POETRY – WHAT’S IT FOR?: TUSIATA AVIA
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The iconic Tusiata Avia (MNZM, Arts Foundation Laureate and winner of a roll call of awards including the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry, a CNZ Senior Pacific Artist award, and a Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry) has been making poetic waves in Aotearoa since her debut collection Wild Dogs Under My Skirt (2004). Her most recent volume, Giving Birth to My Father, is a rich poetic work of grief and renewal.
Currently Writer in Residence at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), she joins Dr Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu in conversation about how to take poetry out of rarified spaces and make it accessible to more of us.
Writers on Mondays is presented by the International Institute of Modern Letters and The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The 2026 series will run from 12.15—1.15 pm each Monday from 6 July to 28 September at Te Papa and Circa Theatre, with two special evening sessions at Meow. Admission is free and all are welcome. The series is supported by the Letteri family.
The full programme can be viewed here: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters/about/events/writers-mondays
Come celebrate Aotearoa writers with us at Writers on Mondays – we look forward to seeing you there.
Currently Writer in Residence at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), she joins Dr Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu in conversation about how to take poetry out of rarified spaces and make it accessible to more of us.
Writers on Mondays is presented by the International Institute of Modern Letters and The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The 2026 series will run from 12.15—1.15 pm each Monday from 6 July to 28 September at Te Papa and Circa Theatre, with two special evening sessions at Meow. Admission is free and all are welcome. The series is supported by the Letteri family.
The full programme can be viewed here: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters/about/events/writers-mondays
Come celebrate Aotearoa writers with us at Writers on Mondays – we look forward to seeing you there.
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 55 Cable Street,Wellington, New Zealand
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