Ep 10 Maria McMillan: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Better off Read
English - February 07, 2015 01:57 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing is the subject of today's discussion about reading and writing with Pip Adam.
Maria McMillan's mostly Scottish and English ancestors settled in
Southland in the late nineteenth century. Maria was born and brought up
in Ōtautahi / Christchurch. She grew up on the side of a hill with a
view of the mountains and rooms full of books.
Maria has campaigned on feminist, peace, poverty and other human rights issues for many years.
She
has an honours degree in politics, is qualified as a librarian and now
works as an information architect. She lives with her scientist partner
and their two daughters on Kāpiti Coast. Her poems have been published
internationally and locally including in Shenandoah, Magma Poetry, Sport and NZ Listener. In 2013 her book The Rope Walk was published by Seraph Press and in 2014 Victoria University Press published Tree Space.