dr Welby Ings joins us and challenges some of our presumptions about how knowing and learning actually works. Philly talks to a student, Charlie, about what English is to them. References to items mentioned in our conversation with Welby Welby Ings’ Book “ Disobedient Teaching: S...

Philly approaches her text studies theme-first; engaging her students with the big ideas and emotions evoked, whereas Chris has a penchant for starting with a detailed exploration of style, form or genre and seeing what ideas emerge from there. Caitlin tells us all what NZATE is currently up to and outlines a range of professional development opportunities coming your way. Owen Marshall is our gue...

It’s a new year and our podcast kicks things off looking into the recent flourishing of LGBTQIA+ literature in Aotearoa. Chris Tse reads two of his poems for us and we discuss his work co-editing “Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LBGTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa” . We then speak to Chelsea from the new Alphabet Book Club : a store and community designed specifically for LBGTQIA+ New Zealander...

Welcome to the first episode of the NZATE podcast – We’re very pleased to meet you. Poet Liz Breslin reads her poem “ recaptcha / all I ask is ” and discusses how it came about. She suggests we all go take a look at Stasis Journal and Starling Magazine Check out her latest poetry anthology “ In Bed with the Feminists “ Teacher Ruth Richardson gave us a great insight into the work of Read NZ (forme...