Doctors in the House – Glenn Colquhoun and Jared Wiremu Kane
Glenn Colquhoun, Upsurge's favourite poet and GP, is joined by award-winning writer and former Waikato DHB doctor Jared Wiremu Kane. They will talk about their work, read from it, and possibly discuss being a doctor in the health system.

Both Jared (Ngapuhi) and Glenn have strong links to the Bay of Islands. Hokianga and Kororareka feature in Jared's upcoming novel Whakarongorua, and his short story set at the head of the Hokianga Harbour will be published in Annual 2, a miscellany of writing for young people. Glenn lived in Te Tiii for a time and his first collection, Walking Upright was about that community.

Jared was this year's emerging Maori writer in residence at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington and was 2022 supreme winner of the prestigious Surrey Hotel award. This stimulating session will cover a variety of topics and prove to us all what great medicine poetry and literature can be.

"The most haunting poems are those achieving the greatest intimacy, that offer balm to heartbreaking personal circumstances and a scaffold for living." Paula Green on Glenn Calquhoun's Poems to Young People

"J Wiremu Kane: remember the name, this guy is insanely good."- Steve Braunias, Newsroom

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