Gadd, Bernard

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Bernard Gadd (1935-2007)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD14

1. Graduation, 2001
2. Sir George Grey debates stones
3. Dear British Queen
4. Slaves
5. Samoa, 1900
6. Hokitika, 1868
7. Official Report on the Troy Incursion
8. Ye Lord Protector’s testament
9. The atlas of deprivation, 2001
10. The way of our wars, Omarunui, 1866
11. Remuera hakari, 1844
12. Lindisfarne elegy, 793
13. Catullus aging

Bio / Bibliography:

Born 1935, Hamilton, NZ. High school English teacher then ESOL tutor, now retired. Married, two grown-up children, two grand daughters. Published in most NZ literary magazines and some overseas. Also a small press publisher and anthologist. Co-editor of Kokako, an annual magazine of short poems. Died in Auckland on December 11, 2007.

Edited (poetry or including poetry):

• Pacific Voices, anthology, Stockton House, 1977
• Other Voices, new writers and writing in NZ, anthology of prose and verse, Brick Row/Hallard 1989
• Other Voices 2, anthology of prose and verse, Brick Row/Hallard press, 1991
• Catching the light, poems from eight writers, Brick Row/ Hallard press, 1992
• Real Fire, 60s and 70s poetry, Square One Press, 2002

Poetry:

• Melissa, Hillary Press, 1980
• Childsong & Other Verses, Hallard, 1981
• Two poems, Hallard 1981
• More than writing on the wall, poems for high school students, Kahurangi, 1983
• Light, poetry with prints by Ruth Davey, Hallard Press, 1985
• Oracle Bones, selected poems, Hazard Press, 1992
• Pity Mr Hash, satirical political verses with art by Anna Tarm, Hallard Press, 1995
• Catullus at the iron gate, Hallard 1995
• Too Right Mate, satirical political verse with John O'Connor, Hallard Press, 1996
• Stepping Off from Northland, selected poems, Sudden Valley Press, 1997
• shadow-patches, haibun with Janice Bostok and Catherine Mair, Hallard Press, 1998,
• 1 imagines serifim (mini verses), Hallard Press, 1999
• Signs of the new right (mini verses), Hallard, 2000
• Prognostications of the apricot, The Poets Group, 2000
• Our Bay of Ensigns & other ‘race’ relations, historical verse, HeadworX, 2001
• Debating Stones, new poems, Sudden Valley Press, 2002

Poems included in (a selected list):

• Poets for Africa, World harvest (USA)
• Watch her colours fly, poems about peace and freedom, ed Johanna Mary in association with the Women's International League peace and friendship, Trapeze press, 1991
• White Feathers, poetry and peace, eds Locke, Low, Winslade, Hazard Press, 1991
• Wrapper, an anthology of prose and verse, ed Michael O'Leary, Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop Ltd, 1992
• New Zealand Haiku Anthology, ed Cyril Childs, NZ Poetry Society, 1993 - 3
• Below the Surface, words and images in protest at French testing at Mururoa, ed A Hall, Vintage (Random House) 1995
• The Second New Zealand Haiku Anthology, edited Cyril Childs, 1998, The New Zealand Poetry Society
• Haiku sans frontieres, une anthologie mondiale, ed Andre Duhaime, Les Editions David, 1998
• Rainbows, poems for years 9-10 (forms 3-4) students in the Pacific, selected by Cliff Benson, University of the South Pacific, 1998
• 100 New Zealand poems for children, ed Jo Noble, Random House, 1999
• Doors (poetry anthology for senior for secondary schools)
• Jewels in the water (poetry anthology for junior high school students), both edited by Terry Locke, 2000