Top poetry prize presented posthumously
Three years after her death, Janet Frame has won the poetry category of the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards for her collection The Goose Bath. A previous recipient of awards for both fiction and…
TBI Q&A: Tony Drawbridge
Tony Drawbridge was always creating things as a child, though "sometimes it was just mischief". Now the prop and model maker gets to create things for a living, working on a diverse range of projects…
Wellingtonian wins NZ Digi-Poem Competition
Charlie Ward of Wellington has won the inaugural Great New Zealand Digi-Poem Competition with his audio-visual version of Paekakariki poet Apirana Taylor's poem "Hinemoa's Daughter". Convenor of…
2007 Spectrum Print Book Design Awards winners announced
Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand, written and illustrated by Audrey Eagle and published by Te Papa Press, swooped away with half of the awards on offer in the 2007 Spectrum Print Book…
Poet Fleur Adcock to receive honorary doctorate
Internationally renowned poet Fleur Adcock is to receive an honorary doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington. "Fleur is unquestionably one of our finest expatriate writers, in the tradition…
Mushroom Music NZ signs Pluto and Solaa
Rock darlings Pluto and hip hop fusion supergroup Solaa have both been signed by Mushroom Music New Zealand. The much anticipated third album from Pluto, Sunken Water, will be released in…
Young Australian Artists at High Street Project
Fresh from its successful first exhibition in Sydney, Limn File hits Christchurch on 1 August. This collective, represented by Matt Glenn, Nicholas Hudson-Ellis, Melissa Laing and Michele Zarro,…
The Venetian Bride at BATS
Based on a story by one of NZ's most highly regarded authors, The Venetian Bride is the debut play from Wellington writer/actor Robert Tripe. First and foremost a love story, it also touches on the…
World premiere of NZ Muslim short film at 2007 Venice Film Festival
NZ short film Coffee & Allah will premiere in competition at the world's oldest film festival in August. This year is the 75th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival, and for the film's director…
Metaphysical Heart: jewellery by Peter McKay at Objectspace
An exhibition of work by one of this country's senior jewellers opens at Objectspace on 28 July. Taking its name from a long-running narrative in brooch form, Metaphysical Heart: Jewellery by Peter…
The life of a writer revealed
Since early January, UK novelist Louise Doughty has been baring her soul for The Telegraph, charting the frustrations and triumphs of her life as a writer. Where does the inspiration for a book come…
The world's largest eco-friendly public building
Wired reveals the "textbook's worth of enviro-engineering tricks" used in the new California Academy of Sciences, which aims to be the world's largest eco-friendly public building when it reopens in…