Canadian novelist and poet, Michael Ondaatje, reads a poem titled "Pig glass", extracts from his novels "Running in the family" and "In the skin of a lion", and talks about his life and becoming a writer.
Presented at the Writers and Readers Week held during the 2nd New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, 18 March 1988.
Chairperson: Anne French.
Recorded by the Stout Research Centre Literary Archive.