Kate Camp
The joys of house museums and daily sea swimming: poet Kate Camp
In Kate Camp's new poetry collection Makeshift Seasons she's often to be found in togs, just in or out of the sea. Or, as she writes in one poem, "always driving to coasts in special outfits." Audio
2004: Kate Camp
Poet and literature critic, Kate Camp talks with Kim Hill about Katherine Mansfield – perhaps New Zealand’s most famous literary daughter. Camp won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of… Audio
Playing Favourites with poet Kate Camp
Kate Camp's newly published memoir You Probably Think This Song Is About You borrows its title from Carly Simon's classic 1972 song 'You're so Vain'. So it's no surprise the Wellington poet is joining… Audio
The Pre-Panel with Andrew Hoggard and Anna Dean
Panellists Andrew Hoggard and Anna Dean talk about a new 1905 rugby jersey acquired by Te Papa and share what they've been thinking. Audio
Kate's Klassics: Sydney Bridge Upside Down
Poet and writer Kate Camp returns to discuss another classic work of literature. This week, Sydney Bridge Upside Down. Written by David Ballantyne and published in 1968, it's been described as the… Audio
Kate's Klassics: The Talented Mr Ripley
Poet and writer Kate Camp returns to discuss a historic work of classic literature. This week, Patricia Highsmith's 1955 psychological thriller The Talented Mr Ripley. The novel introduced the world… Audio
Kate's Klassics: Isabel Colgate's Orlando King
Poet and writer Kate Camp returns to discuss a historic work of classic literature - this week it's Orlando King by Isabel Colgate. Written in 1968, the novel follows a charismatic young man trying to… Audio
Kate's Klassics: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Poet and writer Kate Camp returns to discuss another classic work of literature. Now seems like the perfect time for a deep dive into a dystopian sci-fi world so she's chosen English author Aldous… Audio
Poet Kate Camp: How to Be Happy Though Human
Poet and writer Kate Camp returns, not to discuss a historic work of classic literature, but to share her new poetry collection How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems. Audio
Kate's Klassics: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
"I am an invisible man....I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see… Audio
Kate's Klassics: Defoe's "A Journal of The Plague Year"
Poet and writer Kate Camp returns with another classic work of literature. This week she covers A Journal of the Plague Year, a book by Daniel Defoe released in 1722. It documents the 1665 bubonic… Audio
Kate Camp: literature for the lockdown
When you tire of crashing Houseparty, of DIY hair styling, of panic-buying flour, and of video-calling every last person you know, how about a good book!? Audio
Kate's Klassics - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Poet and writer Kate Camp returns for the latest instalment of Kate's Klassics. This week she reviews Maya Angelou's autographical work from 1969, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, a celebration of the… Video, Audio
Kate's Klassics: The Heat of The Day by Elizabeth Bowen
Poet and writer Kate Camp returns for the latest instalment of Kate's Klassics. This week she reviews Elizabeth Bowen's 1948 novel, The Heat of the Day. Audio
Kate's Klassics - Valley of The Dolls
Poet and writer Kate Camp returns for the latest instalment of Kate's Klassics. This week she reviews Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. The American writer's debut book became the biggest… Video, Audio
Kate's Klassics: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Poet and writer Kate Camp is in to talk about Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, the 1977 novel by the renowned American author who died earlier this month. The book won the National Book Critics… Audio
Wellington urges businesses to be 'China ready'
Wellington businesses are being urged to become 'China Ready' before up to 10-thousand new Chinese tourists visit the capital this cruise ship season. It will be the first time Hong Kong-based… Audio
Kate's Klassics: James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk
Author and reviewer Kate Camp talks about James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk, the story of young black couple in Harlem in the 1970s whose lives are torn apart by a false criminal accusation… Audio
Kate Camp - Kate's Klassics: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Kate Camp is the author of six collections of poetry published by Victoria University Press, the most recent of which is The internet of things (2017). She's won the New Zealand Book Award for The… Audio
Kate Camp - Robert Scott and The Worst Journey in the World
Kate Camp is the author of six collections of poetry published by Victoria University Press, the most recent of which is The internet of things (2017). She's won the New Zealand Book Award for The… Audio