Walking the Seaward Road: Robin Hyde's North Shore

Walking the Seaward Road: Robin Hyde's North Shore

A literary event to celebrate the life and work of New Zealand writer Robin Hyde

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Organised by The Michael King Writers’Centre.

Sunday October 11, 2 pm

Holy Trinity Church Hall, Church St, Devonport

Tickets: $5 door sales only

Robin Hyde was the author of the renowned novel The Godwits Fly and a prolific poet, journalist, travel writer and war correspondent. Her short, tragic life reflected many of the difficulties faced by women struggling to become writers in the 1920s and1930s. Although she is now regarded as having had the most significant output of any New Zealand writer in that period, her work was largely ignored for many decades after her death. This event will bring together several people who have a remarkable insight into Robin Hyde, her career and character, and her contribution to New Zealand literature.

MC: Gordon McLauchlan

Derek Challis – Robin Hyde’s son and biographer

Alison Hunt – author of The Cage with the Open Door which is about Hyde's experience with the mental health system

Michele Leggott – poet and academic, who edited a collection of Robin Hyde’s poems

Yuko Takahashi – sings poems by Robin Hyde

This event is staged with the support of the North Shore City Council Creative Communities Scheme and is part of the North Shore Heritage Festival.

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