Ben BrownBen Brown

Ben Brown is an award winning children’s author, poet, short story/non-fiction/freelance writer. He has performed poetry throughout New Zealand and his work has been published around the world. Ben lives and works in Lyttelton.

How could you not have a story?

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Head and shoulders photograph of poet Ben Brown

At the National Library on Wednesday, Lyttelton poet Ben Brown delivered the 2020 Read NZ Te Pou Muramura Pānui. He spoke powerfully about Aotearoa’s incarceration of young people, and the extraordinary book he edited last summer as part of a writing workshop at Rolleston’s Oranga Tamariki youth justice residence, Te Puna Wai ō Tuhinapo.  This … Read more

The ghost of love will have her way: a poet responds to Auē

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An essay-review of Becky Manawatu’s novel Auē, one of four finalists for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, the most prestigious of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.  There are ghosts. They are real. You are born with them. You will die with them. They are your inheritance and will be your legacy. Cest … Read more