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Auckland Writers Festival: Hope in the Faces of Strangers: Tim Winton

May 26, 2015 by Caroline Barron Author 3 Comments

Before seeing Tim Winton at the Auckland Writers Festival, if I’d seen him walking down the street I’d have pegged him as an aging surfer dude. And maybe tried to sell him drugs. Not really. But apparently that often happens to him.

“Most people expect clever symmetry in life. But most people die mid-sentence” – Tim Winton.

Image credit: Hank Kordas
Image credit: Hank Kordas

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Auckland Writers Festival: Lloyd Davis, Greg O’Brien and Helen Macdonald

May 16, 2015 by Caroline Barron Author 3 Comments

It’s 4pm and I’ve begun to feel the insistent pressure of the festival’s hand on my arm, asking me if I’m ready for the next event; if I’ve thanked the right people in introductions; written up posts for the blog. It’s not a harrowing or unbearable pressure, but it is firm, rather like, I imagine, Helen MacDonald’s hawk, Mabel, landing on a leather-clad wrist.

Today’s events have been strangely, inevitably linked. And that link is nature. Penguins, whales and hawks. As if the air’s molecules are bristling with an importance aching to be decoded.

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