After two disrupted years, Christchurch is looking forward to its WORD literary festival complete with real life audiences. Trustee, MC, poet - and occasionally chauffeur - for the festival, Daisy Speaks, can't wait. Daisy will be hosting Confluence 2022, at which Pasfika and Maori musicians and poets will celebrate the cultural, musical and ancestral connections between the islands of Polynesia and Aotearoa. Lynn Freeman talked with Daisy Speaks, who descends from Samoan orators, and first asked her why she's so invested in WORD? Daisy is chairing Confluence 2.0, part of the WORD Festival on Saturday the 3rd of September at the Piano on Christchurch.