Writers on Mondays

Tauhou and The Artist: New Approaches to Form

'Tauhou' by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, W̱SÁNEĆ) is a hybrid novel that explores Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities. Each chapter is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. Ruby Solly’s (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) 'The Artist' is a verse novel set in a southern land, where the veil of time and space has worn thin and where legends become reality and history becomes the present. Multimedia storyteller Kahu Kutia (Ngāi Tūhoe) will join these writers to discuss their new approaches to form, and the reimagining and re-indigenising of history, place, and time they bring about in their writing.

Writers on Mondays is presented by the International Institute of Modern Letters with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Circa Theatre and Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day.

All welcome and it’s free of charge.