Ekphrastic poetry

A special lunchtime session to celebrate New Zealand poetry! Therese Lloyd (shortlisted in the Ockham Book Awards for her book of poetry, “The Facts”) talks about New Zealand poetry that is inspired by New Zealand works of art – a genre known as ‘ekphrastic poetry’. A notable European example, she says, was John Keats’ ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’. In New Zealand there is the collaborative work of poet Hone Tuwhare and visual artist Ralph Hotere. Therese is researching a proposed anthology of this poetry.