Contents

[NB: The bio/bibliographical information on this site was compiled between 2002 and 2004. Many of the details recorded here are therefore significantly out of date. If you would like to email me with additions and emendations, I will be happy to post them. Alternatively, you can record new information as comments at the bottom of your page.

We'd also like to add full photographic credits to any as-yet-unattributed images on the site. If you have information about these, we'd be very pleased to hear from you. – JR.]

Preface [2007]

Introduction [2004]

Poets (A-Z) :

A [6]

Fleur Adcock – [1974 & 2004]
Rob Allan – [2004]
Julia Allen – [2004]
K. O. Arvidson – [1974 & 2004]
Nick Ascroft – [2004]
Tusiata Avia – [2004]

B [20]

Stu Bagby – [2004]
Serie Barford – [2004]
Caroline Barnes – [2004]
Jennifer Barrer – [2004]
Helen Bascand – [2004]
James K. Baxter – [1974]
Arthur Baysting – [1974]
Jeanne Bernhardt – [2004]
Claire Beynon – [2004]
Graham Bishop – [2004]
Peter Bland – [2004]
Jenny Bornholdt – [2004]
Charles Brasch – [1974]
Erick Brenstrum – [1974 & 2004]
Diana Bridge – [2004]
Bernard Brown – [2004]
Diane Brown – [2004]
James Brown – [2004]
Alan Brunton – [1974 & 2004]
Owen Bullock – [2004]

C [13]

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell – [1974 & 2004]
Meg Campbell – [2004]
John Caselberg – [2004]
Tony Chad – [2004]
David Chan – [2004]
Jill Chan – [2004]
Lynda Chanwai-Earle – [2004]
Janet Charman – [2004]
Geoff Cochrane – [2004]
Kay McKenzie Cooke – [2004]
James Moeroa Cummings – [2004]
Allen Curnow – [1974 & 2004]
Wystan Curnow – [2004]

D [9]

Peter Dane – [1974 & 2004]
Lynn Davidson – [2004]
Leigh Davis – [2004]
Stephanie de Montalk – [2004]
John Dickson – [2004]
John Dolan – [2004]
Lee Dowrick – [2004]
Mike Doyle – [1974]
Grant Duncan – [2004]

E [5]

Michael Eager – [2004]
Lauris Edmond – [1974 & 2004]
Murray Edmond – [2004]
David Eggleton – [2004]
Riemke Ensing – [1974 & 2004]

F [7]

A. R. D. Fairburn – [1974]
Fiona Farrell – [2004]
Glenda Fawkes – [2004]
Sue Fitchett – [2004]
Lindsay Forbes – [2004]
Janet Frame – [1974 & 2004]
Robin Fry – [2004]

G [9]

Bernard Gadd – [2004]
Kathleen Gallagher – [2004]
Jane Gardner – [2004]
John Geraets – [2004]
Ruth Gilbert – [1974]
Denis Glover – [1974]
Paula Green – [2004]
Tony Green – [2004]
David Gregory – [2004]

H [12]

Isabel Haarhaus – [2004]
Russell Haley – [1974]
Bernadette Hall – [2004]
Michael Harlow – [2004]
Jeffrey Harpeng – [2004]
Judith Haswell – [2004]
Dinah Hawken – [2004]
Peter Hooper – [1974]
Ingrid Horrocks – [2004]
David Howard – [2004]
Sam Hunt – [1974 & 2004]
Jan Hutchison – [2004]

I [2]

Kevin Ireland – [1974 & 2004]
Elizabeth Isichei – [2004]

J [9]

Rob Jackaman – [2004]
Anna Jackson – [2004]
Michael Jackson – [1974 & 2004]
Helen Jacobs – [2004]
Adrienne Jansen – [2004]
Mike Johnson – [2004]
Tim Jones – [2004]
M. K. Joseph – [1974]
Vivienne Joseph – [2004]

K [7]

Kapka Kassabova – [2004]
Brigid Kelly – [2004]
Jan Kemp – [1974 & 2004]
Scott Kendrick – [2004]
Anne Kennedy – [2004]
Julie Kennedy – [2004]
Koenraad Kuiper – [2004]

L [8]

Jack Lasenby – [1974]
Michele Leggott – [2004]
Julie Leibrich – [2004]
Graham Lindsay – [2004]
Dennis List – [1974]
Terry Locke – [2004]
Alan Loney – [1974]
D. S. Long – [1974]

M [21]

Olivia Macassey – [2004]
Carl Mair – [2004]
Bill Manhire – [1974 & 2004]
R. A. K. Mason – [1974]
Larry Matthews – [2004]
Rachel McAlpine – [2004]
Dave McBride – [1974]
Gary McCormick – [2004]
Frankie McMillan – [2004]
Judith McNeil – [2004]
Heather McPherson – [2004]
Cilla McQueen – [2004]
Harvey McQueen – [2004]
Gerald J. Melling – [1974 & 2004]
Rosemary Menzies – [2004]
Luke Milner – [2004]
Barry Mitcalfe – [1974]
David Mitchell – [1974]
Michael Morrissey – [2004]
Martha Morseth – [2004]
Eric Mould – [2004]

N [3]

Emma Neale – [2004]
John Newton – [2004]
James Norcliffe – [2004]

O [10]

Gregory O’Brien – [2004]
John O'Connor – [2004]
David Ogle – [2004]
Peter Olds – [2004]
Michael O'Leary – [2004]
Victor O’Leary – [1974]
Stephen Oliver – [2004]
W. H. Oliver – [2004]
Bob Orr – [1974 & 2004]
Vincent O’Sullivan – [1974 & 2004]

P [8]

Alistair Paterson – [1974 & 2004]
Mark Pirie – [2004]
Vivienne Plumb – [2004]
Roma Potiki – [2004]
Jenny Powell-Chalmers – [2004]
Joanna Preston – [2004]
Chris Price – [2004]
John Pule – [2004]

Q [1]

Sarah Quigley – [2004]

R [11]

Gloria Rawlinson – [1974]
Blair Reeve – [2004]
Richard Reeve – [2004]
Trevor Reeves – [1974 & 2004]
Helen Rickerby – [2004]
Harry Ricketts – [2004]
Ron Riddell – [2004]
Lorraine Ritchie – [2004]
Matthew Robertson – [2004]
Alan Roddick – [1974]
Jack Ross – [2004]

S [17]

L. E. Scott – [2004]
Bill Sewell – [2004]
Iain Sharp – [2004]
Peb Simmons – [2004]
Jane Simpson – [2004]
Keith Sinclair – [1974]
Tracey Slaughter – [2004]
Elizabeth Smither – [2004]
Kendrick Smithyman – [1974 & 2004]
Barry Southam – [1974 & 2004]
Anne Spivey – [1974]
Alex Staines – [2004]
C. K. Stead – [1974 & 2004]
Olwyn Stewart – [2004]
Barbara Strang – [2004]
Mike Subritzky – [2004]
Robert Sullivan – [2004]

T [4]

Apirana Taylor – [2004]
Denys Trussell – [2004]
Brian Turner – [1974 & 2004]
Hone Tuwhare – [2004]

V [1]

Richard von Sturmer – [2004]

W [11]

Raymond Ward – [1974]
Ian Wedde – [1974 & 2004]
Albert Wendt – [1974 & 2004]
Virginia Were – [2004]
Tom Weston – [2004]
Pat White – [2004]
Wensley Willcox – [2004]
Nick Williamson – [2004]
Alison Wong – [2004]
Briar Wood – [2004]
Matthew David Wood – [2004]

Y [2]

Sonja Yelich – [2004]
Mark Young – [1974]

[196 poets in all:
171 from the AoNZPSA;
25 from the Waiata Archive;
27 are included in both archives]


[NB: Recordings of:

Kate Camp
Glenn Colquhoun
Anne French
Keri Hulme
Louis Johnson
Andrew Johnston
Thérèse Lloyd

are included in the New Zealand Poets in Performance series (AUP, 2006-2008) – separate volumes listed below].

Publications:

New NZ Poets in Performance (AUP, 2008)
Contemporary NZ Poets in Performance (AUP, 2007)
Classic NZ Poets in Performance (AUP, 2006)
NZ Poets Read Their Work (Waiata Records, 1974)

Listings:

Waiata Recordings Archive – CDs 1-27
Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive – CDs 1-40

Preface (2007)

Cataloguing Bards

The so-called “Catalogue of Ships” in Book 2 is one of the most fascinating sections of Homer’s Iliad. Generations of editors – and careful readers – have noted that it significantly contradicts other parts of the epic.

In the nineteenth century, this was seen as proof of multiple authorship: the many poets hidden under the single generic label “Homer”. In the twentieth, with the rediscovery of pre-Classical Greek culture by the archaeologists Heinrich Schliemann and Sir Arthur Evans, it became clear that virtually every place listed in Book 2 has significant Mycenaean remains nearby. And this includes many sites which had sunk into obscurity by Homer’s day, five centuries after the putative date of the Trojan War.

In other words, it’s a fossil: a marvellous section of verse preserved by the amber of oral formulaic recitation to go down through the centuries unchanged.

It might seem a bit strained to apply this analogy to the catalogue I’m presenting here, but consider the parallels. In 1974, and then again in 2002-2004, a concerted effort was made to collect the living voices of New Zealand’s most prominent poets. Many were undoubtedly missed out on both occasions. Sometimes this was through adverse circumstances: illness, or lack of contact details. Others chose not to participate. But, in any case, very full collections were made, and have now been deposited in two of New Zealand’s great libraries: The Special Collections Department of Auckland University Library, and the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.

In 1974 a triple LP of selected tracks: New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (parts 1 & 2) and New Zealand Poets Read their Work for Children, was issued shortly after the collection work had been completed. The three editors, Jan Kemp, Jonathan Lamb and Alan Smythe, selected tracks by 41 of the 52 poets recorded. The entire collection of recordings was deposited in the Turnbull library at the end of this process.

From 2002 to 2004, 171 poets recorded their own choice of their best work in the four major centres of New Zealand. Fuller details of the procedure are given in the Introduction to the Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive written by Jan Kemp and myself in 2004. Suffice it to say that a vast amount of material was collected and edited in these two years: the process of collection was initiated and organised by Jan Kemp, the editing of the sound files was overseen by Mark King, the editing of the text files by me.

Our three AUP publications: Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006), Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007) and the projected New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008) are, however, significantly different from the Waiata-stuyle publication planned by Jan Kemp and Alan Smythe in 2002. Their historical range draws on both collections, the Waiata and the AoNZPSA archives, but they also include a good deal of new material not available in either archive.

So I’ve felt ever since we completed our work in 2004 that even our collaborators were not really aware of the full extent of these two collections, only very partially reflected in their published offshoots: the three 1974 LPs and the three AUP CD / text anthologies. In order to remedy this, I’ve thought it useful to provide here a complete catalogue of the contents of both archives, listed alphabetically by name of poet, but also (at the end) indexed by audio-CD number.

This, then, is our NZ “Catalogue of Bards.”

Poets were asked to provide us with pictures, texts and bio/ bibliographies as part of the 2002-4 collection process. Most did so, and that information is reprinted here with minimal revision. I’m happy to update the bibliographies (particularly) if anyone wishes me to, but otherwise I’d like to see this collection as a diachronic section of New Zealand poetry at two crucial dates: 1974, towards the end of the 60s-70s poetic ferment here, and 2004, as a kind of backwards look over travelled roads: the twentieth century in New Zealand culture.

What I’m presenting here is, admittedly, already out of date. Five years have passed since the bulk of the recordings were made for the AoNZPSA. Hence the analogy with Homer’s ship-catalogue.

Out of date, yes; inconsistent with other information elsewhere in the poem, definitely – but intensely revealing to posterity in unforeseen (and probably unforeseeable) ways. No doubt further visual and audio collection efforts will be undertaken in future, but these two archives, nevertheless, have a consistency and integrity of their own.

Above all, it’s important they be accessed and enjoyed, as their makers wished them to be. A bard is an oral performer, and recordings must be listened to in order to come back to life.

There are 196 poets (27 of those recorded in 1974 were recorded again in 2002-4) represented here. You’ll have to go to one of the two libraries mentioned above to listen to the actual CDs, but at least you can now see what is included in this vast repository of tracks and texts and what’s not.

– Jack Ross, December 2007.

Introduction (2004)

Jack Ross & Jan Kemp at the Launch of the Archive
(Gus Fisher Gallery, 17 July 2004)

Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive

compiled and edited
by Jan Kemp and Jack Ross
with assistance from Edmund King and Mark King

Materials collected by Jan Kemp (Auckland), Elizabeth Alley (Wellington),
David Howard with Morrin Rout (Christchurch),
and Richard Reeve with Nick Ascroft (Dunedin).

1. History
2. Methodology
3. Statistics
4. Complete Listing of the 171 Poets
5. Acknowledgements


1. History


In July 2002, Jan Kemp approached Alan Smythe, the Director of SCAPA [School of Creative and Performing Arts] at the University of Auckland, about the possibility of their creating an archive of spoken poetry. In 1974, together with Dr Jonathan Lamb, the two of them had teamed up to produce Waiata Recordings’ three LP record albums, New Zealand Poets Read their Work and New Zealand Poets Read their Work for Children, which were a sell-out success to schools, universities and libraries.

The plan was to complete and release this new, updated archive by 2004, three decades post-Waiata Recordings. Jan Kemp accordingly began to compile a list of poets to invite to read. The first recordings began at the time of the AUP Seeing Voices festival in August 2002, when some poets coming from other centres were able to record at SCAPA, along with local Auckland poets. However, it soon became apparent more studios in the other three major centres would be needed to record poets locally, as no-one was able to fund trips to SCAPA solely for that purpose.

So, using SCAPA as home base for the archive, Jan organised the use of regional studios (listed in the acknowledgements), as well as appointing regional co-ordinators in Wellington (Elizabeth Alley), Christchurch (David Howard and Morrin Rout) and Dunedin (Nick Ascroft and Richard Reeve). The work of collection was well under way by December 2002, when Alan Smythe’s term at SCAPA ended.

Having received a Creative New Zealand grant for the archive in mid-2003, Jan Kemp was able to invite Jack Ross to become the textual editor and later co-director of the archive. He began editing the texts of the spoken poems, and continued doing so throughout 2003 and into 2004. He was greatly assisted in this by the archive’s research assistant Edmund King, who was employed by means of a research grant for further work on the archive obtained by Associate Professor Ken Larsen, head of the University of Auckland English Department. Edmund worked on the project based in the Special Collections department of the University of Auckland Library, where all the originals of the archive will eventually be housed.

Emphasis should also be laid here on the technical expertise of Mark King, from the University of Auckland’s Multimedia Teaching Support Unit, who established order in a labyrinth of sound recordings from studios all over the country. Jan assisted Mark in ensuring that the digital audio texts of the recorded poems correlate with the electronic texts and support materials compiled by Jack and Edmund. Mark was assisted in the final burning of the audio discs by Jeannette McKerchar, also of MTSU.

At the time of writing, a little over two years after the idea was first broached, 40 CDs of audio tracks have been recorded and edited, 2 CDs of playlists and edited texts (incorporating 171 files in 23 alphabetical folders), photographs, biographical notes and bibliographies have been compiled for each participant.

The Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive thus constitutes an unsurpassed body of reference material, both aural and textual, for the study of contemporary New Zealand poetry.

Alan Smythe & Jan Kemp working on the Waiata Archive (1974)

Jonathan Lamb [photograph: Jan Kemp (1974)]

2. Methodology


The choice of poets was, from the beginning, intended to be as wide as possible. Everyone included has some reputation as a poet in either the written or spoken medium, but the inclusion of performance poets has meant that the requirement to have published a book or a substantial number of poems in periodicals has (in several cases) been waived.

The selection of poems was left entirely up to the poets, within a loose time-frame (roughly twenty minutes apiece). It is believed that this adds extra interest to the collection, as it represents each writer’s own idea of their strongest work. Some ranged widely in time; others chose to include only their very latest poems. No introductions or parenthetical comments are included in the archive, though some have been preserved on the raw recordings which will be deposited in the Special Collections department of the University of Auckland Library with the rest of the original materials.

As well as living poets, it was decided to include poets no longer living who had still been active in the last years of the twentieth century. With the kind permission of Waitakere City Council and the Going West Books and Writers Festival organizers Murray Gray and Rose Yukich, as well as his literary executors Jeny Curnow, Tim Curnow and Elizabeth Caffin, Jan Kemp was able to make copies of recordings made at the festivals in 1999 and 2000 by Allen Curnow. Michele Leggott, founder and director of nzepc, together with Sally Rodwell and Martin Edmond, his literary executors, kindly gave permission for recordings made by Alan Brunton to be placed in the Archive. Elizabeth Caffin of AUP kindly gave permission for recordings made by Lauris Edmond to be copied from her CD The Poems of Lauris Edmond (Auckland, AUP, 2000). In addition, Frances Edmond, Lauris’s daughter and literary executor read a selection from Late Song, (Auckland, AUP 2000) Lauris’s last published book of poems. Margaret Edgcumbe gave permission for recordings of poems read by Kendrick Smithyman in a video interview with Peter Simpson and Mac Jackson, Closing the Chocolate Factory (Auckland, December 1995) to be copied.

All of the poets who participated in the project were each asked to bring with them, at the time of recording:

• hard-copies of the poems they read
• a brief, one page biographical / bibliographical summary of their literary careers to date
• a copyright sheet, including publication details for each of the poems.

Those with access to computers were also asked to send a floppy disc with these materials in electronic form, the intention being to make a CD of text files to match the 40 CDs of audio tracks in the sound archive proper.

It seemed desirable that these texts should be saved in a uniform format for ease of consultation. Times New Roman 12-point type was chosen, as the most standard font available. Extremely narrow margins were also used to allow maximum space for long-lined poems. Every endeavour has, however, been made throughout to preserve any distinctive spacing and orthographical pointing (italics, bold or capital letters) in the original texts.

The texts have been grouped into a separate file for each poet, listed according to the first letter of their surname, arranged (in turn) into a separate folder for each letter of the alphabet. Each of the files was uniform in appearance, with a title-page enumerating the separate poems / tracks. For example, the first poet in our list is:

Fleur Adcock

1. The Pilgrim Fathers
2. Camping
3. The Wars
4. For Meg
5. Smokers For Celibacy
6. Libya
7. Cattle in the Mist
8. Willow Creek
9. A Visiting Angel
10. The Video

Then come the texts themselves, with a page-break after each poem, then the brief bio-biblio.

Each alphabetical folder also contains a file (A-Lists, B-Lists etc.) containing publication details for each poet (these are accurate according to the copyright information provided to us at the time of recording – however, no systematic attempt has been made to track every subsequent publication of the 2,000-odd poems in the archive):

Titles of poems read (in this order): / Published (title of work, publisher, date)

1. The Pilgrim Fathers / all poems published in:
2. Camping / Poems 1960-2000 (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 2000)
3. The Wars
4. For Meg
5. Smokers for Celibacy
6. Libya
7. Cattle in the Mist
8. Willow Creek
9. A Visiting Angel
10. The Video

3. Statistics


The scope of the project is a little difficult to grasp at first glance, so a tabular break-down has been provided. There are 171 poets, arranged in 23 alphabetical folders (no surnames begin with U, X or Z). The more-than-2,000 tracks have been edited into 3,000-odd pages of electronic text – by far the largest anthology of New Zealand poets and poetry ever compiled.

POETS RECORDED - POEMS / TRACKS - PAGES (POEMS & BIOBIBLIOS)

A - 6 - 60 - 89
B - 17 - 221 - 324
C - 13 - 143 - 272
D - 8 - 82 - 146
E - 5 - 77 - 112
F - 6 - 83 - 117
G - 7 - 72 - 128
H - 10 - 125 - 205
I - 2 - 23 - 35
J - 8 - 104 - 158
K - 7 - 78 - 129
L - 4 - 39 - 63
M - 17 - 165 - 265
N - 3 - 29 - 46
O - 9 - 104 - 150
P - 8 - 111 - 161
Q - 1 - 13 - 22
R - 9 - 95 - 148
S - 15 - 205 - 321
T - 4 - 49 - 78
V - 1 - 9 - 24
W - 10 - 142 - 200
Y - 1 - 14 - 21

171 poets - 2043 tracks - 3214 pages
+ 171 Title-lists
= 3385 pages

4. Complete Listing of the 171 Poets


Available here.


5. Acknowledgements


Thanks to the poets (and literary executors of poets) who have granted permission for recordings and texts to be deposited in this archive – under the following strict terms of access:

• The material will only be made available within a library under the supervision of a librarian for the purposes of research and private study.
• Copies of works will only be made by library staff after satisfying themselves that the request falls strictly within the “private study and research” category.
• No other copies of any works in the Archive may be made without the written permission of copyright owners.

Thanks also to those publishers who have granted permission for this reproduction of previously-published work. Every effort has been made to trace the latest copyright holders, but if any omissions have been made in this regard, we will be happy to deposit any revised information communicated to us with the rest of the copyright documentation held in the Special Collections department of the University of Auckland Library.

Honorary Consultant Patron: MacD. P. Jackson
Honorary Patrons: Elizabeth Alley, Morrin Rout and Alan Smythe

Sponsors: Creative New Zealand
SCAPA [University of Auckland School of Creative and Performing Arts]
University of Auckland Library
University of Auckland Staff Research Fund
University of Auckland English Dept
Faculty of Arts, University of Otago
nzepc [New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre]

Studios: SCAPA
nzepc
Going West Books and Writers Festival Archives, Waitakere
Vincent Geddes and the BBC World Service, Paparoa
Breaker Bay Records Wellington
Braeburn Studio, Wellington
John Kelcher at the Radio NZ Studios, Durham St, Christchurch
Plains Radio FM, Christchurch
Faculty of Arts, University of Otago
Arc Café Studio, Dunedin
Diverse Studios used by poets in Australia, Japan, the Netherlands and U.S.A.

Other advisors at various stages of the project have included Michael Sumpter, Richard Niven, Grant Wills and Melanie Johnson.

Jan Kemp, founder and director
Jack Ross, co-director
Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive


© copyright 2004 Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive. Fair dealing and educational use under copyright laws permitted. All other rights reserved.


Further information on the project can be found on our online feature page:

• 12 Taonga from the Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive.

• or in Peter Simpson’s article “You have 2100 new messages: The making of the Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive.” NZ Listener (September 11, 2004): 44.

Adcock, Fleur

[Photograph: Neil Astley]

Fleur Adcock (b. 1934)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 1

Incident
A Game
Stewart Island

LP 3, side 2

The Pangolin
Country Station

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 16

For a Five Year Old
Incident
I Ride on My High Bicycle
Think before You Shoot
The Pangolin
A Game
Being Blind
Stewart Island
On a Son Returned to New Zealand
Country Station
Richey
An Illustration to Dante
External Service

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD01

1. The Pilgrim Fathers
2. Camping
3. The Wars
4. For Meg
5. Smokers For Celibacy
6. Libya
7. Cattle in Mist
8. Willow Creek
9. A Visiting Angel
10. The Video

Bio /Bibliography:

Fleur Adcock was born in Papakura in 1934. At the age of five, she moved with her family to England, where she ‘went to eleven schools in seven and a half years’, before returning to New Zealand in 1947. She attended Wellington Girls’ College, and, later, Victoria University, from which she graduated M.A. (first class honours) in Classics.

After moving to Dunedin in 1958, she lectured briefly in the Classics Department at Otago University, after which she worked as a librarian. She had a number of poems published in Landfall in the late 1950s and early 1960s; her first volume appeared in Wellington in 1964. By this time, however, she had emigrated to the U.K., where she worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office for sixteen years, before resigning in order to write full-time.

In Britain, she has said that she ‘had to start again’ as a poet, submitting to British poetry magazines and attending readings and workshops before becoming established in the 1970s. During this time, however, and through the 1980s, ‘90s, and beyond, she maintained links with the New Zealand literary scene, seeing poetry published in, among other places, Landfall, Islands, The New Zealand Listener, and JAAM, and reviewing the work of New Zealand writers in British journals and newspapers.

Since becoming a full-time writer in 1979, she has, in addition to publishing ten volumes of poetry, reviewed widely, held a number of writing fellowships at British Universities, written and broadcasted for the BBC, edited poetry anthologies, and translated Romanian and Medieval Latin poetry. She was awarded an O.B.E. for services to literature in 1996. She has two sons, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Selected Bibliography

Poetry Volumes:

The Eye of the Hurricane (Wellington: Reed, 1964)
Tigers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967)
High Tide in the Garden (London: OUP, 1971)
The Scenic Route (London: OUP, 1974)
Below Loughrigg (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1979)
The Inner Harbour (Oxford: OUP, 1979)
Hotspur: a Ballad for Music (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1986)
The Incident Book (Oxford: OUP, 1986)
Time Zones (Oxford, OUP, 1991)
Looking Back (Oxford: OUP, 1997)

Collections:

Selected Poems (Oxford: OUP, 1983)
Poems 1960-2000 (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 2000)

Translations:

The Virgin and the Nightingale: Medieval Latin Poems (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1983)
Orient Express, by Grete Tartler (Oxford: OUP, 1989)
Letters from Darkness, by Daniela Crasnaru (Oxford: OUP, 1991)

Edited Poetry Anthologies:

The Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry (Auckland, OUP, 1982)
The Faber Book of 20th Century Women’s Poetry (London: Faber and Faber, 1987)

Allan, Rob

[Photograph: Richard Allan]

Rob Allan (b. 1945)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD01

1. From Port Chalmers to Jack’s House Lawrence: A Short Journey [1-5]
2. Karitane Postcards [1-5]
3. The Poet Follows the Janet Frame Heritage Trail with His Beloved and Her Daughter
4. Mainland
5. A Red Basket of Poetry
6. The Poet Renunciates
7. From the Harbour Terrace
8. Readings from the Temple Gallery

Bio /Bibliography:

Born in Birmingham ,United Kingdom in 1945.
Travelled to Dunedin New Zealand with my parents and sisters in 1960, where I attended Otago Boys High School and the Otago University.
Trained as an educational psychologist and teacher.
Started to write poems in my twenties and was published in my thirties and forties.
First book of poems Karitane Postcards published in 1992.
Married and separated with three sons.
Teaching deaf students in Otago schools.
Several more poetry books are intended.

Bibliography:

Published in Landfall, Sport, NZ Listener, Poetry Australia, Descant (Canada), Meanjin (Australia ), Glottis, Critic, Rimu, PPTA Journal, Takahe, Poetry NZ, Printout.

Anthologies:

Antipodes New Writing (1987), North & South, Poetry Australia (1987), Descant (Canada, 1989), Penguin Contemporary New Zealand Poetry (1989), Visions International (USA 1992), Oxford NZ Poetry ( 1994), From the Mainland ( Eds. Jones and Murray, 1997), Doors ( Ed Locke, 2000), Jewels in the Water ( Ed Locke, 2000).

Awards and Grants:

PEN( NZSA) Best First Book of Poetry award 1992
Creative NZ Grants 1989 $4500, 1999 $9000, received with thanks.

Allen, Julia

[Photograph: nzepc]

Julia Allen (b. 1952)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD01

1. Midas Touch
2. Dracula
3. Drop
4. Poem
5. Flax
6. The Little Red Shoes
7. Charm
8. Gravedigger
9. Later
10. Watercolour
11. Chinese Box
12. The Cave
13. Replays (for Mervyn Thompson)
14. When Disaster Strikes
15. Red Jersey
16. True Love
17. Mad Hatter
18. Tree
19. Toy Maker
20. The Cradle
21. Variations
22. Passion Play

12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):

Flax

Bio /Bibliography:

Julia Allen was born in Christchurch in 1952. She has been an actress, a drama teacher, a law student and a part-time lecturer at the University of Canterbury. Her poetry has been published in Morepork, Landfall, Climate, Poetry Australia, Untold, Takahe and the New Zealand Listener. A solo collection, Midas Touch, appeared under the Nag’s Head imprint in 1990.

Biblio:

Look for the wart in your cottage cheese pottle (with Stuart McKenzie and Laurens Van der Lingen), Christchurch: d’PRESS’d, 1984
Midas Touch (with illustrations by Kate Bowes), Christchurch: Nag’s Head Press, 1990

Arvidson, K. O.

K. O. (Ken) Arvidson (b. 1938)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 2

The Tall Wind
This Giving

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 15

This Giving
Gnomic Poem
The Tall Wind
At Pukerua Bay
Fish & Chips on the Merry-Go-Round
Riding the Pendulum
Four Last Songs – Part I
Four Last Songs – Part III

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD01

1. After Rilke
2. Old Blush
3. Readings
4. Some Legends of the Civil War
5. In Suva’s Morning Light
6. End

Bio /Bibliography:

Kenneth Owen Arvidson, born in 1938, named after grandfather Knut Otto Arvidsson, is married to Mary Southby. He has three children, two of them by an earlier marriage, and five grandchildren. From 1956 he studied part-time at the University of Auckland, firstly in science, graduating BA in 1963 in English, German and Philosophy, and MA in 1966, in English. Early poems appeared firstly in Kiwi, and from 1963 in Landfall.

1961-63 taught senior English at St Peter’s College, Epsom.
1964-66 Junior Lecturer in English, University of Auckland.
1967-70 Lecturer in English, Flinders University, Adelaide.
1971-74 Lecturer in English, University of the South Pacific, Suva.
1974 Lecturer in English, University of Waikato.
1984 Associate Professor of English.
English Department chairman 1984-1989 and 1993-95.
2002- Research Associate, University of Waikato.
Main teaching and research areas: Victorian literature, Modernism, History and Theory of Criticism, New Zealand literature, Australian literature, Pacific literature and culture, and Irish literature.

Some career highlights:

1963 Macmillan Brown Prize for Literature (poetry).
1973 Examiner in English for the South Pacific region, NZ UE Board.
1977 Took part in the East-West Center (Honolulu) International Literary Symposium at invitation of US State Department.
1980- Professional Associate, East-West Center, Honolulu.
1981 Poetry judge, National Book Awards.
1982 Fiction judge, National Book Awards.
1982- Editorial Board, Journal of New Zealand Literature.
1986-87 Associate Member, Darwin College, University of Cambridge.
1987 Presented “An evening of NZ poetry”, NZ Embassy, Washington DC.
1993 Judge, BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award.
1994-96 Chairman, South Pacific Assn of Commonwealth Lang and Lit Studies.
2001- Editor, Journal of New Zealand Literature.

Publications include Riding the Pendulum: Poems 1961-69, OUP (Auck) 1973, and editions of John Gorst’s The Maori King, Reed 2001, and The Selected Poems of Lauris Edmond, BWB 2001. Poetry has appeared in Landfall, Islands, Mate, Comment, Meanjin, NZ Poetry Yearbook, Poetry Australia, Poetry NZ, and Sport. Poetry has been anthologised in Young Commonwealth Poets, Anthology of 20th Century NZ Poetry, NZ Writing Since 1945, Penguin Book of NZ Verse, The Oxford Book of NZ Poetry in English, NZ Love Poems (Bertram, Edmond), and Essential NZ Poems.

A further volume of poetry is in preparation.

Ascroft, Nick

[Photograph: Jan Kemp]

Nick Ascroft (b. 1973)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD01

1. The Badder & the Better
2. Doesn’t Have a Name
3. Better
4. A Dogma of Dogs
5. The Making of Some by Dogs & Versa.
6. All of the Other Ascrofts Are Dead
7. Cheap Present
8. Pig in a Pool

Bio /Bibliography:

Nick Ascroft was born in Oamaru in 1973 and educated at the University of Otago. He is the founding editor of Glottis, has been a guest editor of Takahe, and has edited the Otago University Students’ Association literary review. In the first half of 2003, he was Burns Fellow at the University of Otago. His poetry has appeared in Trout, JAAM, Southern Ocean Review, Takahe, Glottis, Poetry NZ, the Listener, Sport and Landfall. He is a regular contributor of reviews, criticism and interviews to various publications and frequently performs his work in Dunedin.

Biblio:

From the Author of, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2000
Nonsense, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2003

Editor:

Litter: OUSA literary review, 2000 (with Corin Black)
Glottis, 1-9

Anthologies:

New Zealand Writing: The NeXt Wave, Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1998

Avia, Tusiata

Tusiata Avia (b. 1966)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD01

1. My Dog
2. Fresh Off the Boat
3. My First Time in Samoa
4. Girls’ Life
5. Fa’afetai mo Mea Ai
6. Wild Dogs Under My Skirt

Bio /Bibliography:

Tusiata Avia is a poet, performer and writer. At the moment (2003) she is working on a solo show called Wild Dogs Under My Skirt which will be staged in Wellington in April/May and a documentary for Radio NZ called Which Way to Paradise. Last year she did the MA at Victoria University and despite that still wants to write poetry.

She has published in various literary journals including Takahe, Sport and Turbine. She also has two children’s books published by Learning Media.

Bagby, Stu

[Photograph: Jan Kemp]

Stu Bagby (b. 1947)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD02

1. Blue Baths, Rotorua
2. First Dance
3. Looking at the big picture
4. No thank you
5. Small steps
6. Tending, Christmas 1999
7. Sonnet for back door beer drinkers
8. Open to the right kind of public
9. Mad Viko
10. The tourist at the printery
11. Early morning/Te Wharau
12. Postscript
13. No getting away from it
14. Country ways
15. Hawk or gull or dove

Bio / Bibliography:

Stu Bagby was born in Te Kopuru in 1947. He began writing poetry in his forties when he took up the position of gravedigger on Auckland's North Shore. Editor and publisher of the prose/poetry anthology Here After (Living with Bereavement), he was the winner of the NZ Poetry Society Competition in 2000. In 2002 a selection of his work appeared in New Poets Vol. 2, published by Auckland University Press.

Barford, Serie

Serie (Cherie) Barford (b. 1960)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD02

1. Plea to the Spanish Lady
2. how coffee got to brazil
3. God is near the equator
4. Leonard Cohen’s mother
5. an admirable bonsai
6. bonsai my heart
7. there are moments
8. migration
9. a tribute to Elizabeth Bligh: a sequence of poems [6]
10. that day in Jena
11. heard it on the grapevine

Bio / Bibliography:

This year (2003) I've participated in the Lopdell House collaboration and exhibition/performance between artists and poets and had a couple of poems published in Whetu Moana – Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English, edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan. AUP 2003.

Bibliography:

Two collections of my own poetry:

Plea to the Spanish Lady, Hard Echo Press 1985
Glass Canisters, Hard Echo Press 1989

Other publications:

The Globe Tapes, Hard Echo Press 1985 - This consists of 2 cassettes (live recordings) and two volumes of original poetry from the Globe Hotel poetry evenings
Ariel - A Review of International English Literature, University of Calgary Press Volume 17 Number 4 Canada 1986
Rambling Jack, 5 Miracle Mart Receiving 1987
Pacific Voices - An Anthology of Maori and Pacific Writing, Macmillan 1989
Takahe, Issues 4 and 11 Takahe Publishing Collective 1990-92
Landfall, Numbers 164 182 183 Caxton Press 1987-92
The Tenth Year of the Titirangi Poets, Hard Echo Press 1987
Yellow Pencils - Contemporary Poetry by NZ Women, Oxford University Press 1988
New Women's Fiction, Volumes 1, 3 and 4 New Women's Press 1988-91
Other Voices 2, Brick Row 1991
Hecate, Vol. XX no.ii Hecate Press University of Queensland 1994
Printout, Issues 2, 3, 10, 11 and 12 Printout 1992 to 1997
100 NZ short short stories, Tandem Press 1997
another 100 NZ short short stories, Tandem Press 1998
the third century NZ short short stories, Tandem Press 1999
100 New Zealand short short stories, 4 Tandem Press 2000
kiwi: icon in trouble, a collaborative installation with Jan Robertson April 2000 displayed in a space in a wall in High Street, Auckland. Engraved haiku (mine) and sandblasted glass (Jan's work)
Jewels in the Water, ed. by Terry Locke University of Waikato 2000
Doors, edited by Terry Locke University of Waikato 2000
New Zealand short short stories: the collection, Hinemoa Publishing 2000
Rattapallax Magazine: United Nations Year of Dialogue among Nations, USA 2001

Barrer, Jennifer

Jennifer Barrer

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD02

1. I am a Camera
2. My Love Will Come
3. Sing Loudly
4. Ronald Allison Kells Mason
5. Christmas Poem
6. Tuahiwi
7. War Baby
8. The Cherry Orchard
9. Ngaio
10. In Small Ways
11. Christ Mounted The Cross
12. Peace Flight Tahiti 1995
13. Charleston
14. Facing the Sun

Bio / Bibliography:

Jennifer Margaret Barrer was born in Christchurch and was educated at Cashmere Primary School, Rangi Ruru Girls’ school and Christchurch Teachers’ College. She was married to Giles Goldsbrough and they a have daughter, Katharine. She was then married to John Blumsky; they have three children, Joseph, Peter and Sarah. Jennifer has worked as a professional actress and director in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin.

Some of the roles she has played include: ‘Caitlin’ in Dylan; ‘Sonia’ in Uncle Vanya; ‘Gertrude’ in Hamlet; ‘Miranda’ in The Tempest; ‘Blanche du Bois’ in A Streetcar Named Desire; ‘Jo’ in Little Women; ‘Polly Garter’ in Under Milkwood; and ‘Catherine’ in The Heiress. Jennifer also played ‘Katharine’ in the very first New Zealand television drama, a 40 minute adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew in 1963, and has appeared in films and on television since that time.

She has made videos on John Rangihau, Mervyn Thompson and the ‘Human Condition’. She directed the first full stage production of R.A.K. Mason’s Strait is the Gate in 1978 in Dunedin.

As a teacher, she taught at Cashmere Primary School, Thorrington School, Christchurch South Intermediate, Parnell School, Tamaki Intermediate, Point England School, St Helier’s School and was Head Teacher at Tuahiwi School. She encouraged her pupils in the creative arts and adapted the rigid syllabus of the 1960s, always keeping a piano in the classroom.

After teaching, she became the first New Zealand Director of the Standardised Patient Programme at the Christchurch School of Medicine from 19941999. In this role, she trained graduate and undergraduate trainee doctors in the art of doctor/patient communication skills. In 1995, she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship and published a report, Under the Rainbow, which examines the patient/doctor perspective in medicine. For this undertaking, she interviewed 74 people in Canada, the United Sates, Ireland, Scotland, England and New Zealand.

Jennifer’s first poem was published when she was at school. Her poems have been published in Landfall, Climate and The Press. Although she wrote articles for the Auckland Weekly News as a teenager, her first literary cheque (for ten shillings and sixpence) was for preparing and reading book reviews on the 3YA Radio Children’s Programme for Arini Grennell when she was 11 years old. Her first book of poetry, describing a spiritual journey in the Ureweras, Te Rangianiwaniwa (The Rainbow), was published in 1988 by Nag’s Head Press. Subsequent publications have been: Follow the Sun (1992, Hazard Press) and Looking Up (1997, The Caxton Press).

In 2000, she co-wrote Grace Butler (a New Zealand landscape painter) with Neil Roberts for the Robert McDougall Art Gallery and published by the Christchurch City Council. In 2002, her poetry featured in With Our Eyes Open (Chrysalis Seed Trust), Big Sky (Shoal Bay Press) and in My Paradise: New Zealand writing about gardens (2003, Hazard Press).

As a fifth generation New Zealander, whose family arrived in 1838, Jennifer has been tamed by her one-acre paddock on the Port Hills. At her property, Fermoy, she has established a garden of peace with historic shrubs, trees and flowers. This has been a nurturing refuge for many writers, artists and her family over the years.

Barnes, Caroline

Caroline Barnes

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD02

1. The Seamstress
2. Himself
3. The Annunciation
4. Cambridge
5. The Turkish Baths at Moana Pool
6. Song of the Favourite
7. Homecoming
8. Fourteen
9. The Park
10. Very Post Xmas

Bio / Bibliography:

Education:
1988 BEd Hons (Fine Arts & Ed) University of Cambridge, UK
2002 Masters Degree in English Studies (completing dissertation)

Writing:

1990 - 2003 Poetry and fiction published in NZ & UK literary magazines:
Landfall, SPORT, Metro, Takahe, Poetry NZ, NZ Poetry
Society, Otago Anthology, Glottis, Smiths Knoll, Dream, Boomer

1993 Guest writer: playwriting course, University of Otago, NZ

1994 Play, Awake in the Dark , presented at OCEANIA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL: Maidment Theatre, Auckland, NZ, directed by John Howard of Sydney Theatre Company, Australia

1995 Play, A Fantasy Hamster, Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, NZ

1996 Radio play, Felicity, Radio NZ

1997 Novella, Days, published by Hazard Press, Christchurch, NZ
(Winner of Hazard Press/Quote Unquote Short Fiction Award )

1998 Radio play, Sad Heron, Radio NZ (repeat broadcasts 1999, 2003)

2001 Radio play, Gray's Sequence , Radio NZ

2003 Feature Film Script shortlisted (from 187 scripts) by New Zealand Commission - Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga - for NZ Screen Writers Lab

Art Catalogues:

1997 Retrospective Exhibition for Eion Stevens (dealer galleries Dunedin/Auckland)
2003 Bluebeard's Castle – Nigel Buxton (Christchurch Art Gallery)

Workshops:

2000 Writing Radio Drama Books and Beyond, Christchurch

Residencies:

2000 Writer-in-Residence Rangi Ruru Girls' School, Christchurch
2001/02/03 Writer-in-Residence Christ's College, Christchurch

Tutor:

2002 Creative Writing University of Canterbury (Continuing Ed)

Works in Progress:

2003/4 Collection of poems
Novel

Baysting, Arthur

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (c.1970)]

Arthur Baysting

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 1

A Tale for Gene
Hawks
Black Swans

LP 3, side 2

On Taming a Dragon
The Oddsock Plan
The Day the Toads Came to Town
The Lion

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 12

No Trouble
For Damon, a Three-Year-Old
I knew This Girl
Black Swans
Love Poem
The Mayor Wants Everyone to Join a Club
Tahunanui Beach
Hawks
Crisis
Cliché
A Tale for Gene
The Day the Toads Came to Town
A Poem about Not Being Able to Write a Poem
The Oddsock Plan
On Taming a Dragon
The Crazyman
The Lion

Bascand, Helen

Helen Bascand

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD03

1. Hello
2. The waiting room
3. Fractals / wild haunting order
4. Just this
5. Since then
6. ‘Bless me Father – I have sinned’
7. Goddess
8. The seven sisters
9. Sea
10. Enter your password
11. The devil and the jester
12. Garden peas – Pisum Sativum
13. Tuesday’s postcard
14. Grandmother’s plate
15. Deep digging
16. Departure
17. Grave secrets

Bio / Bibliography:

Helen Bascand is retired, lives in Christchurch NZ and enjoys the active poetry community.

She has written poetry from her early days but more seriously since the 1980’s. By 1994, Helen had developed an interest in the haiku form. She was the winner of the haiku section of the 2000 NZPS International Poetry Competition. She is also represented in the Christchurch Haiku & Haibun Anthology – listening to the rain – published in 2002.

Her poetry has appeared in The Press and several poetry magazines and anthologies, and her first collection of poetry, Windows on the morning side –which includes a haiku & senryu section— was published by Sudden Valley Press in 2001.

Helen’s background training was in primary education and when her mothering years were nearly completed, she returned to train for Education of the Deaf – an excellent preparation for what became her later work with the Special Needs Library.

BIBLIODATA

Periodicals:

1992 – 1999 SPIN
1997 – 2001 winterSPlN
1995 Printout
1997, 99, 2001 Takahe
1998 Australian Poetry Awards
1999, 200, 03 The Press
2001 windows on the morning side – Helen Bascand, Sudden Valley Press
2002 Poetrix 18 Western Women Writers — Australia
2003 JAAM 19
2001 Haiku Frogpond (America) –Still (Eng) –Famous Reporter (Aust)
2002 Haiku listening to the rain The Small White Teapot Haiku Group

Anthologies:
1996 Voiceprints 2 Canterbury Poets Collective
1996 Throwing the Words The Airing Cupboard
2000 Half Light and Half Wind
1994, 96, 97, 99, 2000, 01, 02 NZ Poetry Society Anthologies
2000 Something between breaths Patricia Prime
2000 All Together Now Valley Micropress
2002 Big Sky Shoal Bay Press
2003 My Garden, My Paradise Hazard Press

Bernhardt, Jeanne

Jeanne Bernhardt (b. 1961)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD03

1. Spellbound
2. Aquarium NYC Photograph
3. The Hope Letter
4. Recall the Chimes
5. East Caesar Chavez
6. Anna Dancing at Backbeach
7. Sad Tree
8. The Last Ice
9. The Snow Poems
1) Not As It Was
2) The Destiny Dream
3) Alters Course
4) Bewilderments of the Eye
5) A Forest Cut
6) Da
10. Your Self of Lost Ground
1) Slaughter
2) Your Self of Lost Ground
3) Abandon What You Wished For
4) A Day Beginning
5) This Unhappiness Grows No Life
6) No Bough Left
7) Roll up this Gypsy Bed
8) To Paint a Fan

Bio / Bibliography:

Jeanne Bernhardt Born 20 June 1961
Poetry & short fiction published since end 1970’s

Louis Johnson writers Bursary – 1997
Grants from Dunedin Arts Board

Books available in Australia & New Zealand
Published by HeadWorX, wtgn NZ

baby is this wonderland avail City Lights, SF USA

incomplete Fine Arts degree – University of New South Wales
(1991 to 1993) 6 months to go (one day maybe)

Currently working on new collection of poetry and a longer fiction (novella)

Living in the desert, Pueblo, New Mexico.

Bibliography:

Dereliction – 1996
Vorare Lacuna – 1997
baby is this wonderland – January 1999
the snow poems / your self of lost ground – 2002

Baxter, James K.

[Photograph: NZ Book Council]

James K. Baxter (1926-1973)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 2

Poem in the Matukituki Valley

LP 3, side 1

Prospector

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 24

Poem in the Matukituki Valley
Prospector
The Fallen House

Beynon, Claire

Claire Beynon

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD03

1. The Mystery Sonatas
2. Poem For a Dying Fish
3. About Blue
4. Jade
5. United Nations – domestic-style.
6. Out For Dinner
7. Consider …
8. There is a Place
9. Mopani Worms
10. Out the Black Window

Bio / Bibliography:

Claire Beynon was born in South Africa and studied Fine Arts there and in London (additional subjects included History of Art, English and Latin.). She and her family discovered New Zealand in 1994, and have lived and worked in Dunedin these past eight and a half years. A fulltime artist, Claire works in a studio overlooking the Otago harbour and peninsula. Her first solo exhibition was held in 1983 and she has exhibited regularly since then, with shows in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, the United Kingdom and the People’s Republic of China. She also writes poetry and short stories. These have been published in journals, newspapers and collections here and overseas. Her poem "The Mystery Sonatas" won first prize in the 2002 New Zealand Poetry Society's International Competition. "Point of Entry" was runner-up in the 1999 Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition, "Introducing Deirdre" was highly commended in the 2000 Takahe Short Story Competition and "Trapeze Artist" was short-listed in the South Island Writer’s Association short story competition in 2000. She is currently working on Fire, a first collection of poetry and images.

To date, poems and short stories have appeared in:

The Christchurch Press, Tandem Press’s 100 New Zealand Short Short Stories IV, Glottis, The Sunday Star Times, The Whole Wide World, Tapping the Tank and A Savage Gathering (New Zealand Poetry Society’s Anthology 2000, 2001 and 2002), Double-jointed (a collaborative book of ‘dual’ poems by Jenny Powell-Chalmers and ten other South Island poets: published by Inkweed, 2003), Chicken Soup, USA, The Song of the Belly-button Man (an Artsenta production of images and poems 2002), the forthcoming anthology of Dunedin-based poems (suggested title ’Words with Robbie Burns,’ Otago University Press, 2003).


A member of the New Zealand Society of Authors and the New Zealand Poetry Society, Claire also belongs to two active writing groups in Dunedin and has participated in various performance-related events. These include Glottis’ informal Monday evening poetry sessions (Fuel and Arc cafés, Dunedin), and performances as part of the Otago University’s Woman’s Festival 2001 and the United Nations Dialogue Amongst Nations 2001.

Collaborative projects include:

Cover and artwork for Glottis 5 (2001)
Cover and inside artwork for Poles Apart, an autobiographical book of prose and poetry by Dunedin author Graham Bishop. (Published by Steele Roberts Ltd., Wellington and launched in December 2000.)
Cover and artwork for poetry collection A Talent for Flight by Otaki poet Glenda Fawkes. (Published in March 1999 by Steele Roberts Ltd., Wellington.

Bishop, Graham

[Photograph: Julie Leibrich]

Graham Bishop (b. 1938)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD03

1. Stone Walls
2. Soot
3. A Matter of Opinion
4. Dual Diagnosis
5. Keep the Change
6. On Returning to Dunedin in Spring after a Long Absence
7. Fathers
8. A Little Girl Told Me
9. Childhood
10. On Flagstaff Hill
11. Initiation
12. Do You Remember …?
13. Virtue Rewarded
14. A Game of Chance
15. How to Talk to Policemen

Bio / Bibliography:

Graham Bishop was born in Wellington in 1938. When he was in his early teens, he moved with his mother and sister to Dunedin, where he attended Otago Boys’ High School and the University of Otago. After graduating with a Masters’ degree in geology, Bishop was accepted into the Ph.D. programme at the University of Sydney. However, for ‘various reasons’, he did not stay to complete his degree, instead returning to New Zealand to work as a field geologist with the New Zealand Geological Survey. In 1967, he enrolled in a doctorate at the University of Otago.

In the two decades after graduation, Bishop published numerous scientific papers (many drawing upon field work he had undertaken for his Ph.D.) and continued working with the Geological Survey for which he surveyed and produced maps. He also published several books relating to his interests in mountaineering and glaciology.

When he was 45, Bishop was diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder. In the early 1990s, he descended into a prolonged manic depressive cycle, during which time he was admitted several times to psychiatric hospitals. He also suffered a major stroke. It was at this time that he first began seriously writing poetry. In the mid to late 1990s, following divorce and redundancy, he was admitted once more to Waikari psychiatric hospital, near Dunedin. His book, Poles Apart: a Touch of Madness (2000), documents his response to these experiences, combining prose autobiography, poetry, and case history with a personal critique of the psychiatric establishment.

Bibliography:

Poles Apart: a Touch of Madness (with artwork by Claire Beynon; Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2000)

Bornholdt, Jenny

Jenny Bornholdt (b. 1960)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD04

1. Scrub cut [1-2]
2. Poem
3. Rodnie and her bicycles
4. Weighing up the heart
5. In love
6. The loved one
7. Bus stop [1-2]
8. Wedding song
9. Red lorry yellow lorry
10. The journey
11. Annunciation (after Simone Martini)
12. Romance
13. Tornado
14. Weather
15. Then Murray came
16. Please, pay attention (after Carlos Drummond de Andrade)

Bio / Bibliography:

Jenny Bornholdt was born in Lower Hutt in 1960, and educated at Victoria University and Wellington Polytechnic. An interest in writing led her to take Bill Manhire’s creative writing course at Victoria University in 1984, after which her work started to appear regularly in literary journals. In 1988, her first collection of poetry, This Big Face, came out with Victoria University Press. Since then, there have been five further collections (all with Victoria University Press), several pamphlets, and a selected works: 1997’s Miss New Zealand. She has also been an anthologist, co-editing (with Gregory O’Brien) a collection of New Zealand love poems, My Heart Goes Swimming (Godwit, 1996) and the 1997 Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Writing in English, with O’Brien and Mark Williams. In 2002, she was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship to Menton. Bornholdt lives in Wellington, where she has worked as a journalist and copywriter.

Biblio:

This Big Face, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1988
Moving House, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1989
Waiting Shelter, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1991
How We Met, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995
Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1997
Caravan (with Gregory O’Brien; illustrated by Noel McKenna), Wellington: Animated Figure, 1998
These Days, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2000
The Way: A Poem, Wellington: Fernbank Studio, 2000
Ode to the Little Hotel, Wellington: Fernbank Studio, 2002
Summer, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2003

Edited:

My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems (with Gregory O’Brien), Auckland: Godwit, 1996
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (with Gregory O’Brien and Mark Williams), Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997

Bland, Peter

[(November, 2003)]

Peter Bland (b. 1934)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD04

1. Death of a Dog
2. The Nose
3. The Happy Army
4. A Sonnet for Exiles
5. Mr Maui at Buckingham Palace
6. Mr Maui at the Marbella Beach Club
7. Mr Maui on the Way to the Film Studio
8. Letters Home — New Zealand 1885 [1-7]
9. Let’s Meet …
10. St Kevin’s Arcade – Auckland [1-4]
11. Shopping with Brigitte Bardot

Bio / Bibliography:

Peter Bland was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, in 1934 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1954. He worked with the NZBC to establish some of New Zealand’s first arts and social commentary programmes. In 1964 he was a co-founder of Wellington’s Downstage theatre and its artistic director from 1964 to 1968. He was closely associated with the Wellington group of poets, which included Louis Johnson, James K Baxter, and Alistair Campbell, helping to edit the literary magazine Numbers His first collection of poems My Side of the Story was published by Mate Books in Auckland in 1964 and won a Melbourne Festival Literary Award.

In 1969 Peter Bland returned to the UK on an Arts Council Drama Fellowship to work at the Bristol Old Vic. In the 70’s and 80’s he established himself as a regular West-end actor, appearing in numerous comedies and as a frequent guest artist on current UK TV shows.

In 1976 he published his first UK collection Mr Maui with London Magazine Editions. It won a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He published two further collections with London Magazine Editions, Stone Tents (1981) and The Crusoe Factor (1985). In 1977 he was given a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry by the British Society of Authors.

Peter Bland returned to live in New Zealand in 1984 and to star in the film Came a Hot Friday, for which he won a GOFTA Best Film Actor Award. He published his Selected Poems with John McIndoe and a further collection Paper Boats also with John McIndoe. In 1998 Carcanet Press in the UK published his new Selected Poems. His most recent collections are Let’s Meet and Ports of Call, both published in 2003 by Steele Roberts in Wellington. His collection of verse for children The Night Kite is due from Mallinson Rendel in March 2004, and his memoir Sorry, I’m a stranger here myself from Random House in August 2004. He is represented in all the major New Zealand Poetry Anthologies, and several in the UK, including The Penguin Book of the 20th Century in Poetry. He lives in Auckland and is married with three children and seven grandchildren.

Brasch, Charles

[Photograph: NZ Book Council]

Charles Brasch (1909-1973)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 1

Ben Rudd
from In Your Presence

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 3

Ben Rudd
from In Your Presence:
I read your signature
Morepork, Shrewd Sentry Owl

Bridge, Diana

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Diana Bridge (b. 1942)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD04

1. Chrysanthemum
2. Transparent evening
3. Images for sages
4. The drums
5. At the entrance to the Lu Tomb
6. The root
7. Sister section
8. Lotus pond
9. The true tourist

Bio / Bibliography:

Born, Hampshire, U.K., 28/12/1942. Brought up in New Zealand. Schooling: Queen Margaret College, Wellington. Qualifications: M.A. (Hons.) in English Language and Literature, Victoria University of Wellington; Ph.D., Australian National University. Dissertation on a formative period of Chinese classical poetry. She has also attended the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and the Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing.

Worked as a diplomatic trainee in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Married Nicholas Bridge and accompanied him on postings to London, Singapore, Beijing, Canberra, Hong Kong, New Delhi and Taipei. Three children: two daughters and a son.

Work opportunities limited by a travelling career but has taught in the Chinese Department of Hong Kong University; and, on an occasional basis, at Victoria University. Some reviewing.

She has returned to Wellington permanently and is currently in receipt of a grant from Creative New Zealand, which she is using to work on a fourth book of poems.

Publications:

Landscape with Lines (Auckland University Press, 1996)
The Girls on the Wall (Auckland University Press, 1999)
Porcelain (Auckland University Press, 2001)

Brown, Bernard

Bernard Brown (b. 1934)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD05

1. Promises
2. Treats
3. Waters at Baiae
4. Just Looking
5. Hearth and Cloister
6. What a Garden’s For
7. Love Suite Love
8. Amends
9. Photo Opportunity: with Lines to a Mother
10. “Today” in Two Parts - on my birthday in 1973 and on my birthday in 2002
11. Groundmark
12. Thoughts on a Fine Day
13. Nervous Service
14. Old Michael Mac and the Red Revolution
15. Ruby Anniversary
16. Two Lives and Others Too
17. Canal Knowledge
18. Respects
19. To Light Applause

Bio / Bibliography:

BORN:

20 April 1934 at Hadleigh, Suffolk, England.

EDUCATED:

Sudbury Grammar School; Leeds University (LL.B. (Hons) 1955); University of Singapore (LL.M. 1963); Fellow of the Legal Research Foundation, 1992; Honorary Life Member, Criminal Bar Association of New Zealand 2001; University of Auckland Distinguished Teaching Medal, 1995.

WORK:

Agricultural Labourer; Railways Goods Porter; Flying Officer RAF (Sword of Honour, 1957) - service in Singapore, Malaya and Borneo. Lecturer in Law, then Associate Professor - Singapore University, Auckland University; ANU Foundation Fellow in Papua New Guinea 1966-1969; Auckland University (again). Retired 1999. Then part-time teacher, Auckland University, to present.

HONOURS:

New Zealand Order of Merit (Officer), 2000.

APPOINTMENTS:

(extra to ‘work’). 1970-1980, Member of the Criminal Law Reform Committee (Department of Justice, New Zealand); 1969-present, Member of the Council, Legal Research Foundation Inc.; 1970-present, Treasurer, PEN (NZ) Auckland Branch (now New Zealand Society of Authors (inc. PEN (NZ)), also 1970-81, Secretary, Auckland Branch.

PUBLICATIONS:

Up To Nowadays, Auckland: Acorn Press, 1973.
Victims and Traders, Wellington: Mallinson Rendell, 1980.
Surprising the Slug, Queen Charlotte Sound: Cape Catley, 1996.
Unspeakable Practices, Auckland: Cape Catley, 2001.
“Respects” in Best New Zealand Poems 2001 (ed. Manhire, International Institute of Modern Letters, and Creative NZ) 2002.

Brenstrum, Erick

Erick Brenstrum (b. 1951)

Contents

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 7

Ruamahunga
Southern Coast
Ceremonial
Late April
Autumn
Sunday
Two Poets
Poem
Cycle
Definition

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD04

1. How the Oyster
2. High Country
3. To Soledad
4. Midwinter Festival Cuzco June 1978
5. The Wind
6. Every Small Bird
7. Instincts Gather
8. More Stories from Books
9. Summer
10. Language
11. As the Seed
12. Fish of Love
13. Wave-runner
14. Choices
15. Makara: A Small Feast
16. Santiago 22 Years On
17. Minute by Minute
18. Raptor
19. Flight

Bio / Bibliography:

Born New Plymouth 1951. Grew up in Wellington. BSc in Maths and Physics from Victoria University. Has worked as a weather forecaster with New Zealand Meteorological Service since 1974, apart from a year travelling in South America in the late seventies. Writes a column on meteorology in New Zealand Geographic magazine and continues to publish poetry here and there.

Biblio:

Poetry - Thalassa , published 1982.
Non-fiction - The New Zealand Weather Book, published 1998

Brown, Diane

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Diane Brown (b. 1951)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD05

1. Eight Stages of Grace
2. Postcards from Auckland
3. the poem as fart
4. Presumptuous advice to the reluctant crone
5. She asks me to write about sex
6. the woman in this poem
7. running in the family
8. Before the Divorce we go to Disneyland
9. a walk in Hone Heke country
10. left to the imagination
11. under the trees
12. in the absence of my lover
13. who makes the first move?
14. First morning Albert Park: 4.30am
15. follow me if you will
16. a proposal of sorts
17. Poem in the Matukituki Valley
18. on leaving
19. My last born goes to the circus without me
20. Sutherland St, early morning
21. After nine days up north

Bio / Bibliography:

Diane Brown lives in Dunedin. Her first book Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland, a combination of prose and poetry, was published by Tandem Press in 1997. She won the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 1997 and has received grants from Creative New Zealand.

Her novel If The Tongue Fits was published by Tandem Press in 1999 and was in the Top 20 of the Listener Women’s Book Festival in 1999. Her verse novel Eight Stages of Grace was published by Vintage in 2002.

Her short stories and poems have appeared in a variety of magazines including Landfall, Metro, North and South, the Listener, Poetry NZ and Quote Unquote. She has won poetry competitions in New Zealand and England. She is Chair of the Otago-Southland Branch of the Society of Authors and teaches a five-month full-time fiction writing course at Aoraki Polytechnic.

Books:

Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland, Tandem Press Auckland, 1997
If The Tongue Fits, Tandem Press, 1999
Eight Stages of Grace, Random House, Auckland 2002

Awards:

Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship 1997
NZSA Jessie Mackay Award Best First Book of Poetry Montana Book Awards 1997 for Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland,
TOP 20 Listener Women’s Book Festival 1999 for If The Tongue Fits

Brown, James

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

James Brown (b. 1966)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD05

1. The Year of the Mountain
2. A Great Day
3. Little things, lend me thy strength
4. Loneliness
5. Out of Eden
6. All We Have
7. Soup From a Stone
8. The Radiant Fuel
9. The Crewe Cres Kids
10. Learning to Read
11. The Day I Stopped Writing Poetry

Bio / Bibliography:

James Brown was born in 1966 and lives in Wellington with his partner and two children.

His poems have been widely published in magazines in both New Zealand and Australia. He is a past winner of the Takahe Poetry Competition and a former Editor of the literary magazine Sport.

His first book, Go Round Power Please, was shortlisted in the 1996 Montana New Zealand Book Awards and won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry. His second collection, Lemon, was published in 1999, Elizabeth Knox calling it ‘possibly the year’s best New Zealand book’. His third collection, Favourite Monsters, was published to acclaim in 2002.

Brown has held the 1994 Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary, a 2000 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship and the 2001 University of Canterbury Writer in Residence Fellowship. In 2002, Go Round Power Please and Lemon were shortlisted in the inaugural Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters.

Bibliodata:

Go Round Power Please, Victoria University Press, 1995
Lemon, Victoria University Press, 1999
Instructions For Poetry Readings (with Dr Ernest M. Bluespire), Braunias University Press, 2002
Favourite Monsters, Victoria University Press, 2002

Brunton, Alan

[Photograph: nzepc]

Alan Brunton (1946-2002)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 1

The Man on Crazies Hill

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 10

Another Year of Unwanted Days
I am afloat, my eyes …
Getting Back the Bitter & the Sweet
Rimbaud’s Passport
Liberty Bus
The Man on Crazies Hill

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD05

1. Transformed Urbs / The days of

Bio / Bibliography:

Alan Brunton was born in Christchurch in 1946, and educated at Hamilton Boys’ High School, the University of Auckland (where he took a BA) and Victoria University, Wellington, from which he graduated MA in English in 1968. He had begun to submit poetry to campus publications while still a student, and in 1969 founded Freed - the journal of the Auckland University Literary Society - five issues of which appeared between 1969 and 1971. (Brunton co-edited the first two.)

Freed combined poetry, editorials, and ‘manifestos’ with graphics, fonts and layout that reflected contemporary fashions in art and advertising. Brunton’s manifestos advocated the negation of dominant New Zealand poetic and formal traditions (particularly the ‘literary nationalism’ associated with Allen Curnow) while acknowledging both the influence of poets such as Creeley, Olson and Zukofsky, and the relevance of the youth culture and ‘new social movements’ of the late 1960s.

Freed was in many ways a coterie publication, reflecting the attitudes and aspirations of a group of self-consciously ‘young’ Central Auckland poets: ‘[t]he space was common, geographically contained; sociologically coherent. You could cover the whole scene walking.’ Among its targets were a particular set of poetic ‘elders’, several of whom taught in the University of Auckland English Department.

In the early 1970s, Brunton left New Zealand, visiting Sydney, India, and then Europe, where his first collection, the pamphlet Messengers in Blackface, was published in 1973. Returning to New Zealand the following year, he and partner Sally Rodwell established the avant-garde theatre troupe ‘Red Mole’, for which Brunton would eventually write over forty playscripts. (In the late 1970s, Brunton also co-edited the literary magazine Spleen.) Red Mole performed extensively in New Zealand between 1974 and 1978, and from 1979-87 were based variously in New York City, London, Amsterdam and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Returning to New Zealand in 1988, Brunton based himself in Wellington, where he founded Bumper Books, and worked as an editor, drama teacher and arts community worker, while regularly contributing poetry and criticism to literary magazines. In 1998, he was writer-in-residence at the University of Canterbury. Brunton died in June 2002, while touring in Amsterdam with Red Mole.

Biblio:

Messengers in Blackface, London: Amphedesma Press, 1973
Black White Anthology, Christchurch: Hawk Press, 1976
Oh, Ravachol, New York: Red Mole, 1978
And She Said, New York: Red Mole, 1984
New Order, New York: Red Mole, 1986
Day for a Daughter (with Sally Rodwell), Wellington: Untold Books, 1989
Slow Passes, 1978-88, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1991
Ephphatha, (with Richard Killeen), Auckland: Workshop Press, 1994
Romaunt of Glossa: a saga, Wellington: Bumper Books, 1996
Years Ago Today: language & performance, 1969, Wellington: Bumper Books, 1997
Moonshine, Wellington: Bumper Books, 1998
Ecstasy, Wellington: Bumper Books, 2001
Fq, Wellington: Bumper Books, 2002

Edited:

Freed, nos. 1-2
Spleen, nos. 1-8 (with Martin Edmond, Russell Haley and Ian Wedde)
Writing Island Bay, Wellington: Bumper Books, 1997
Big Smoke: New Zealand poems 1960-1975 (with Murray Edmond and Michele Leggott) Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2000
The Brian Bell Reader, Wellington: Bumper Books, 2001

Bullock, Owen

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Owen Bullock (b. 1967)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD06

1. something here
2. tunnel music
3. choosing
4. the patients
5. in our town
6. ample alone
7. untitled music
8. Summer, Hauraki Plains
9. Poem for Martin Wilson
10. country man confused in Auckland for a day
11. suits in Seoul
12. everybody knows

Bio / Bibliography:

Owen Bullock came to New Zealand in 1989, from Cornwall, via Wales. He’s done that list of bizarre occupations, never really settling to anything. As well as poetry, he writes songs and stories and his haiku and related forms have been published in many countries. He enjoys reading his poems at gatherings in Auckland, Tauranga and Waihi (where he lives) and has performed at the Flaming Fringe in Hamilton. Acting and music are other passions. He is married to Cathie, also a poet, and they have three children.

Campbell, Meg

[Photograph: Patricia Reesby]

Meg Campbell (1937-2007)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD06

1. Fish
2. After Loving
3. Aftermath
4. Brown Peahen
5. Bee of Anger
6. Journeys
7. Disturbances

Bio / Bibliography:

I was born in 1937 in Palmerston North, the second of five children. At 8 yrs I was sent to boarding school in Takapuna, Auckland. After a year I returned home to Palmerston North and attended a small, private school called Carncot until I was sent to Wellington to boarding school. Continued an interest in English and Drama while at Samuel Marsden from '51 to '53.

I continued my love of the theatre, joining "Manawatu Repertory" back in Palmerston North. In Jan. 1956 I attended a Summer Drama School at Massey College and then headed for Wellington to become a student of Rhona Davis.and sit A.T.C.L. hoping to head for London, and Drama School, there.

In 1958 I married the poet Alistair Campbell and with him had three children, Aurelian, Josephine and Maringikura.

Bibliography:

The Way Back, Te Kotare Press, 1981.

A Durable Fire, Te Kotare Press, 1982

Orpheus and Other Poems, Te Kotare Press, 1990

How things are, (with three other poets), Whitireia Publishing and Daphne Brassell Associates Press,1996

The Better Part, Hazard Press, 2000

Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (b. 1925)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 1

Against Te Rauparaha

LP 3, side 2

At a Fishing Settlement
The Gunfighter
The Cromwell Gorge

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 5

Hut near Desolated Pines
At a Fishing Settlement
The Return
The Cromwell Gorge
Against Te Rauparaha
Why Don’t You Talk to Me
The Gunfighter
Home from Hospital
Small Town Blues
Love Song for Meg

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD06

1. Lest We Forget
2. Stretcher Bearer
3. Gallipoli Peninsula
4. Breath of Life
5. Words and Roses
6. Warning to Children
7. Sgt. Jack Tainui – Maori Friend
8. Maori Battalion Veteran

12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):

Gallipoli Peninsula

Bio / Bibliography:

Poet and novelist; born Rarotonga, 25 June 1925; son of John Archibald Campbell and Teu (née Bosini) of Tongareva; married (1) Fleur Adcock; 2 sons (diss. 1957) (2) Meg Andersen, 1958, 1 son, 2 daughters. Lives at Pukerua Bay in a house looking out towards Kapiti Island, with his wife, Meg, who is also a poet, and five springer spaniel dogs (including the ghost of KooShe).

Education: Otago Boys' High School; Victoria University College, B.A., 1953; Wellington Teachers' College, 1952-53; Teacher Newtown School, 1954; Editor, School Journal, 1955-1972; Senior Editor, N.Z. Council for Educational Research, 1972-87.

Bibliodata:

Guest writer, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, 1978; N.Z. Book Award for Poetry, 1982; Arts Council Scholarship in Letters, 1990; Writer's Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington, 1992; Pacific Islands Artist Award, l998; Hon. D.Litt.; Victoria University, 1999.

Published Verse includes Mine Eyes Dazzle, 1950; Sanctuary of Spirits, 1963; Kapiti : Selected Poems, 1972; The Dark Lord of Savaiki, 1980; Soul Traps, 1985; Stone Rain: The Polynesian Strain, 1992; Gallipoli and Other Poems, 1999; Maori Battalion, 1999; Poets in Our Youth, 1992. Published Fiction includes The Frigate Bird, 1989; Sidewinder, 1991; Fantasy with Witches, 1998. Memoir; Island to Island, 1984. Published Drama includes Sanctuary of Spirits (radio) 1963; The Proprietor (radio) 1964; When the Bough Breaks (stage), 1970. T.V. documentaries : Island of Spirits, 1973; Like You I'm Trapped, 1975; Mine Eyes Dazzle, 2003.

Chan, David

David Chan (b. 1960)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD06

1. Ivory ball
2. 100 year old egg
3. Grandfather
4. Memory-fish
5. Poem for five years
6. A poem you will never read
7. In this city

Bio / Bibliography:

David Chan was born in Auckland in 1960. His work has been published in various Australian journals and the 1995 collection, From Yellow Earth to Eucalypt. His poem ‘100 Year Old Egg’ placed second in the 1993 Australian National Radio Poetry Prize.

Featured in:

Picador New Writing, 2 (1994)
From Yellow Earth to Eucalypt: Stories and Poems from China and Australia, Melbourne: Longman, 1995

Chad, Tony

[Photograph: HeadworX]

Tony Chad

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD06

1. A Possum's Tail
2. My First Home
3. The last waltz
4. Letter from Ireland
5. Hirondelles
6. Ricardo
7. In case you were wondering ….
8. Snake
9. Six
10. Mastering the Arts
11. How it is
12. Welcome to LA
13. S E P A R A T I O N
14. A Coming Of Age
15. Playing the game
16. Clearing out the Closet
17. After

Bio / Bibliography:

Tony Chad is a full time musician and poet living in the country just outside Upper Hutt. He is the managing editor of SPIN magazine and editor of monthly poetry magazine Valley Micropress whose first anthology All Together Now!was released last year. He is well known for his poetry and original songs, and for performances with his Celtic band Finn McCool who have appeared at Summer City, Orientation and Toast Martinborough as well as many Irish Pubs & Clubs from Wellington to Taranaki and Hawkes Bay. Tony performs solo or with Scottish fiddler Alistair Cuthill, has performed music and poetry at folk clubs all around the North Island plus solo excursions to the South Island and has presented workshops to adults and to school-children in both islands. He has organised and performed in two celebrations of Montana Poetry Day in Upper Hutt, along with performers such as Sam Hunt, James Brown, and Lewis Scott.

Tony has appeared many times in the Wellington Fringe Festival - twice in Stand Up Poets, three times in Welcome to the Flat Earthers and a Band of Poets, once in Upper Hutt's Kool Store and once in Upper Hutt Comes to Town. His work has appeared in several editions of JAAM and Poetry NZ as well as many anthologies and magazines in New Zealand and overseas. Much of his work targets people in business, aiming to question how we sell our time and why, and what becomes of our creativity and our sensitivity in the process. After 20 years corporate computing he is enthusiastically embracing a life after corporate death.

Sun over Kapiti (1995) album of original music: CD.

Tigers, Wild Pigs & Possums ISBN 0-473-05031-5. (Aug 1997)

Caselberg, John

John Caselberg (1927-2004)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD06

1. Invocation
2. from The Sound Of The Morning [9,12]
3. The Wake [1-9]

Bio / Bibliography:

John Caselberg was born at Wakefield, a small farming locality near Nelson, in 1927. His father, who had been a rural G.P., left the family for Australia the same year, and Caselberg moved with his mother and sisters to Nelson. He attended Bishop’s School and Nelson College, and had early contact with Nelson’s painting community. (These links were to prove enduring. Caselberg’s wife, the painter Anna Caselberg, was the daughter of Nelson artist Tosswill Wollaston, whom Caselberg had met while still a teenager.) After leaving school, Caselberg enrolled at the University of Otago to study medicine. During his time in Dunedin, he befriended the poet James K. Baxter, and made his first attempts at writing fiction and poetry. In 1948, during a brief stay in Christchurch, Baxter introduced him to the painter Colin McCahon. Caselberg and McCahon became frequent correspondents, and Caselberg was to take photographs of McCahon’s paintings with him to show art dealers in Europe during his O.E. in 19501.

Returning to New Zealand in 1951, Caselberg worked briefly on the state hydroelectric scheme in central Otago before moving to Christchurch in early 1952 to train as a teacher. Now living in the same city, he and McCahon quickly extended their friendship into a working relationship. They co-founded the arts broadsheet Issue, the first number of which (June 1952) contained a sequence of seven poems by Caselberg, accompanied by a McCahon linocut. A second issue appeared in September, but a third - which was to contain a jointly-authored treatise ‘On the Nature of Art’ - was never published.

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Caselberg had been writing poetry and submitting it for publication in local journals. In 1954, his first volume of poetry, The Sound of the Morning, appeared under the Pegasus imprint; it contained the seven poems published earlier in Issue 1. The following year, Caselberg shifted to Auckland, where he continued writing - a short story, ‘Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani’, won Landfall’s Prose Award for 1957. That same year, McCahon produced a series of lithographs based on the text of the poem ‘Van Gogh’ (from Sound of the Morning), and Caselberg had published the first of eight critical articles on McCahon’s work.

In 1965, the Nag’s Head Press published Caselberg’s Six Songs and The Wake. ‘The Wake’ was a poetry sequence written on the death of Caselberg’s dog, Thor, the text of which McCahon incorporated into his 16-panel painting, ‘The Wake’ (1958). In 1961, after their marriage, the Caselbergs moved to Dunedin, where Caselberg took a Burns Fellowhip at the University of Otago. During his time there, he wrote the first in a series of verse dramas on nineteenth-century Maori and Pakeha relations, Duaterra, King. Four further plays in the sequence were written over the next two decades. In 1973, Caselberg’s travel writing and art criticism (including extracts from the unpublished ‘On the Nature of Art’) was collected in Chart to My Country. 1989’s Lines contains material from Caselberg’s previously-written verse dramas; Matins & Other Verse followed in 1992. In 2002, Caselberg’s biography of R.A.K. Mason, Poet Triumphant, (completed some years earlier) appeared with Steele Roberts. Peter Simpson’s Answering Hark (Nelson: Craig Potton, 2001) documents the Caselberg/McCahon relationship, and reproduces much unpublished material.

John Caselberg died in Dunedin on April 16, 2004.

Bibliography:

Sound of the Morning (Christchurch: Pegasus, 1954)
Six Songs and the Wake (Christchurch: Nag’s Head Press, 1965)
Lines: Scenes and Passages from Verse Dramas (Christchurch: Nag’s Head, 1989)
Matins: & Other Verse (Christchurch: Nag’s Head, 1992)

Chan, Jill

[Photograph: Mateo Chan, Jr.]

Jill Chan (b. 1973)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD07

1. The First Patient
2. The Smell of Oranges
3. Earth
4. Tug
5. Imagination
6. The Acts
7. First Day
8. Reckoning
9. Work of Art
10. Turning
11. A Death
12. Holding Up
13. The Bone
14. Corners
15. Afterimage
16. Watermark
17. The Gift
18. The Conversation
19. The Conversation 2
20. Quantum
21. Trust
22. Occupation
23. Density
24. What We Covered
25. Weight
26. Dexterity
27. Faith
28. Momentary States of Darkness

Bio / Bibliography:

Jill Chan was born and grew up in Manila, Philippines. She migrated to New Zealand in 1994.

Her poems have been published in JAAM, Poetry New Zealand, Brief, MiPOesias, foam:e, Tears in the Fence, Blue Fifth Review, Asia and Pacific Writers Network, Otoliths, and some other magazines.

She was among the new and emerging writers mentioned in PEN American Center's year-end members survey for 2005.

She is the editor of Poetry Sz: demystifying mental illness, and Numinous: Spiritual Poetry, and co-editor of Best New Poems Online.

Publications:

• The Smell of Oranges (Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2003)
• Becoming Someone Who Isn't (Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2007)
• These Hands Are Not Ours (Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2009)

Chanwai-Earle, Lynda

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Lynda Chanwai-Earle (b. 1965)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD07

1. To Hastings with love
2. Details from a personal journal
3. Gasp

12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):

Gasp

Bio / Bibliography:

Born in London 1965 she spent a large part of her childhood in Papua New Guinea. She holds a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts and a Post Graduate Diploma in Drama from Auckland University. In 1994 Lynda published her first book of poetry, Honeypants with Auckland University Press. In 1995 Honeypants was selected for the Penn Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards. Lynda worked as an actor and script co-ordinator with Jim Moriarty’s theatre group Te Rakau Hua O Te Wao Tapu from 1995 to 1999, touring and creating theatre throughout schools and prisons around Aotearoa.

Ka-Shue (Letters Home) is New Zealand’s first contemporary theatre piece about the Chinese community, a solo show written and performed by Lynda Chanwai-Earle, based on her own family background as a Eurasian and a Chinese New Zealander. Ka-Shue was published in 1998.

"Ka Shue gives voice to the experience of a young Chinese New Zealand woman ... the staging is simple and effective ... the delight of a girl discovering her Chinese heritage is beautifully communicated ... a family saga of blockbuster proportions.”

The Dominion, 1997

Critically acclaimed, Lynda’s most recent stage production Fire Mountain (Foh-Sarn) is a play about young and new immigrant Asians;

“… (Fire Mountain) explodes into violent action and a fiery, tragic climax… a stunningly beautiful production …”
Susan Budd,
The NZ Herald 31.10.00
“… Ground-breaking theatre …”
The Listener, 29.10.00

Lynda is currently the Writer in Residence with Capital E, The National Children’s Theatre, developing her next play Monkey. She lives and works in Auckland as a Reporter/Director for the television programme Asia Down Under (TVNZ).

Cochrane, Geoff

Geoff Cochrane (b. 1951)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD07

1. The fate of an …
2. Degrees
3. Spindrift Sunday
4. Missing the Big Match
5. Disposable Camera
6. Effects
7. 1988
8. Zigzags
9. Query
10. Atlantis

Bio / Bibliography:

I was born in 1951 in Island Bay, Wellington, and educated at S Patrick’s College, Cambridge Tce. My first little books were private-press productions; my current publishers are Thumbprint Press and Victoria University Press. I’ve contributed verse and stories to JAAM, Takahe, PRINTOUT, The Listener, Landfall and SPORT. My poems appear in many recent anthologies.

Novels:

Tin Nimbus (VUP, 1995)
Blood (VUP, 1997)

Collected Stories:

Brindle Embers (Thumbprint Press, 2002)

Books of Verse:

Images of Midnight City (Hauraki Press, 1976)
The Sea the Landsman Knows (Voice Press, 1980)
Taming the Smoke (Grape Press, 1983)
Kandinsky’s Mirror (Rat Island Press, 1989)
Aztec Noon (VUP, 1992)
Into India (VUP, 1999)
Acetylene (VUP, 2001)
Nine Poems (Fernbank Studio, 2002)

Charman, Janet

Janet Charman (b. 1954)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD07

1. the alarm
2. i dig out the couch
3. a barbecue remembered in the bath
4. they say that in paradise
5. ready steady
6. night wear
7. waiting for the kettle
8. going to work
9. saying goodbye to the garden
10. foreword
11. starring in the middle of the night
12. laundry
13. but she wanted one
14. kicked up
15. cuckoo in the nest
16. dairy man
17. injection
18. the V. Dub

Bio / Bibliography:

Janet Charman has published five collections of poetry. Her most recent is: Snowing Down South, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. She is an Auckland teacher.

Monographs:

Snowing Down South, Poems, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.
Rapunzel Rapunzel, Poems, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999.
End of the Dry, Poems, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995.
Red Letter, Poems, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1992.
Two Deaths in One Night, Poems, Auckland: New Women’s Press, 1987.

Cooke, Kay McKenzie

Kay McKenzie Cooke (b. 1953)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD08

1. Stuart Street
2. a weasel crosses
3. there’s no lie
4. kaka beak red
5. Te Wae Wae Bay
6. tongue-tied
7. feeding the dogs
8. the rifle
9. the triangle shop idea might even work
10. teased hair and perfect eyesight
11. heat and cold
12. ‘I love this farm so much I could pat it’

Bio / Bibliography:

Kay McKenzie Cooke was born in Tuatapere, Southland 1953 and spent her formative years on farms in Southland. She is of Scottish, Irish, English and Maori descent. She has lived in Dunedin for twenty years. She is married to Robert and they have three sons. Kay also has a daughter and grand-daughter. Her first book of poems called feeding the dogs was published by University of Otago Press in 2002. Kay is a trained Primary and Early Childhood Teacher and works part-time in the Education Sector.

Bibliography:

All of the poems I read are in my first collection of poetry called feeding the dogs which was published by University of Otago Press in 2002.

I have had haiku published in the Second NZ Haiku Anthology ed. by Cyril Childs.

I have also had poems published in various lit. magazines including Glottis, Sport, JAAM, Poetry NZ. I have had work published in ezines S.O.R. and Trout.

Cummings, James Moeroa

James Moeroa Cummings

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD08

1. No. 4
2. Letter Home
3. Surfin TV Blues
4. Skid and the Rainbow
5. The Kind of Kindness that Kittens can do Without
6. Miles Dead Blues
7. Saxmansmacksoundaround
8. As Time Goes By
9. Mahalia Sings to my Troubled heart
10. No. 3
11. The Moment
12. Jason’s Song
13. The Unemployed Angels

Bio / Bibliography:

James Moeroa Cummings lives in Christchurch.

Curnow, Allen

[Photograph: Marti Friedlander]

Allen Curnow (1911-2001)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 2

Lone Kauri Road
Two Pedestrians with One Thought
Magnificat

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 1

Lone Kauri Road
Friendship Heights
An Upper Room
A Dead Lamb
A Framed Photograph
Two Pedestrians with One Thought
Magnificat
A Four Letter Word
A Hot Time
Anytime Now

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD08

1. Gare SNCF Garavan
2. The Kindest Thing
3. Narita
4. Do Not Touch the Exhibits
5. Things to Do with Moonlight [1-3]
6. Looking West, Late Afternoon, Low Water
7. Early Days Yet [1-3]
8. The Scrap-book [1-3]
9. The Bells of Saint Babel’s [1-5]
10. Ten Steps to the Sea [1-10]
11. Fantasia and Fugue for Pan-pipe [1-4]
12. House and Land
13. The Unhistoric Story
14. The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
15. A Leaf
16. The Loop in Lone Kauri Road

Bio / Bibliography:

Allen Curnow was born in Timaru, New Zealand, in 1911. He was educated at the Universities of Canterbury and Auckland. After a period of study for the Anglican ministry, he worked for the Press newspaper and the News Chronicle (London) before teaching at the University of Auckland (1951-76) as lecturer and associate professor of English. His first book of poems appeared in 1933; it was followed by many others. He edited anthologies, including The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (1961), continued to write poems, plays and criticism and travelled widely. He read and recorded his poems for major universities and the Library of Congress, for the BBC and Australian radio, as well as for the Poetry Society (London), the Cambridge Poetry Festival, the Toronto International Festival of Authors, the Voice Box and the International Poetry Festival at Southbank Centre. He held the Litt.D. degrees from the University of Auckland and (honoris causa) Auckland and Canterbury. He received the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry seven times. He was made a CBE in 1986, was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1989, the ONZ in 1990 and the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry in 1992. He died in 2001.

Select Biblio:

Valley of Decision, Auckland: Auckland University College Students’ Assoc., 1933
Enemies: Poems, 1934-36, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1937
Not in Narrow Seas: Poems with Prose, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1939
Island and Time, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1941
Recent Poems, (with A.R.D. Fairbum, Denis Glover, and R.A.K.Mason), Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1941
Sailing or Drowning, Wellington: Progressive Publishing Society, 1944
Poems, Jack without Magic, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1946
At Dead Low Water and Sonnets, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1949
Poems, 1949-57, Wellington: Mermaid Press, 1957
A Small Room with Large Windows: Selected Poems, London: Oxford University Press, 1962
Trees, Effigies, Moving Objects: A Sequence of Poems, Wellington: Catspaw Press, 1972
An Abominable Temper and Other Poems, Wellington: Catspaw Press, 1973
Collected Poems, 1933-73, Wellington: Reed, 1974
An Incorrigible Music: A Sequence of Poems, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1979
Selected Poems, Auckland: Penguin, 1982
You Will Know When You Get There: Poems 1979-81, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1982
The Loop in Lone Kauri Road: Poems 1983-85, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1986
Continuum: New and Later Poems, 1972-88, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1988
Selected Poems, 1940-89, London: Penguin Books, 1990
Penguin Modern Poets (with Donald Davie and Samuel Menashe), London: Penguin Books, 1996
Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1997
The Bells of Saint Babel’s, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2001

Curnow, Wystan

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Wystan Curnow (b. 1939)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD09

1. from From the Art Hotel

Bio / Bibliography:

I have published 3 books of poetry:

Back in the USA, Wellington, Black Light press, 1989;
Cancer Daybook, Auckland, Van Guard Xpress, 1989,
Castor Bay, proses and pictures, Auckland, Holloway Press, 1996.

My work has been included in 11 anthologies and appeared in 24 literary magazines in New Zealand, the UK and USA. I was a co-founder and editor of SPLASH magazine. 1984-1987.

I have myself or with others written or edited 25 books and exhibition catalogues, curated 24 exhibitions mainly in New Zealand, but also in the US, Britain and Holland. I have presented 39 conference papers in 8 countries. I co-organized the conference, Is Art a European Idea? for the 1994 Wellington International Festival of the Arts. I have co-organised a panel on Cartography and contemporary art for the 2003 International Conference on the History of Cartography at Harvard. My work has been translated into Japanese, French, Dutch, Croatian, German, and Russian.

Davidson, Lynn

Lynn Davidson

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD09

1. Alan Paints the House
2. Cape Gooseberries
3. Greenstick Fracture
4. How to Eat Cape Gooseberries
5. Hunger
6. Loving Words
7. Poem for Tamara
8. Salt Works
9. Tuning Fork

Bio / Bibliography:

Lynn Davidson has written a book of poems, Mary Shelley’s Window, published by Pemmican Press in 1999 and a novel, Ghost Net, published by Otago University Press in 2003. Lynn has had many of her short stories and poems published in literary journals and magazines, most often in Landfall and Sport. Her short stories have also been produced for national radio. In 2002, Lynn was part of the Porirua Poets exhibition at Pataka, Porirua Museum of Arts and Cultures - an exhibition of poems with photographs.

Lynn lives with her family on the coast north of Wellington.

Dane, Peter

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Peter Dane (b. 1921)

Contents

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 9

Three Poems from the German of Christian Morgenstern
1. An Aesthetic Creature
2. The Fence
3. The Sigh
Just to Show What He Could Do
Sunday Afternoon
Parhelion – on Van Gogh’s Night Piece with Stars
Dutch Interior on Peter Jansen’s Woman reading
Sunset at Muriwai
Muriwai
The Parting
After the Parting
Unfinished
The Spider & the Fly
Heard melodies are sweet …

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD09

1. I Love Two Women
2. Make Me Gay
3. The Life We Share
4. Post Mortem
5. The Albatross Is Dead
6. The Play Has Ended
7. To Be Carefree
8. The Curtain Rises
9. Learning To Trust
10. So Near so Far [1-3]
11. Is It Time?
12. Can These Bones Live?
13. Reel
14. The Long and the Short of it
15. Cruel Memory [1-2]
16. Illimitable
17. Disclosure

Bio / Bibliography:

Born in Berlin in 1921, of mixed German and Jewish parentage. Fled to England in 1939. Interned as an enemy alien in 1940 and transported to Australia. Returned to England in 1942. Married Gabriele Herrmann in 1945, when he was a stoker and she was a qualified nurse. Studied Mathematics and Philosophy, then Greek, Theology and Literature. Graduated from London University in 1952. Taught at Makere in Uganda for eight years, and from 1962 to 1986 taught English Literature at Auckland University. His passion for Art in its various forms, in the early ‘70s joined forces with a passionate concern for the environment, which sustains all life and art.

Publications:

Twenty-four Sonnets, Auckland: The Lowry Press, University of Auckland, 1982.
The Albatross is Dead: Sixty Sonnets, Auckland: Hudson Cresset, , 2000.
‘Dutch Interior’, Poetry NZ 5 (ed. Riemke Ensing) 1992.
‘Hate’, Listener, 12 October 2002
‘Air and Angels’, Southern Review, Vol. 17, No. 3, November, 1979 (prize-winning essay)
‘Rosemary Menzies’, Creative Forum, Vol. 11, Nos. 1-2, Jan-June, 1998 (eds. R.K. Singh and U.S. Bahri).

de Montalk, Stephanie

Stephanie de Montalk (b. 1945)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD09

1. Cha-Cha-Cha
2. Tree Marriage
3. Dog on a Mountain
4. In this Country
5. Ode to Small Things She Loved Which Moved Away
6. Common Oak, Europe
7. Northern Spring
8. Concrete
9. Epilation of Eyelash

Bio / Bibliography:

I was born in 1945. I live in Wellington and have four adult children.

I am a registered nurse. I have also worked as a documentary film maker, video censor and warden of two university halls of residence. Until recently I was a member of the New Zealand Film and Literature Board of Review. In 2002 I convened the second semester Poetry Workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University.

I was educated at the Wellington Hospital School of Nursing, and Victoria University where I was joint winner of the Prize for Original Composition in 1997 and from which I graduated in 2000 with an MA (with Distinction) in Creative Writing.

I started writing in 1997. That year I was joint winner of the Novice Writers’ Award in the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Memorial Awards.

Since then I have had short fiction published in Landfall and read on National Radio; and poetry published in numerous magazines and anthologies in New Zealand and abroad, including: Sport, Landfall, NZ Listener, Poetry NZ (featured poet issue XX), JAAM, Turbine, Southerly (Australia), London Magazine, Mutes & Earthquakes (ed. Bill Manhire) (under Miller), Spectacular Babies (ed Bill Manhire and Karen Anderson), Doors and Jewels in the Water (ed. Teny Locke), Big Weather (selected by Greg O’Brien and Louise White), Essentials of English Language 2 (Terry Locke and Mark Wilkins), Eleven Books from the Rita Angus Cottage (printed and published by Brendan O’Brien); and read on National Radio’s Nine to Noon.

In 2000 my first collection of poetry, Animals Indoors, was published by Victoria University Press. The following year it won the Jessie McKay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the NZ Montana Book Awards.

In 2001 my memoir/biography Unquiet World: the life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk was published by Victoria University Press. It will be published in Poland, in Polish by Jagiellonian University Press, Cracow, in 2003. My Stout Research Seminar, ‘Superbug Rumour and Truth’ on the writing of this biography will be published in the Journal of NZ Studies, 2003.

In 2002 my second collection of poetry, The Scientific Evidence of Dr Wang was published by Victoria University Press.

Davis, Leigh

Leigh Davis (b. 1955)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD09

1. Section 1: Labour Friday, Coastal Classic (from The Office of the Dead)
2. Section VIII: The Other Day (from The Office of the Dead)

Bio / Bibliography:

Leigh Davis lives in Auckland. He is an investment banker. He writes sometimes, about art, and he writes poetry, as well. His published works include Willy's Gazette (1983), Earth-Bound Ghosts (1998), General Motors (2000), and The Book of Hours (2002). The last three were multi-media works.

Website: www.jackbooks.com

Dickson, John

[photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

John Dickson (b. 1944)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD10

1. To start with
2. plainsong
3. spinster
4. roadside
5. her words, her vision mainly
6. a glimmering of grand ultimate fist
7. memory
8. the fortune teller
9. sleeper

Bio / Bibliography:

Born 1944 in Milton, South Otago. Lives in Dunedin. Burns Fellow 1988. University of Waikato Writer-in-Residence 2000.

Books:

What happened on the way to Oamaru, Christchurch: Untold, c.l986.
Sleeper, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998.

Audiocassette:

‘butan’. Christchurch: New Edge, c.1991.

Dowrick, Lee

[Photograph: NZ Book Council]

Lee Dowrick (b. 1931)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD10

1. Writing to My Father
2. His Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland 1902 – 1988
His Majesty’s Theatre (performance version)
3. A Manhunt … By Design … Fifties Style
4. The Bay
5. No More Settlers Allowed
6. You Went to China
7. News Item
8. Off-target
9. A Different Garden
10. Footprints
11. Swindled
12. Little Cleopatra, 1941
13. Dangerous, 1936

Bio / Bibliography:

Lee Dowrick lives and writes in Devonport on Auckland’s North Shore.

She grew up with her four brothers and a sister in Waipukurau, Hawke’s Bay. Stock Sale days on Tuesdays, empty paddocks with creeks, trees and bridges along the Tukituki river set their scene.

In the fifties she changed trains at Palmerston North and headed for the Big Smoke, Auckland, a culture shock that was alive with jobs and adventure. Freelance participation in feature and story writing for newspapers and magazines(plus putting personal pomes in people’s pay packets to relieve office routines), led to an established interest as a writer. This she picked up again when she ‘retired’ in 1991. She now joins in and organizes poetry workshops and readings for festivals, shows and private functions. She also works along with a special language teacher in workshops for children to write, perform and publish their own poetry in small booklets.

Bibliodata.

Some of Lee‘s poetry comes from her country childhood during wartime and from life in the city in the fifties. Current social comment and politics lurk within her current work. Some is written specifically for performance.

Her poems have been placed in several New Zealand and Australian competitions and published in Printout, Spin, Poetry NZ, Takahe, NZ Listener and Glottis, and contemporary collections Doors, Jewels in the Water and Something Between Breaths. She has recorded selected poems for the NZ National Archives.

Her first collection, based on working in the public service during Rogernomics,
What’s left in politics? with drawings by Kate Wells, was self published in 1993.
In 1998 - That was Then – was published by Christian Gray NZ
and in 2001 - I run in my stilettos was published by Bookcaster Press. There were interviews and readings from these on National Radio.

Lee has read some of her short stories on Access Radio, a NZ science fiction story "Three is a Cloud" is anthologised in Star Songs, some have appeared in magazines. A short short story in The Third Century, Tandem Press 1999.

She has also won some competitions for children’s poems and her work has been published in Allsorts magazine, School Journals, Another 100 NZ poems for Children, NZ Memories and broadcast on National Radio children’s programmes.

Poetry collections:

That was Then (Christian Gray NZ) 1998
I run in my Stilettos (Bookcaster Press) 2001.

Dolan, John

[Photograph: nzepc]

John Dolan (b. 1955)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD10

1. Response to a letter to the Otago Daily Times
2. Moscow 1993
3. Shelley Nameroff
4. "God forgives me."
5. Let's Clarify About the Trees
6. The Death of Justice Gibson (A Ballad)
7. The Very Moment When The Camera Left Me
8. Bats and Spiders
9. Waterloo

Bio / Bibliography:

John Dolan has a Ph.D in rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley and has held various jobs, including attack-dog handler at a truckyard in Oakland. He has published poems in many US literary journals, and his first collection, Slave, won the Berkeley Poetry Prize in 1988. He lived in Dunedin for ten years where he lectured in the English Department at Otago University. Aside from two books of poetry, he has published many poems, reviews and articles in New Zealand. After working in Moscow for at time as co-editor and journalist of the infamous newspaper the eXile, he has now settled in Vancouver.

Books of Poetry:

Slave. Berkeley: Occidental Press, 1988
Stuck Up. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995
People with Real Lives Don’t Need Landscapes. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003

Books:

Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth. London/New York: MacMillan/St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Like a Man: Masculinities in New Zealand (co-edited with Hugh Campbell and Robin Law) Auckland: Dunmore Press, 1999.
Writing Well, Speaking Clearly. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1996 (Revised Second Edition 1999)

Doyle, Mike

Mike (Charles) Doyle (b. 1928)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 1

At Karekare Beach
One’s Once One
The Journey of Meng Chiao

LP 3, side 1

Growing a Beard
The Tree

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 18

The Journey of Meng Chiao
At Karekare Beach
Hello, is that you, this is me
Four Notes from a Dream Book
Victor Coleman for Gift of Light …
Shaving
Growing a Beard
One’s Once One
The Tree
Stone by Stone
Discovery