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Newsletter – 2 February 2007 INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MODERN LETTERS Te P¯utahi Tuhi Auaha o te Ao Newsletter – 16 December 2011 ISSN: 1178-9441 This is the 177th in a series of occasional newsletters from the Victoria University centre of the International Institute of Modern Letters. For more information about any of the items, please email modernletters. 1. Awards, awards, awards ......................................................................................... 2 2. Let the turbines turn! .............................................................................................. 2 3. The Exercise Book ................................................................................................... 3 4. Arts Foundation Awards ......................................................................................... 3 5. Partners in rhyme .................................................................................................... 3 6. The IIML’s very own Christmas shop ................................................................... 4 7. Some things to look forward to in 2012 ................................................................. 4 8. The poetry wars ....................................................................................................... 4 9. Sanctuary .................................................................................................................. 5 10. BBC International Short Story Award ................................................................ 5 11. UK publishing opportunity for poets ................................................................... 6 12. What we were reading ........................................................................................... 6 13. A message from Libby Hart .................................................................................. 6 14. A quick reminder ................................................................................................... 6 15. Thanksgiving .......................................................................................................... 6 16. Recent web reading ................................................................................................ 7 17. Great lists of our time ............................................................................................ 8 _____________________________________________________________________ This is our last newsletter for 2011. Many thanks for your company during the year, and for all the news and suggestions. We‟ll be back in the first week of February – with, we hope, a more agreeable format. In the meantime, here‟s a Christmas tree. 1 1. Awards, awards, awards Congratulations to Hera Lindsay Bird, whose collection of prose poetry exploring love, science and the imagination has won the prestigious Adam Foundation Prize http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/refreshing-prose-poetry-collection- wins.html in Creative Writing for 2011. Bernadette Hall, co-convenor of this year‟s MA Programme, was struck by the energy and originality of the work: „Hera‟s poetry is as refreshing as spearmint tooth paste. It‟s vigorous, sparky and assured. It‟s contemporary culture hooked into real depth of thinking. It‟s also hugely funny.‟ Hera has close connections with the IIML, having completed several undergraduate writing courses, and winning both the Maurice Gee prize in Children‟s Writing and the Story! Inc poetry prize. This year‟s David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize in Scriptwriting has been awarded to Barbara Burke for her script Orla, a relationship drama set in early 1990s Dublin. Barbara received the $3000 prize at a function at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington last week. In a fine speech, award presenter US Ambassador David Huebner quoted from Get Shorty: „I once asked this literary agent what kind of writing paid the best. He said, “Ransom notes.‟” And the annual Biggs Prize, which acknowledges the potential of a poet in our Masters programme has been awarded to Rachel Sawaya. Rachel occasionally blogs. 2. Let the turbines turn! This year‟s edition of the online literary journal Turbine has just been launched, edited by Master‟s students Hera Bird (see above) and Christopher Howe. As always, Turbine showcases work by established and emerging writers. There‟s an exciting mix of poetry and fiction, as well as revealing extracts from the reading journals of a number of this year‟s MA students. The feature interview is with current Victoria University Writer in Residence, playwright Albert Belz, who opens up on writing for Shortland Street, the legacy of Billy T. James and taking feedback from actors. Many of this year‟s IIML Masters students have work on display, including poetry from Adam Foundation Prize winner, Hera Bird, and an excerpt from the reading journal of the Biggs Poetry Prize winner, Rachel Sawaya. Among the fiction contributors, prize-winning poet, Airini Beautrais, publishes her first short story – a comic tale about the terrors of teaching; and Wellington-based Indian novelist Rajorshi Chakraborti is published for the first time in New Zealand. Overseeing this year‟s Turbine, the IIML‟s Damien Wilkins comments that the journal is a vivid witness to the range and vitality of current writing: „It‟s a great place 2 to sample voices and to scramble any notion that there‟s a dominant way of writing. I can‟t see a pattern, just a lot of strong work.‟ 3. The Exercise Book The Exercise Book has snuck into the shops just in time for Christmas. It‟s just what the aspiring writer in your life has been yearning for. If you don‟t believe us, check out Mary McCallum‟s review on National Radio. All royalties from book sales go to our scholarship fund. And, as promised in our last newsletter, we‟ve been posting a few samples at our new modernlettuce blog. Modernlettuce aims to have a long life beyond The Exercise Book, so please keep an eye on it. And please know that we‟re happy to consider all interesting requests and suggestions. 4. Arts Foundation Awards Congratulations to novelist Emily Perkins, whom we were pleased to see laureated in the recent Arts Foundation awards. Scriptwriting graduate Eli Kent also received a New Generation Award, joining Jo Randerson and Anna Sanderson as one of the very few writers to have earned this distinction. For a brief moment we thought we would ask Eli for a contribution to our Scholarship fund after reading this sentence in the Dominion Post: „With a prize pool totalling $360,000, Kent, who wrote the play The Tinderbox now running at Bats Theatre, was awarded the $25,000 New Generation Award.‟ But then we peeled away the wobbly syntax and worked out what they meant. 5. Partners in rhyme Victoria University has announced a partnership with Writers and Readers Week for the biennial New Zealand International Arts Festival. Victoria will host visiting international writers who will deliver lectures and master classes, while our postgraduate students will be Writers and Readers Week volunteers, with responsibilities including assisting with the day-to-day running of the programme, attending sessions and working closely with the writers. Also, for the first time in New Zealand, Bill Manhire will give a public Poetry Masterclass. Writers and Readers Week takes place 9-14 March, and opens with the Chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, Tim Flannery, giving an opening address in the Wellington Town Hall. The full programme will be announced on 26 January. 3 6. The IIML’s very own Christmas shop If you‟re short of something musical for Christmas, we have at least two suggestions. First, Damien Wilkins aka The Close Readers released his album Group Hug back in July. For some of us there‟s a secret bonus: IIML administrator Clare Moleta, can be caught on backing vocals. The Bill Manhire-penned lyrics on the CD/DVD Making Baby Float are worth a listen, too, especially via Hannah Griffin, who brings the words to life in Norman Meehan‟s settings. You can check out the title track here while there‟s more about the album here. Then, gulp, in the world of books, a mere $5,000 will get you Chris Price‟s latest Other books from the IIML‟s boiler room include The Exercise Book (see above), The Best of Best New Zealand Poems, and London Calling, volume 2 of the plays of Ken Duncum. 7. Some things to look forward to in 2012 Pip Adam will have eight of her stories broadcast on Radio New Zealand. Lawrence Patchett‟s amazing stories will be published by VUP. VUP will also be publishing first books by MA graduates Aleksandra Lane (poetry) and Gigi Fenster (fiction). Also from VUP – Just Then, a new poetry collection from Harry Ricketts, who convenes our Creative Non-fiction workshop. Ken Duncum has a new play coming to Circa. Chris Price is back in the classroom. And our fingers are crossed that The Orator will get that Oscar nomination. 8. The poetry wars Everyone knows that poets make no money. But sometimes those who own their copyrights, often literary estates, do rather well. The latest news of this sort to reach us arises out of the row between Helen Vendler and Rita Dove over the former‟s review of Dove‟s new anthology of American poetry. It would seem that The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry couldn‟t afford to include poems by 4 Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg – something that would presumably have troubled the poets themselves, were they alive. We don‟t know how permissions fees work out in New Zealand. Sometimes there are none at all. We‟ve heard it said that Denis Glover
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