On Wednesday 6 June, I spoke with Kirsten McDougall about my book The New Animals, published by Victoria University Press,  at an event at Unity Books in Wellington I enjoyed it a great deal and thanks to everyone who came along and thanks to Kirsten for organising it and thanks to Unity Books for hosting us. Thanks … Continue reading Ep 56: Kirsten McDougall talks to Pip Adam about The New Animals at Unity Books Wellington

On 16 February 2018, I was invited to be part this amazing event organised by poet and librarian Hannah Mettner to celebrate The Next Word exhibition which is on until 24 March at the Tunrnbull Library at the National Library. It was great to chat with Hera Lindsay Bird, Freya Daly Sadgrove and Tayi Tibble … Continue reading Ep 55: Personal Poetry TMI Live at The Next Word exhibition at Turnbull Gallery, National Library with Tayi Tibble, Freya Daly Sadgrove and Hera Lindsay Bird

In this episode I spoke with Eamonn Marra. Eamonn is a writer, comedian and DJ. Eamonn's 2017 work I,Will Jones is described as a 'A true-ish story about friendship, Animorphs, and becoming the person you want to be'. Eamonn is an incredibly clever and funny writer creating stand-up, theatre and fiction. The thing that seems so … Continue reading Ep 54: Pip Adam talks to Eamonn Marra about ‘Cream Reaper’ by Julie Koh and ‘Dog Farm, Food Game; by Eamonn Marra

This episode was recorded as part of LitCrawl 2017 It was recorded outside at the Te Auaha LitCrawl Pop-up We recorded it yesterday. Susie is a writer, multimedia artist and descendant of the Wergaia and Wemba Wemba people from North Western Victoria. Her practice is concerned with the distances between place and people, themes she … Continue reading Episode 53: Pip Adam talks to Susie Anderson at the LitCrawl Pop-Up

This episode was recorded as part of LitCrawl 2017 It was recorded outside at the Te Auaha LitCrawl Pop-up We only recorded it a few hours ago. In this episode I talked to Kerry Ann Lee about her publication Fruits of the Backwater which forms part of her current exhibition  Better off Read is available on iTunes … Continue reading Episode 52: Pip Adam talks to Kerry Ann Lee about her work FRUITS OF THE BACKWATER

In this episode I spoke with one of my favourite Wellington poets Nina Powles. I first spent time with Nina around Helen Rickerby's table where a group of us were hand-binding copies of her first collection Girls of the Drift Nina is an outstanding poet, non-fiction writer and zinemaker. She is half Malaysian-Chinese, half Pākehā. Nina has … Continue reading Episode 51: Pip Adam talks to Nina Powles about her new work LUMINESCENT

Wellington poet and co-editor of Starling Louise Wallace published a new collection of poetry last month. Bad Things is Louise's third book and is published by Victoria University Press Bad Things, is about the different ways in which we survive. Political and personal, the collection navigates celebrity encounters, women and work, the weight of expectation, and the pasts … Continue reading Episode 50: Pip Adam talks to Louise Wallace about her new poetry collection BAD THINGS

I spoke with Rhydian Thomas, a writer and musician from South Wales who lives in Wellington, New Zealand. His writing has appeared in The Pantograph Punch, Sport, Hue & Cry and Turbine. He has released music with The Body Lyre and Strangers. We got together to talk about Rhydian's new novel Milk Island published by Lawrence and Gibson With the 2023 NZ … Continue reading Episode 49: Pip Adam talks to Rhydian Thomas about his novel MILK ISLAND

In this episode I talk to poet Maria McMillan about Adrienne Rich's poem 'Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev' and Maria's poem 'In which I attain unimaginable greatness' which is in her new collection of poetry The Ski Flier I spoke to Maria just as she was about to embark on Poets on Tour with Airini Beautrais whose … Continue reading Episode 48: Pip Adam talks to Maria McMillan about ‘Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev’ by Adrienne Rich and ‘In which I attain unimaginable greatness’ by Maria McMillan

I started this podcast because I had a theory that all books were about writing. That if I talked to writers about books I'd could learn something about how they wrote. I had this idea that talking about a book not written by an author would tell me something about their craft that asking them about their craft couldn't. … Continue reading Episode 47: Oryx and Crake Series 3 – Pip Adam talks to Antonia Bale