New writing from emerging and established
writers and the latest graduates of Victoria University of Wellington’s
International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is featured in the 2014
edition of literary journal, Turbine.
The annual online journal offers a sampler
of work by 2014 Master's students, alongside poetry and fiction extracts from
internationally regarded writers such as Maike Wetzel from Germany, Lesley
Wheeler from the United States, and award-winning Kiwi poets Lynn Jenner and
Marty Smith.
Victoria University chaplain John Dennison
contributes poems from a collection to be co-published in 2015 by Auckland
University Press and Carcanet in the United Kingdom.
The 2014 Victoria University/Creative New
Zealand Writer in Residence Hinemoana Baker talks to Fulbright scholar and poet
Max Chapnick about her current project, whether her writing has an implicit or
explicit political awareness, the joys of late-night writing, and the
similarities between writing and looking after a dog.
Recordings by five poets bring their poems
off the page, including work by the 2013 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry winner,
Morgan Bach, whose first collection will be published by Victoria University
Press in 2015.
Re-imaginings of Greek myth sit alongside
geological analyses of Kapiti-coast soil types; a family recipe book provides a
basis for an exploration into the Portuguese psyche; toilet humour, shipwrecks
and Robert Redford mix with work on Fiji, Samoa and Pacific waves.
This edition of Turbine is
characterised by themes of place, identity, safety, memory and connection.
“Turbine
continues to demonstrate the vigorous health of contemporary New Zealand
poetry, and we can expect to see books by a number of the prose writers who
appear here published in future,” says IIML senior lecturer Chris Price.
Turbine 2014
was co-edited by Max L. Chapnick, Ben Egerton and Patrick Hunn.
Turbine can be viewed online at www.victoria.ac.nz/turbine
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