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