Chris Price

Chris Price is a poet and essayist from Aotearoa New Zealand whose work ranges across themes including music, science, and biography. She convenes the MA Workshop in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. Her three poetry collections include Husk (Best First Book of Poetry, 2002 New Zealand Book Awards), The Blind Singer (2009), and Beside Herself (2016), a collection of riddling poems which plays with character, language, and the way they interrelate.

At Bogliasco Chris Price will be working on poems and prose towards her sixth book (working title Speed Freaks). This project includes micro-essays — or perhaps prose poems — on language and craft, as well as two persona-driven sonnet sequences: one traversing across the end of the world as we know it and the other improvising on the rise of AI. Chris will also finesse a final draft of The Lost Romantic, a biographical excursion in search of the 19th-century poet, anatomist and suicide Thomas Lovell Beddoes.