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The Featherston Booktown Podcast
The Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival is where we celebrate books, storytelling and ideas, and the artefact and craft of the book.
Join NZ Herald Columnist Shane Te Pou and Booktown volunteer Phil Quin for a series of enlightening and entertaining discussions with some of the featured guests from the Festival.
The Festival takes place from 10 -12 May 2024 in Featherston, Aotearoa - New Zealand.
The Featherston Booktown Podcast
On the Couch: Gregory O'Brien
If anyone in Aotearoa New Zealand deserves the description polymath (a person of wide knowledge and learning), it is Gregory O’Brien. Not only did Gregory win at this years Ockham awards, for best illustrated non-fiction with Don Binney: Flight Path, this poet, artist, art curator, and writer of fiction and non-fiction, also flew to Manchester, UK to set up an exhibition of his artwork.
He has received numerous literary awards and an ONZM. During our Festival this year, Gregory was joined by author and art writer Catharina van Bohemen as she investigated the wildly intellectual and creative life of a polymath who shows no signs of slowing down!
This episode was recorded at the 2024 Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival.