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Sitting in class late morning in 1974, on hearing a poem by the German poet & novelist Herman Hesse Peter Le Baige felt himself, in his own words, 'infused with a fermented light', and knew his future life would take him crashingly through foreign tongues and language forms and along the madly overgrown paths of poetry, wherever else it led him. Writing and performing poetry since the first session of the legendary 'Poetry Live' weekly poetry readings at the Globe Tavern in Auckland in 1980, his first two collections of poems, 'Breakers', 1979, and 'Street hung with daylit moon', 1986, are now succeeded by his 2023 collection, 'Blackbird in paradise', drawn from pieces written over the past 37 years. He remains lost in the garden still.

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Foss Leach CNZM is a New Zealand prehistorian. A strong advocate of collaborative cross-disciplinary research in archaeological science, he has published more than 100 scientific papers and books. He has contributed scholarly evidence to the Waitangi Tribunal for both the Crown and Maori claimants for hearings of Ngai Tahu, Muriwhenua, Te Rorora and Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairarapa. He has carried out archaeological fieldwork in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Micronesia. In 1988 he founded the Archaeozoology Laboratory at the Museum of New Zealand and was its curator until 2001, when he retired. He has served as an officer of many New Zealand and international organisations concerned with archaeology and has held a number of honorary fellowships in New Zealand and abroad. Helen Leach ONZM is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. She has a special interest in the anthropology of domestic life, including cooking and gardening. With her sisters Mary Browne and Nancy Tichborne, she has co-authored ten books on growing and cooking vegetables and on bread making. Her most recent book is Kitchens, a history of the New Zealand kitchen in the 20th century. She was awarded a Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture Medal for contributions in Garden History in 2008. In 2019 she became an Associate of Honour in the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture (AHRIH).

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Maire Leadbeater is a veteran peace and human rights activist and happily retired social worker. In her early years, both her parents were members of the Communist Party and closely watched by the security services. From the age of ten, the SIS kept records of Maire's activities. Her three siblings also came under scrutiny, particularly her brother Keith, a Green Party Member of Parliament for twelve years.Maire was active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament for many years, and in the1990s was the spokesperson for the Auckland East Timor Independence Committee. She is currently active in West Papua Action Auckland.

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Derek Leask served in New Zealand's foreign ministry from 1969 to 2012. He was ambassador to the European Union in Brussels from 1994 to 1999, Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Wellington from 2004 to 2008, and New Zealand's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (and Ambassador to Ireland) from 2008 to 2012. Leask was born in Wellington and has degrees from Victoria University of Wellington (BCA) and the University of Canterbury (MCom, Hons-Economics).