Kaleidoscope - Cilla McQueen

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).

I love being able to express myself through different media. That's why I draw. That's why I write poetry, why I do sound performances; music and things like that.

– Cilla McQueen

Key Cast & Crew

Denis Harvey

Producer

Pamela Meekings-Stewart

Producer

Jillian Ewart

Producer