Columnist, author and underwear model Joe Bennett talks about life - life as he knows it.
Crisis! What Crisis?
A crisis is an opportunity too good to waste, according to one maxim and financial journalist and broadcaster Rod Oram, author of Reinventing Paradise, couldn’t agree more.
Food of the Gods
How hard can research be when it takes place in Italy and France and involves sampling the local food and wine?
Married to their Art
Novelist and broadcaster Emily Perkins, who won this year’s prestigious US Believers prize (for the best work of fiction published in 2008) for Novel About My Wife, is married to artist Karl Maughan.
Pleasure Gardens
Karl Maughan has been painting gardens for 20 years, an entirely natural progression, he says, having had a landscape designer mother who took him to her workplaces.
Poetry at the Palace
A hit at the 2005 festival, Glenn Colquhoun returns to charm us once again with his GP’s bedside manner and his poet’s sensibility.
The Tree of Life
When Carol Drinkwater, the new owner of a run-down olive farm in Provence, heard about a 6000-year-old olive tree that was rumoured to be in Lebanon she knew she had to find it.
The Write Stuff
Acclaimed poet Bill Manhire founded Victoria University’s lauded creative writing course, now under the auspices of the Institute of Modern Letters of which he is director.
