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Beautiful Archives: Airini Beautrais and Flora Feltham

Te Huinga Centre, Te Papa Tongarewa 8 July 2024

The opening session from 2024 brought together two writers of acclaimed first essay collections. Airini Beautrais‘s The Beautiful Afternoon is intelligent and emotionally fearless, surveying literature, activism, gardening, pole dancing, motherhood, and the body, highlighting the political in the personal. Flora Feltham‘s Bad Archive is a funny and bracingly personal exploration of marriage, infidelity, a mother’s mental illness, a lost sister, a frenzied bender in Croatia, and learning the craft of tapestry. These writers are in conversation with writer and journalist Michelle Duff. The session is introduced by Chris Price.