A Conversation With Miro Bilbrough

2pm Saturday 24 June 2023
Miro Bilbrough in conversation with fellow writer Sara Knox
Community Meeting Room 3, Marlborough Library + Art Gallery
15 High Street, Blenheim (Free)

Miro Bilbrough makes films and write books, poetry, reviews, and essays. Reviewed as ‘the best book of non-fiction published in New Zealand in 2020’, her memoir In the Time of the Manaroans (Te Herenga Waka Press, Ultimo Press) was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, NSW Premier’s Awards 2021, and praised for its ‘exquisite wordsmithing’ in the Canberrra Times. Her filmmaking has grown out of her poetry practise, with Urn (1994), Bartleby (2001), Floodhouse (2004), and Being Venice (2011) garnering international audiences and awards on the film festival circuit and by broadcast.

She began publishing prose poetry with the first edition of Sport, followed by Landfall, Cordite, Contemporary Feminist Australian Poetry 2016, Australian Poetry Anthology, Cordite, and Best New Zealand Poems 2010. Her poetry chapbook Small Time Spectre was published by Kilmog Press (2010).

She is currently at the Godfrey Cheathem Arts Residence in Blenheim to develop a debut novel Spring Ephemeral based on her award-winning poem ‘Spider Silk’. Born in Wellington, Miro makes her living as a teacher of screenwriting in Sydney where she has lived since 1989. You can read more of her work or watch one of her films at https://www.mirobilbrough.com/

Copies of the book will be available for purchase from the Art Gallery $40