Join season 2 hosts and English teachers, Pere Durie and Luke McFarlane, as they discuss pūrākau from around the motu and explore how we can weave this into our classroom practice.
Season 2 of this NZATE podcast is engineered by Angad Vraich.
Khadro Mohamed speaks to us about losing, and then regaining, her Somali language and how her culture and language influence her poetry. She shares her experiences growing up in a New Zealand…
As a salve to the challenges of starting a new term Dr Glenn Colquhoun talks to us about his GP practice where he specialises in work with rangitahi. He reads his poem “One That Got Away – fo…
Airana Ngarewa epitomises the best New Zealand has to offer to education and writing. Philly first met him while he was completing his Masters in Educational Leadership via Ako Mātātupu, and …
Jack reads some of his flash fiction and talks with candour and depth about his time at school with undiagnosed ADHD, his fan fiction, making Sherlock more gay, his writing processes – not to…
Both having recently taken over the position of Head of Department in new schools, Chris and Philly discuss their experiences. This is a chance to look ‘under the lid’ of two very different d…
Hera Lindsay Bird joined Philly at her place for a drink and we thought – “Let’s record a podcast!”. In spite of her modesty, we gained a great insight into what drives Hera and her poetry.
…Starling Magazine has just published its 13th edition and it is going from strength to strength. We talk with co-editor Louise Wallace about the magazine’s inception, evolution, and its edito…
This week’s episode is an investigation into some of the long-established conventions of Secondary English scholarship. Dr Welby Ings joins us and challenges some of our presumptions about ho…
Philly approaches her text studies theme-first; engaging her students with the big ideas and emotions evoked, whereas Chris has a penchant for starting with a detailed exploration of style, f…
It’s a new year and our podcast kicks things off looking into the recent flourishing of LGBTQIA+ literature in Aotearoa. Chris Tse reads two of his poems for us and we discuss his work co-edi…
Welcome to the first episode of the NZATE podcast – We’re very pleased to meet you.
Poet Liz Breslin reads her poem “recaptcha / all I ask is” and discusses how it came about. She suggests…