100 Days of Janet Frame - an 100 day radio special.
Janet Frame, ONZ CBE, was born 28 August 1924 and died 29 January 2004. She was a internationally renowned New Zealand author, writing novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography. She received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour.
To celebrate one hundred years since her birth, one hundred poems of her poems will be broadcast over 100 days by Access Radio Wairarapa, Arrow 92.7fm, starting on the author’s birthdate 28 August, and finishing on 5 December.
Becky Bateman reads #53 The Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Saturday, 19 October.
Sarah McClintock reads #79 Two Painters, on Thursday, 14 November.
Listen every day at 12 noon at Arrow FM 92.7fm / www.arrowfm.co.nz.
Thanks to Arrow FM, Wairarapa Word and Wairarapa Library Service, with the kind permission of the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The 100 poems were selected from The Pocket Mirror (1967) and The Goose Bath (2006).
The 100-day event is registered with 2024 Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day. Financial assistance was received from Masterton Creative Communities.