Much-lauded Pacific writer and poet Albert Wendt will read from his award-winning novel in verse, The Adventures of Vela, at the Going West Books & Writers festival at Waitakere City’s Titirangi War Memorial Hall on Sunday 12 September 2010 (10.30-11.15 am). The novel chronicles Samoa’s immortal song maker Vela and other divine figures, and was awarded the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for the South East Asia and the Pacific earlier this year. The reading will include a conversation with Nga Puhi poet and librarian, Robert Sullivan, in which Albert will reflect on his latest book – and a lifetime of telling and tales.
