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All welcome to celebrate the launch of Ian Wedde's essay collection: The Social Space of the Essay, 2003–2023. We'll be upstairs at Time Out Bookstore, Mount Eden, on Friday 12 July, from 6pm. Peter Simpson will be launching the book for us and Ian will read. Please join us for books and wine and nibbles.
https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/the-social-space-of-the-essay-2003-2023/
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Celebrated poet, novelist and critic Ian Wedde’s third collection of essays follows How to Be Nowhere: Essays and Texts 1971–1994 and Making Ends Meet: Essays & Talks 1992–2004, and ranges widely through Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific ocean, and the libraries and museums of the world. Artists considered in depth and often from multiple perspectives include Bill Culbert, Ralph Hotere, Tony Fomison, Judy Millar, Peter Black, Anne Noble, Yuk King Tan, Elizabeth Thomson and Gordon Walters, while writers including Allen Curnow and Russell Haley are remembered.
Ian Wedde is the author of sixteen collections of poetry, eight novels, two collections of essays, and a number of anthologies and art monographs. His memoir, The Grass Catcher: A Digression About Home, was published in 2014, his Selected Poems in 2017, and his novel The Reed Warbler in 2020. Wedde is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships and grants. Among the most recent are the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship at Menton in France (2005), a Fulbright New Zealand Travel Award to the USA (2006), an Arts Foundation Laureate Award (2006), a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Auckland (2007), an ONZM (2010), and the Landfall Essay Prize (2010). In 2011–13 Wedde was New Zealand’s poet laureate. He was awarded the Creative New Zealand Writers’ Residency in Berlin 2013–14, and in 2014 the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (poetry). He lives and works in Auckland with his wife, the screenwriter and novelist Donna Malane.
Cover: Michael Parekōwhai, Yes We Are, 2009 – aluminium, automotive paint, neon signs, 6350 x 1720 x 285 mm. As seen in the One Day Sculpture series, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Time Out Bookstore, 432 Mount Eden Rd, Mount Eden, Auckland 1024, New Zealand, 432 Mount Eden Rd, Mount Eden, Auckland 1024, New Zealand,Auckland, New Zealand
