Futa Helu / "The ocean of humanity is fed by the rivers of many cultures."

Murray Edmond, Caxton Press, 1988 Scott Hamilton Talks with Murray Edmond about His Eighties Masterpiece Town and Country Players perform Games We Play, a piece about the turmoil around the 1981 Springbok Tour of Aotearoa. From left to right: Murray Edmond, Anne Hunt, Ralph Johnson, and Janet Elepans. For five and a half decades Murray Edmonds has been one of Aotearoa's most innovative and interesting writers. This is part of an interview I did with the man during his recent

Scott Hamilton Jack Ross has been one of Aotearoa's key experimental writers in the twenty-first century, exploring many different literary forms and drawing on many cultures. This is the second in a series of interviews in which Ross lifts the lid on his toolbox, sharing techniques that can be alternatives to the hegemony of a dreary realism in Aotearoan literature. SH: You've been a prolific and very adventurous translator, tackling many different writers from many differen

Scott Hamilton J. Wiremu Kane is a prolific writer whose work has appeared in many Aotearoan periodicals. In 2022 he was the Emerging Māori Writer in Residence at Pōneke's International Institute of Modern Letters. He is interested in writing fantasy fiction that does justice to the history of Aotearoa and the experience of tangata whenua, and in this exchange he draws on his deep knowledge and distinctive interpretation of the work of JRR Tolkien. SH: Kia ora Jared, here are

A fascinating conversation between Scott Hamilton and Jack Ross covering various weird and wonderful topics.