Tracey Slaughter
Afternoons’ Poetry Day Competition
It's National Poetry Day - a nationwide eruption of words, voices, and creativity - and also the day for Afternoons' Poetry Day Competition. Poet and author Tracey Slaughter set the challenge of six… Audio
Poetry Day Competition Winners!
It's National Poetry Day which means it is Afternoons' Poetry Day Competition ... earlier in the show we gave you six words and asked you to send us your poem, Poet and author Tracey Slaughter has… Audio
Poetry Day Competition
It's National Poetry Day - a nationwide eruption of words, voices, and creativity. Regular listeners of Afternoons will know that for us it means its Afternoons' Poetry Day Competition. Here's how it… Audio
Expert Feature: Let's talk poetry!
Friday is National Poetry Day, and we are delighted, thrilled, positively effervescent to announce that - after taking a hiatus last year - our poetry competition will return! Once more judging your… Audio
National Poetry Day - Winner
Dr Tracey Slaughter announces our annual audience poetry slam competition winner. Audio
National Poetry Day!
Today is National Poetry day and continuing the Afternoons tradition - we'll be holding our annual audience poetry slam competition. To judge again this year we have Dr Tracey Slaughter along in the… Audio
Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook released today
The Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023: Afterburn is out today, featuring 150 new poems. It's the country's longest running poetry magazine - first published in 1951. Dr Tracey Slaughter edited the book. Audio
Winners of the annual poetry slam competition
Poet and author Tracey Slaughter's been buried under a pile of poems over the past hour - sifting through to find a winner for this year's National slam poetry competition to celebrate National Poetry… Audio
Annual poetry slam competition
The annual Afternoons poetry slam competition is back for 2022. To celebrate the Phantom Billstickers National Poetry day we invite our listeners to come up with a six line poem using six words we'll… Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 10
If Found Please Return To
The creeping misery of dementia is a catalogue of lost memories.
Told by Katherine McRae Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 9
If There is No Shelter - Pt 3
A woman stays with her traumatised father in post-quake Christchurch while struggling to deal with her own betrayal.
Told by Harriet Prebble Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 8
If There is No Shelter - Pt 3
A woman stays with her traumatised father in post-quake Christchurch while struggling to deal with her own betrayal.
Told by Harriet Prebble Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 7
If There is No Shelter - Pt 2
A woman stays with her traumatised father in post-quake Christchurch while struggling to deal with her own betrayal.
Told by Harriet Prebble Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 6
If There is No Shelter - Pt 1
A woman stays with her traumatised father in post-quake Christchurch while struggling to deal with her own betrayal.
Told by Harriet Prebble Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 5
Lady Birds
A visit to her mate Marty's estranged father's place proves to be a grim eye-opener for our young storyteller.
Told by Stevie Hancox-Monk
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Devils Trumpet - Pt 4
Holding the Torch
A woman reflects warmly on a holiday spent with a girlfriend and their mothers at the beach, warmly that is, until one of the fathers arrived.
Told by Mel Dodge Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 3
25 - 13
A mother and stalwart of the rugby club, does the hard yards as the carer for her disabled son.
Told by Carmel McGlone
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Devils Trumpet - Pt 2
Cicada Motel
The Cicada Motel is just somewhere for a woman to be while she waits for him to cut the strings.
Told by Amy Tarleton Audio
Devils Trumpet - Pt 1
The Receiver
A small drama plays out at a boys eighteenth birthday revealing a larger tragedy for the father and narrator of the story.
Told by William Kircher Audio
The Devil's Trumpet sounds
There is a real edge to the latest short stories by writer Tracey Slaughter, containing cautionary tales for people considering illicit relationships through to a dig at New Zealand's attitude to… Audio
