Book critic Anna Rankin reviews Some helpful models of grief by Hana Pera Aoake on Radio New Zealand National as part of the Jesse Mulligan Afternoons programme.
Also covered: The posthumous Notes to John (2025) by Joan Didion.
Poetry czar Nick Ascroft announces by royal decree the 10 best poetry collections of the year.
Hana Pera Aoake’s book A bathful of kawakawa and hot water featured the work of Samoan-New Zealand typographer Joseph Churchward, whose work is also featured in the new Yorgos Lanthimos film Bugonia.
Highlights including Derek Henderson’s The Terrible Boredom of Paradise series from the new book edited by Amber Creswell Bell, featuring revelatory moments in time by 40 photographers on both sides of the ditch.
Hera Lindsay Bird features selections from Some helpful models of grief by Hana Pera Aoake as part of The Friday Poem series.
