About
Cilla McQueen is a poet, teacher, performer and multimedia artist. McQueen has often written about Otago, and in this item she reads poems from the book and draws in varied locales around the region. McQueen discusses where she sources her inspiration, and the roles of silence in her writing. Her creative process involves stimulus from sight and sound as much as the written word. McQueen later moved to Bluff. Around the time this documentary was produced, in 1983 she won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the Jessie MacKay Award for her debut volume Homing In (1982).
