WRITERS ON MONDAYS
21/07/25
to 21/07/25
12:15pm to 1:15pm Monday, 21 July
Sand and Sugercane: Nafanua Purcell Kersel and Mikaela Nyman
Closes
Jul 21, 2025Posted on
Jul 2, 2025Event type:
Literature ,Price:
FREEVenue:
Rongomaraeroa (Te Marae), Level 4, Te Papa TongarewaAddress:
55 Cable Street, Wellington CityRegion:
Wellington ,Written by
IIML at Victoria University of Wellington
Jul 2, 2025
The poems in Biggs Family Prize in Poetry winner Nafanua Purcell Kersel’s Black Sugarcane can sting and soothe, revealing a paradise despoiled by climate change and colonisation, and celebrating a people resilient in the face of it all. Mikaela Nyman is from the autonomous, demilitarised Åland Islands in Finland. Her first poetry collection in English, Anatomy of Sand, follows on from her climate fiction novel Sado. These two urgent contemporary voices join Tamara Tulitua in a conversation about rising seas, political and personal poetry, the local and global.
Writers on Mondays is presented with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Circa Theatre, and Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day, and is supported by the Letteri Family.