The Author's Tale

In this episode we hear about Gavin's time as a high school student in Invercargill and later as a student of fine arts at the Unversity of Canterbury. He talks about being taught by some renowned artists including Trevor Moffitt, Rudolph Gopas, Bill (William) Sutton and Russell Clark, and their enduring influence on his work still today. For the up and coming artist or writer he provides wonderfu...

In this first part of New Zealand children's book illustrator and author Gavin Bishop's tale, we hear about his early childhood in Kingston and how he was inspired by the landscapes of a visiting sign-writer. Gavin reads from his autobiography 'Piano Rock', and shares some culinary tales. Go to Gavin's website, gavinbishop.com for more information about his work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

Continuing my casual chat with Christchurch author Kathleen Gallagher at her home tucked under the Cashmere Hill. In this our final episode Kathleen's tale, she reads for us her poem 'Silencing the Hikoi 1998' and her four poems of a war time love story, 'Italy'. Also we have another reading from her novel Inangahua Gold, read by Zara Ballara. Her latest film Rohe Koreporepo is having a screening...

Continuing my casual chat with Christchurch based author Kathleen Gallagher in her home tucked under the Cashmere Hill. In parts 1 and 2 of the Author's Tale we chatted with Kathleen about her plays and films, here in part 3 we talk about her connection to the mountains and how her knowledge of her own history and heritage all come together in her latest novel Inangahua Gold. Readings from Inangah...

In our first episode we heard about Kathleen's childhood, ancestry and experience in play writing and working in theatre, and I highly recommend you listen to episode one first to give you the background of how Kathleen works. In this episode we talk about Kathleen's films, radio plays and her connection to the land. We hear snippets from her film Tau Te Mauri, Breath of Peace - it was Kathleen's...

A series of casual conversations with prominent New Zealand Authors. In this episode I chat with Kathleen Gallagher - author of 3 collections of poetry, 17 plays, 2 novels and 9 feature films - in her home tucked into Cashmere Hill in Christchurch . We focus on her early ground-breaking play Mothertongue , how important her family heritage is to her, and how she is 'obedient' to her inner voice te...