ANSWERING HARK: McCahon/Caselberg, Painter/Poet by Peter Simpson (Craig Potton)
Listener – June 16, 2001
“Who are you? A poet or prophet or what?” This question the poet John Caselberg recalls was Colin McCahon’s first utterance to him when they met in McCahon’s studio in Christchurch in 1948. Caselberg was then 22 and McCahon was 29, and this meeting was the starting point of the most remarkable collaboration in the history of New Zealand art. … More,,,