Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive

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[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 Many of the details recorded here are therefore significantly out of date.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)

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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)

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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

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[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

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[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

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[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.

2007-12-02T08:30:00.011+13:00

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

2007-12-02T08:30:00.010+13:00

[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

2007-12-02T08:27:00.003+13:00

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

2007-12-01T08:30:00.005+13:00

[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

2007-12-01T08:29:00.003+13:00

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

2007-12-01T08:28:00.008+13:00

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

2007-12-01T08:28:00.007+13:00

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

2007-12-01T08:27:00.007+13:00

[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

2007-12-01T08:27:00.006+13:00

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

2007-12-01T08:26:00.004+13:00

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.

2007-12-01T08:26:00.003+13:00

[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

2007-12-01T08:25:00.006+13:00

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

2007-12-01T08:25:00.005+13:00

[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

2007-12-01T08:24:00.005+13:00

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

2007-12-01T08:24:00.003+13:00

[(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

2007-12-01T08:23:00.001+13:00

[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

2007-12-01T08:22:00.010+13:00

[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

2007-12-01T08:22:00.009+13:00

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

2007-12-01T08:22:00.008+13:00

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

2007-12-01T08:21:00.007+13:00

[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

2007-12-01T08:21:00.006+13:00

[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

2007-12-01T08:20:00.002+13:00

[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

2007-12-01T08:19:00.002+13:00

[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

2007-11-30T09:04:00.006+13:00

[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

2007-11-30T09:04:00.005+13:00

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

2007-11-30T09:03:00.009+13:00

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

2007-11-30T09:03:00.006+13:00

[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

2007-11-30T09:03:00.005+13:00

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

2007-11-30T09:02:00.008+13:00

[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

2007-11-30T09:02:00.005+13:00

[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

2007-11-30T09:01:00.006+13:00

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

2007-11-30T09:01:00.004+13:00

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

2007-11-30T08:59:00.002+13:00

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

2007-11-30T08:58:00.005+13:00

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

2007-11-30T08:58:00.004+13:00

[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

2007-11-30T08:57:00.004+13:00

[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

2007-11-29T08:03:00.007+13:00

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

2007-11-29T08:03:00.006+13:00

[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).

Davis, Leigh

2007-11-29T08:02:00.007+13:00

Leigh Davis (1955-2009)

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

de Montalk, Stephanie

2007-11-29T08:02:00.006+13:00

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.

Dickson, John

2007-11-29T08:01:00.008+13:00

[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

2007-11-29T08:01:00.007+13:00

[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

2007-11-29T08:01:00.006+13:00

[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

2007-11-29T08:00:00.002+13:00

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

Duncan, Grant

2007-11-29T07:59:00.003+13:00

Grant Duncan (b. 1960)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD10

1. L'Orto Botanico
2. Cocktail
3. Airmail from Tuscany
4. The Flying Vixen [recording truncated]
[4a. The Flying Vixen - YouTube version: complete]
5. The melancholy seaman
6. Homage to a dead poet
7. An undecidedly spring day
8. Desire
9. Lunch with my father
10. Western
11. Nocturne
12. Crepusculum
13. Fingered
14. Precious

Bio / Bibliography:

Grant Duncan was born in Hastings in 1960, and attended Raureka Primary School and Heretaunga Intermediate. After one year at Hastings Boys’ High School (from which he was expelled on his last day for refusing to cut his hair), the family moved to Auckland, where his father built a house at Beachlands. Grant completed his high-school education at Pakuranga College where he acquired a love of Shakespeare, Renaissance art and Asian cannabis. He attended Auckland University, completing a BA in psychology in 1980, an MA in 1984 and a PhD in 1989, and was a regular contributor to poetry readings in Auckland throughout those years. His daughter Pansy was born in 1983. In 1990, he spent a year in Italy, attending the University of Siena. He began a lectureship in social sciences at Massey University’s new Albany campus in 1993. Grant was a member of the group that intiated and published the literary journal Printout from 1991 to 1997. He edited issues 1 and 9. In recent years, he has had little involvement in literary life in this country.

Some memorable publications include:

Poems:

‘A lesson in light’, Sport 5 (1990) p. 120.
‘An expedition to explore the interior’, Kunapipi 12(1) (1991) pp. 70-75 (University of Aarhus).
‘Airmail from Tuscany: To Pansy Duncan’, Sport 6 (1991) p. 139-141.
‘L’Orto Botanico’, ‘Cocktail’, ‘The Flying Vixen’, ‘Renaissance naturalist’, Landfall 179 (1991) pp. 317-320.
‘The melancholy seaman’, ‘Moving star 1’, Snafu 2 (1993) p. 42.
‘Airmail from Tuscany: A picture postcard’, Poetry NZ 8 (1994) p. 36.
‘Homage to a dead poet’, Ariel : a review of international English literature 26(2) (1995) p. 40 (University of Calgary).
‘Some angels’, Southerly 56(4) (1996) p. 57 (University of Sydney).
‘Palfrey’s rubbish’, Spin 39 (2001), pp. 22-4.
‘Epidaurus’, Complete with Instructions (2001), p. 15 (ed. D. Howard; Firebrand).
‘Western’, brief #24 (2002), pp. 15-16.

Volumes of verse:

Dreams of falling (Punga Press, 1981)
Away with words (ESAW, 1986).

Essays:

‘The Narration of Pain and Suffering: Culture, meaning, healing’, Complete with Instructions (2001), pp. 15-21 (ed. D. Howard; Firebrand).
‘Nationhood and writing: Why poetry doesn’t matter anymore’, Poetry NZ 24 (2002), pp. 80-86.

Eager, Michael

2007-11-28T08:43:00.003+13:00

Michael Eager

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD10

1. Amsterdam today
2. Van Gogh's Car
3. I Am ...
4. Sometimes
5. These days / that fever
6. Endings
7. Letter to London
8. The Firewood Tree
9. That was when
10. Housing Corp Road
11. When
12. Arum Lilies
13. The Cast

Bio / Bibliography:

Mike Eager is a poet who values the performance of his work as highly as publishing. He toured schools and universities as part of Poetrycorp in the late '80s. In 1991 he toured Britain and Ireland with his first book, Warning. On his return he did a solo Arts Council sponsored tour of Northland and published his second book of poems, Living First Class in a Third World Country. He often links poems as narrative sequences, including chant and song for variation of rhythm and emotion.

Books Published:

Warning: Poems, Mike Eager/ Alex Staines. Rush Hour Press 1990
Living First Class in a Third World Country, Mike Eager. Rush Hour Press 1993

Edmond, Lauris

2007-11-28T08:42:00.004+13:00

Lauris Edmond (1924-2000)

Contents

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 4

A Mixed Neighbourhood
Commercial Traveller
Town
Before a Funeral
Leaving
A Visit
Piano Practice
Facing Facts
Scar Tissue
Mister Dog
Making Good
The Party
The Rabbit
Rimu

Frances Edmond [photograph: Jan Kemp]

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD11

[read by Lauris Edmond]:

1. Yellow-eyed Penguin
2. In Position
3. Body Language
4. Autumn in Canada
5. Taking Down Christmas Decorations
6. Hymn to the Body
7. Take One

[read by Frances Edmond]:

8. Late Song
9. The Eighth Decade
10. Afternoon at Akatarawa
11. Being There
12. Generation Gap
13. Driving home, Sunday night
14. Lunch in the city
15. Looking like Veronica
16. Geography
17. This year 1000 Americans will live to be over 100
18. Insomniac
19. Evening in April
20. Cucumber: a short essay

Bio / Bibliography:

Lauris Edmond (1924-2000) grew up in Greenmeadows and spent the first part of her adult life in rural communities. Her husband was a teacher in country high schools and during the 1950's and 1960's she brought up their six children. In 1975 she began to write seriously and her first book In Middle Air (1975) won the PEN Best First Book Award. Some sixteen volumes of poetry followed, ending with the posthumous collections Late Song and Carnival of New Zealand Creatures (2000). Amongst the awards and fellowships were: the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship (1981), Commonwealth Poetry Prize (1985), OBE for services to poetry and literature (1986), Lillian Ida Smith Award for poetry (1987), Hon D. Litt (Massey University, 1988), and many others. She read her work widely both in New Zealand and overseas. Her poetry won her not only critical acclaim but reached out to many different people throughout the world.

Other writing included a novel, a sequence of plays for radio, a number of short stories as well as essays and reviews and she edited a volume of A.R.D. Fairburn's letters (1981). Her life as a poet, mother, wife, teacher and editor has been recorded in three volumes of autobiography which were collected into one volume as An Autobiography in 1994. Her commitment to the writing community is reflected in her work for New Zealand Books, the review periodical founded by the Peppercorn Press in 1990.

Poetry:

In Middle Air, Pegasus Press, 1975
The Pear Tree, Pegasus Press, 1977
Salt from the North, Oxford University Press, 1980
Wellington Letter: A Sequence of Poems, Mallinson Rendel, 1980
Seven (with lino cuts by Jim Gorman), Wayzgoose Press, 1980
Catching It, Oxford University Press, 1984
Selected Poems, Oxford University Press, 1984
Seasons and Creatures, Oxford University Press and Bloodaxe Books, 1986
Summer near the Arctic Circle, Oxford University Press, 1988
New and Selected Poems, Oxford University Press and Bloodaxe Books, 1991
Five Villanelles, Peppercorn Press, 1992
Scenes from a Small City, Daphne Brasell Associates, 1994
Selected Poems, Bridget Williams Books, 1994
A Matter of Timing, Auckland University Press, 1996 (published by Bloodaxe Books as In Position)
50 Poems: A Celebration, Bridget Williams Books/Peppercorn Press, 1999
Late Song, Auckland University Press, 2000
Carnival of New Zealand Creatures, Pemmican Press, 2000

Autobiography:

Hot October, Allen and Unwin, 1988; Bridget Williams Books, 1989
Bonfires in the Rain, Bridget Williams Books, 1991
The Quick World, Bridget Williams Books, 1992
An Autobiography, Bridget Williams Books, 1994, 2001

Frances Edmond, writer and actress, is Lauris Edmond's daughter and Literary Executor. She trained at Toi Whakaari/New Zealand Drama School and first performed her mother's work at Circa Theatre in 1977. During Lauris' lifetime she and Frances collaborated on many projects including a one woman play that Lauris wrote for her daughter. Frances currently works as a screenwriter.

Edmond, Murray

2007-11-28T08:42:00.003+13:00

[Photograph: nzepc]

Murray Edmond (b. 1949)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD11

1. Catch
2. Gone Dogs
3. The Ballad of the Eighth Day of the Week
4. Elegy for Mama
5. Venice Unrevisited
6. The Ballad of the Penguin
7. The Cold War
8. Ballad of Child Rearing
9. Pass the Past
10. Inland
11. Sleeping Rabbit
12. Landrynka
13. Jungle
14. Voyager
15. Starfish Streets

Bio / Bibliography:

Born Hamilton 1949.
Educated at the University of Auckland (1968 – 1971) where edited 2 issues of The Word is Freed and worked as Literary Editor for Craccum, the student newspaper.
In the 1970s and 1980s worked as an actor, writer and director for various companies – the Living Theatre Troupe, Beggar’s Bag Theatre, Theatre Action, The Half Moon Theatre (London), Town and Country Players and the Mercury Theatre.
Had extensive involvement in the 1980s and 1990s in Playmarket’s Playwrights Workshops as an actor, director and dramaturge as well as a member of the organising committees.
Dramaturgy includes David Geary’s Lovelock’s Dream Run, Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis’s Krishnan’s Dairy, The Candlestickmaker, and The Pickle King, Toa Fraser’s No 2 and Paradise, and Witi Ihimaera’s Woman Far Walking.
Author of 9 books of poetry and editor of 3 anthologies. The most recent of these are, respectively, A Piece of Work (Hawai’i: Tinfish P, 2002) and Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960 – 1975 (Auckland: Auckland UP, 2000) with Alan Brunton and Michele Leggott.
Doctoral thesis was a history of New Zealand experimental theatre from 1962 to 1982 entitled Old Comrades of the Future.
Presently teaches drama, theatre and poetry in the English Department at the University of Auckland.

Biblio:

A Piece of Work. Hawai’i: Tinfish P, 2002. A book-length poem.
Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960 – 1975. Ed. with Alan Brunton and Michele Leggott. With introductory essay, "Poetics of the Impossible." Auckland: Auckland UP, 2000.
Laminations . Poems. Auckland: Auckland UP, 2000.
Names Manes. Poems: Artist's Chapbook with Anna Miles, 1996.
The Switch. A book-length poem. Auckland UP, 1994.
Australia New Zealand Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Chang Hua. NZ section ed. Murray Edmond; Aust. section ed. John Tranter. Peking, 1993.
From The Word Go. Poems. Auckland UP, 1992.
The New Poets: Initiatives in New Zealand Poetry. Anthology. Ed. with Mary Paul. Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1987.
Letters and Paragraphs. Poems. Christchurch: Caxton, 1987.
End Wall. Poems. Auckland: Oxford, 1981.
Patchwork. Poem sequence. Day's Bay: Hawk Press, 1978.
Entering the Eye. Poems. Dunedin: Caveman, 1973.

Eggleton, David

2007-11-28T08:41:00.001+13:00

[Photograph: F. J. Neuman]

David Eggleton (b. 1952)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD12

1. A Pacific Islander Reflects in Cuba Street
2. Grass
3. Place
4. Poem for the Unknown Tourist
5. Teen Angel
6. The Bush Paddock
7. Turangawaewae
8. Uruwhenua / Gateway to the Land
9. Deep South

Bio / Bibliography:

New Zealand Performance Poet

David Eggleton began reciting his poetry in the New Zealand rock music scene of the early eighties, and he has since toured on the cabaret circuit in Australia, the United States, Europe and Britain, where he won the London Time Out Street Entertainer of the Year Award for Poetry. These days he regularly performs his poetry in schools, universities, pubs, clubs and cafes all over New Zealand.

His first poetry collection, South Pacific Sunrise was co-winner of the PEN Best First Book of Poetry Award in 1987.

A 1996 video: For Arts Sake - Art and Politics - Performance Poet David Eggleton won First Prize for TV Arts Documentary in the Qantas Media Awards 1997.

His recordings include the CDs: Baxter (2000), 1 track; Seeing Voices (1999), 3 tracks; and Poetry Demon (1993), 17 tracks. He is has completed a new CD, Versifier (out on Yellow Eye Records, 2002) ; a 12 minute digital video of the poem "Teleprompter"; and a 5 minute video of the poem "The Cloud Forest".

He writes freelance arts criticism for magazines and newspapers (including Art New Zealand, Architecture New Zealand and Urbis), and has had an essay included in the award-winning book on Ralph Hotere: Black Light, as well having essays included in a number of other publications. He has won the Reviewer of the Year Award four times for his book reviews.

He has collaborated with photographer Craig Potton in the production of two New Zealand scenic books: an anthology of landscape writing - Here on Earth (1999) (finalist in the Montana Book Awards), and a sequence of essays entitled Seasons - the New Zealand Year (2001).

He is currently writing a series of books on New Zealand cultural history. The first one is: Ready to Fly - the Story of New Zealand Rock Music (2003).

Ensing, Riemke

2007-11-28T08:40:00.002+13:00

[Photograph: James Ensing-Trussell]

Riemke Ensing (b. 1939)

Contents

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 11

Moon Myth
House & Garden
A Pleasant Enough Fairytale & Why Not?
Two Poems on Samuel Beckett:
Broken Flowers & a Torn Rainbow
Kite Flying with Words
Poem
Some Moon Poems I
Some Moon Poems II
Some Moon Poems III
Some Moon Poems IV

Aoteaora NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD12

1. Morning Glory
2. Love Affair
3. Another Exile Paints a Spring Portrait of Katherine Mansfield
4. Blood Falls
5. Day of Remembrance: The Ancestors
6. Finding the Ancestors
7. from: In Camera [11]
8. from: Poems for China [T'ai Chi]
9. Crossings
10. War – Childhood
11. Shoah
12. Transport
13. Parables with a Four-Coloured Bowl...
14. The Painter's Studio at Tarawera
15. Tarawera: Wairua (essence)
16. Birds Passing the Night
17. Te Maunga Tapu
18. War – Biography
19. Life
20. Schierbeek boven Howick

12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):

War - Childhood

[Photograph: Simone Oettli (c. 1975)]

Bio / Bibliography:

Riemke Ensing was born in Groningen, The Netherlands, in 1939. With her parents she immigrated to New Zealand at the age of twelve in 1951. At this stage of her life she spoke no English. She went to school first in Dargaville, then to Ardmore Teachers' Training College, after which she taught for two years, returning to the College to lecture in English literature for a year. She again became a fulltime student and on graduating M.A.(Hons) in 1967, was appointed to a position in Literature in the English Department at the University of Auckland,where she taught till 1999 when she took early retirement. She has since been appointed an Honorary Research Fellow (Faculty of Arts) and in 2002 was a Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellow .

In 1977 Riemke Ensing edited the pioneering anthology of New Zealand Women Poets – Private Gardens. Since then her work has been published extensively in numerous publications and appears in many anthologies (both in New Zealand and overseas), including, among others, The Twentieth Century Anthology of New Zealand Poetry, The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, The Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Poetry , 15 Contemporary New Zealand Poets, Big Smoke, Essential New Zealand Poems , The Visionary, Below the Surface – words and images in protest at French testing on Mururoa, Kiwi and Emu (Australia), New Directions, (USA), Zo Rende ik uit het Woord (Netherlands), Whales (Canada), and Earth Against Heaven – a Tiananmen Square Anthology (Australia) . Her poetry has been broadcast on radio and television. Some of her poems have been translated into other languages, including Dutch, German, Japanese and Chinese.

Riemke Ensing's most recent collection of poetry, Talking Pictures – Selected Poems, (HeadworX, 2000) is her tenth volume. She has also written extensively about the visual arts, including a catalogue entitled Stanley Palmer – Poor Knights. She has read her work throughout New Zealand, having been invited to participate in most major literary events for many years and has read as guest in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, London, Amsterdam and on such occasions as Singapore Writers' Week (1993), The Commonwealth Writers' Conference in Edinburgh (1986), The PEN Conference in Hamburg (1986) and in Kuala Lumpur and other parts of Malaysia (2000) for the 8th World Poetry Reading Festival.

Riemke Ensing has been a recipient of writing grants from Creative New Zealand and has won a number of recognitions for poetry competitions in New Zealand, America and Australia. Entries on her several contributions appear (among others) in New Zealand's Who's Who, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (Robinson & Wattie, 1999) and The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English (ed.Sage, 1999).

Edited:

Private Gardens – an anthology of New Zealand Women Poets, Caveman Press, Dunedin, 1977.
Poetry NZ 5, Brick Row Publishers, Auckland, 1992.
Gloria in Excelsis – a selection of poems by Gloria Rawlinson – in celebration, The Pear Tree Press, Auckland, 1995.

Poetry:

Making Inroads – Invocation for the New Zealand Women's Convention, Hamilton, 1979, Coal Black Press, Auckland, 1980
Letters , The Lowry Press, University of Auckland, 1982
Topographies , (graphics by Nigel Brown) Prometheus Press, Auckland, 1984
Spells from Chagall, The Griffin Press, Panmure, Auckland, 1987
The K.M. File and Other Poems with Katherine Mansfield, Hazard Press, Christchurch, Melbourne, 1993.
Like I Have Seen The Dark Green Ladder Climbing, The Pear Tree Press, Auckland, 1995
Dear Mr. Sargeson..., Cape Catley, Whatamango Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, 1995
Finding the Ancestors – poems to celebrate the occasion of the first Dutch Language and Culture Conference of its kind in New Zealand, Pear Tree Press, Auckland, May 1999.
Tarawera Te Maunga Tapu , The Pear Tree Press, Auckland, 1999.
Talking Pictures – Selected Poems, HeadworX, Wellington, 2000

Art:

Stanley Palmer: Poor Knights – a catalogue published in association with the exhibition organized by the Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga, Manukau City, 1992.

Fairburn, A. R. D.

2007-11-27T07:42:00.003+13:00

A. R. D. Fairburn (1904-1957)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 2

Full Fathom Five
A Farewell
The Cave

LP 3, side 2

Walking on My Feet
Away from it All

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 1

Denis Glover reads A. R. D. Fairburn's "The Rakehelly Man"

CD 23

Full Fathom Five
A Farewell
Walking on My Feet
Away from it All
Cupid
The Cave

Farrell, Fiona

2007-11-27T07:41:00.002+13:00

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Fiona Farrell (b. 1947)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD12

1. Anne Brown’s Song
2. Mary Lawry’s Song
3. Lucy Rainbow's Song
4. Charlotte O’Neil’s Song
5. from In a Nutshell
6. from ‘Words, War, Water:’ Preface
7. Hamed Ameri’s Skull Won’t Stop Growing
8. Ursula at Paekakariki
9. The Castle
10. Instructions for the Consumption of Your Humanitarian Food Package
11. Seven Wishes
12. Tap-dance
13. Once a Little Kiwifruit

Bio / Bibliography:

Publications:

The Hopeful Traveller. Random House, 2002. (Novel)
Light Readings. Random House, 2001. (Short stories)
The Inhabited Initial. AUP, 1999. (Poetry)
Six Clever Girls Who Became Famous Women. Penguin New Zealand, 1996. (Novel)
The Skinny Louie Book. Penguin New Zealand, 1992. (Novel)
The Rock Garden. Auckland University Press, 1989. (Short stories)
Cutting Out. Auckland University Press, 1987. (Poetry)

Stories:

Stories published in 20 anthologies including: Best Short Stories 1990 and 1994, ed. Gordon and Hughes. Heinemann, London; The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories, ed. Davis and Haley. Penguin, 1989; The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories, ed. O’Sullivan. OUP, 1992; Essential New Zealand Short Stories, ed. Marshall. Godwit Press, 2002

Poetry:

Poems anthologised in The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry ed. Evans, McQueen and Wedde. Penguin 1989; 100 New Zealand Poems, ed. Manhire. Godwit, 1993; An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English ed. Bornholdt, O’Brien and Williams. Oxford, 1997; Essential New Zealand Poems, ed. Edmonds and Sewell. Godwit/Random, 2001; 100 New Zealand Poems for Children, ed. McAlpine. Random House, 1999, 2001; New Zealand Love Poems, ed. Edmond. OUP, 2000; "Charlotte O'Neil's Song" selected for UK GCSE Syllabus, 1998-2000. NEAB Anthology, Heinemann/BBC Video. Also published in Wicked Poems, ed. Roger McGough. Bloomsbury, 2002.

Awards:

Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, Menton, 1995
New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, 1993
Writer-in -Residence, Canterbury University, 1992
Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Literary Fellowship, 1991
Mobil Award for Radio New Zealand’s Best Radio Drama, 1990
IBM Award 1989
Mobil Dominion Short Story Award 1988
American Express Short Story Award 1987
BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award 1984
Denis Glover Award (poetry) 1982
Bruce Mason Award (drama) 1982

Related experience:

• Literature Committee Advisor, Creative New Zealand. 1999-2001
• Tutoring in writing for polytechnics, universities, community arts councils and at Christchurch Women's Prison.
• Participated in NZ Book Council “Words on Wheels” tours, 1993 and 1997
• Appearances(panels/readings) at International Festival of the Arts, Wellington. 2000/Books and Beyond Festival, Christchurch 1998/1999/2000. Wordstruck, Dunedin. 1994/1996. Listener Women’s Book Festival 1989/1992/1996/1998. Poems on the Vine, 2001. Southern Lights Poetry Tour, 2001. Book Council Poets’ Tour 2001.

Fitchett, Sue

2007-11-27T07:40:00.010+13:00

Sue Fitchett (b. 1945)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD13

1. Boning Up
2. Back then
3. The Spirit of the Place
4. Whanganui Taniwha
5. Corresponding with Lorine Niedecker
6. Icarus
7. fires across the landscape
8. 1981
9. Queen Auckland
10. Honey for the Money

Bio / Bibliography:

Born in Lower Hutt; New Zealand 1945
Professional employment - Clinical Psychologist
Lives on Waiheke Island.

LITERARY GRANTS/AWARDS/PRIZES:

Literary Fund Grant in 1984.
2002 Louis Johnson bursar.
Co-winner of the 1998 New Zealand Poetry Society's International Poetry Competition.
Place getter in Takahe 2000 Poetry competition.
Commendation awards in various other national competitions.

POETRY:

Co-author of collection Drawing Together (with Marina Bachmann and Janet Charman): Published by Spiral; Distributed by New Women's Press; 1985.

Co-editor of the lesbian companion volume (Eat These Sweet Words) of The New Zealand Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Poetry (co-edited with Marewa Glover, Cary McDermott, Rhona Vickoce and Jonathan Fisher): Published by Publishing Giant Press; Christchurch; 1999.

Co-author of a collaborative work with photographer Jane Zusters (Charts & Soundings; some small navigation aids) Edited by Bernadette Hall & Elizabeth Allen; Published by Spiral in association with Island Bridge. Distributed in NZ by Addenda Ltd. and in Australia by Spinifex Press: 1999.

Author of poetry collection Palaver Lava Queen. Published by Auckland University Press in November 2004 (ISBN: 1 86940 326 6).

Published poetry in a number of anthologies, literary journals (New Zealand and Australia) and national magazines.

PROSE:

Published prose piece in the anthology Car Maintenance, Explosives and Love: Ed. by Susan Hawthorne; Cathie Dunsford & Susan Sayer: Spinifex Press: Melbourne: 1997
Published short stories in periodicals.

JOURNALISM:

A number of articles have been commissioned for periodicals.
One article has been reprinted in the anthology Been Around for Quite a While: Broadsheet: Twenty Years: Ed. by Pat Rosier: New Women's Press: 1992.

Fawkes, Glenda

2007-11-27T07:40:00.009+13:00

Glenda Fawkes (b. 1940)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD13

1. Or the Wind Lie Down
2. Never Quite Seeing
3. Visiting The Sun
4. Beachcomber
5. This is my familiar
6. Always After Rain
7. Losing the Words
8. Entering Twilight
9. Wife to husband
10. Easier Than We Thought
11. Nameless
12. Flares Of Light
13. Hard Words
14. Upskill. Retrain
15. Singing Quietly
16. The Inheritors
17. Sifting Sunlight
18. Wearing Your Name

Bio / Bibliography:

Born in Te Awamutu in 1940 Glenda’s love of language lead to the winning of the Te Aroha College Essay and Oratory Prizes between 1953 and 1957. Her poetry was published in the school and later the Ardmore Training College magazines. Further education took place at Auckland University, before teaching jobs and overseas travel lead to marriage and a family.
A spinal injury in 1981 has limited her activity since but she was able to participate and enjoy Victoria University’s Creative Writing workshops with Greg O’Brien and Brett Southgate.
Glenda lives in Otaki as a do-it yourself-er, gardener and driftwood sculptor.

Bibliography:

Glenda’s affection for nature’s smallest perfections and her concern for our planet is obvious in many of her poems.
She was first published in the School Journal in 1985 and since then had had poetry in a number of literary magazines and anthologies in NZ, Gt Britain, USA, Canada and Australia. Some have been translated into Arabic.
A Talent For Flight (Steele Roberts 1999) received favourable reviews apart from NZ Books where in spite of the number of prize winning poems it contained, the reviewer apparently found it necessary to trash the collection. Few poems have been offered for publication since.
Glenda won the Kapiti Art Awards prize for literature in 2001.

Forbes, Lindsay

2007-11-27T07:40:00.008+13:00

Lindsay Forbes

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD13

1. A Lesson in Geography
2. all that remains
3. applejack
4. Art
5. As I lay me down to sleep
6. Black & White
7. Lost light
8. Rain Poem
9. Relationship
10. Siren
11. Symphony (Sept 8)
12. The Colonel
13. The Muse
14. To Hemi: A late thanksgiving
15. Twelve Days
16. Two Harbours

Bio / Bibliography:

Lindsay Forbes is the author of The Bearing Earth, a satire on Eliot’s The Wasteland. He has won numerous commendations for his poetry including First Prize in an International Haiku Competition. His work has been published in several journals, anthologies and texts; and has also been used by other performers. Much of his poetry is politically motivated. He and Alison Wong are the co-founders of Poetry Café in Porirua. Both have been invited guest poets at numerous venues through New Zealand.

Lindsay is also the publisher and proprietor of ‘Inkweed’, which has published the poetry of Adrienne Jansen, Robin Fry and Martha Morseth; and the novel Manslaughter by Jon McLeary.

Frame, Janet

2007-11-27T07:39:00.001+13:00

Janet Frame (1924-2004)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 2

O Lung Flowering Like a Tree
The Flowering Cherry

LP 3, side 2

The Cabbages

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 27 [missing]

The Flowering Cherry
Country Dead (incomplete)
Big Bill
O Lung Flowering Like a Tree
The Cabbages

Aoteaora NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD13

1. The old man’s grapes ...
2. The cat of habit …
3. Drought in another country
4. Friends far away die …
5. On being rhapsodic
6. I thought it was all so simple …
7. Mirrors again …
8. Auckland is wonderful in March the poet said …
9. Every morning I congratulate …
10. The old bull
11. Daniel
12. Scarlet Tanager, Saratoga Springs
13. The travellers

12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):

Friends far away die ...

Bio / Bibliography:

Janet Frame was a novelist, short story writer and poet. Born in Dunedin in 1924, she attended Waitaki Girls’ High School, the University of Otago and Dunedin Teachers’ Training College (1943-44). In 1945, she entered Seacliff Mental Hospital, near Dunedin, where she was (wrongly) diagnosed as schizophrenic. Her first book, The Lagoon and Other Stories, a collection of short stories written during her eight-year confinement, was published in 1951. After her release, she boarded with the writer Frank Sargeson in Takapuna while she wrote her first novel, Owls Do Cry (1957). In 1956 she left New Zealand for Europe, travelling in the Mediterranean and living for seven years in London. Here, she wrote a further three novels and two collections of short stories. After returning to New Zealand in 1963, she continued to write prolifically and was awarded a Burns Fellowship in 1965. Her sole volume of poetry, The Pocket Mirror, appeared in 1967. Her publication rate slowed somewhat in the decade that followed; in the 1980s, however, she published her acclaimed three-volume autobiography and her last novel, The Carpathians (1988). Frame received many awards and honours in recognition for her writing. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature many times, and shortlisted at least twice (in 1998 and 2003). She died of leukemia in late January 2004.

Poetry:

The Pocket Mirror: Poems, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1967
The Goose Bath, ed. Bill Manhire, Auckland: random House, 2006

Prose (novels, short stories and autobiography):

The Lagoon and Other Stories, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1951
Owls Do Cry, Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1957
Faces in the Water, Christchurch: Pegasus, 1961
The Edge of the Alphabet, Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1962
Snowman, Snowman: Fables and Fantasies, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1962
The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1963
Scented Gardens for the Blind, Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1963
The Adaptable Man, Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1965
A State of Siege, Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1967
Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1969
The Rainbirds, London: W.H. Allen, 1968
Intensive Care, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1970
Daughter Buffalo, Wellington: Reed, 1973
Living in the Maniototo, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1979
To the Is-Land, London: Women’s Press, 1983
You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1983
An Angel At My Table, Auckland: Hutchinson, 1984
The Envoy From Mirror City, Auckland: Hutchinson, 1985
The Carpathians, Auckland: Century Hutchinson, 1988
Towards Another Summer, Auckland: Random House, 2007

Fry, Robin

2007-11-27T07:38:00.003+13:00

Robin Fry

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD14

1. So Did I
2. I don’t care if you sleep under a boat
3. It’s all in the genes
4. Opening the New Calendar
5. Classic
6. The Man Who Made friends with the Sea
7. The Bird and the Book
8. A Journey of Giraffes
9. The Pohutukawa
10. Talking Back to Billy
11. At Haywards
12. That Day
13. Motorway Song

Bio / Bibliography:

Robin Fry’s first career was in the professional theatre in England. She was one of the early NZ Government Drama Bursars to be accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London).
Back in New Zealand, she worked in Radio NZ (then the NZBS) as presenter of “Women’s Hour” 2ZB, as “Feminine Viewpoint” presenter at 2YA and then nationally. During this time she did two tours with the New Zealand Players.
While raising her family Robin went into print journalism and magazine editing, as editor of Works News, the PPTA Journal and PPTA News.
Robin Fry has been writing poetry for the past ten years. She was a member of the foundation poetry workshop at Victoria University in 1997. In 1996 she won second prize in the NZ Poetry Society’s annual international competition and in 2001 was placed first in that competition. Last year she was placed second in the Upper Hutt Poetry Competition.
Robin lives in Petone where her interests are the arts, travelling, gardening and family. She has a grown up son and daughter and four grand-children.

Robin Fry’s poems have been published in Takahe; Poetry NZ; the NZ Gardener; Sport, JAAM and Spin.
She also has poems in the NZ Poetry Society’s anthologies, Sky Falling; The Ordinary Magic; Climbing The Flame Tree; Tapping The Tank; An Exchange of Gifts and A Savage Gathering. Her poetry was represented in Coastlines, an anthology of prose and poetry from Wellington to Foxton and in an exhibition of poems about Porirua and its coast at Pataka Museum, Porirua in 2002
Her first book of poems Weather Report was published in September 2002 by Inkweed Publishing with a grant from Creative New Zealand.

Gallagher, Kathleen

2007-11-26T07:30:00.006+13:00

Kathleen Gallagher (b. 1957)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD14

1. To My Mother
2. Italy 1945
3. To Kevin Ireland & Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
4. Biking
5. When It Doesn't Pass You By
6. Pentecoste
7. To My Dad
8. Water Falling
9. Hey You Uncle
10. I love You Annie
11. He Shifts The Money
12. Whakarongo
13. I Feel Heavy
14. Inside Us the Dying
15. A Change Of Light

Bio / Bibliography:

Kathleen Gallagher received the NZ Playwrights Award in 1993. In 1996 her radio play Charlie Bloom was a finalist in the NZ Radio Awards and in the NZ Media Peace Awards. Her first collection of plays Mothertongue, with Wornens Action Theatre, was published in 1999. Her second collection Peace Plays was published in 2002. She has had three collections of poetry published - Tara, Gipsy, and Twilight bums The Sky. She lives in Christchurch.

Education & Experience:

Wick Garde Film director, scriptwriter 1999 - 2002
Nelson Polytech lecturer 1995 - 1997
NZ Radio Awards, Best Dramatic Production of the Year, finalist 1996
NZ Media Peace Awards, finalist 1996
NZ Playwrights Award QEII Arts Council NZ 1992/93
Otago Writers Summer School, drama tutor 1991,1993
University of Auckland lecturer 1991 -93
Womens Action Theatre playwright, director 1985-1993
Melbourne Women Directors Group playwright 1986-87
Blue Ladder Theatre playwright, director 1984-86
Post Grad Diploma Acc Victoria University 1980
BA Major History University of Canterbury 1977
ATCL Speech & Drama Trinity College London 1974
A Bursary Villa Maria College Christchurch 1974

Plays Performed – Premiers:

Hautu, Southern Ballet Theatre Christchurch 2002
Jimmy Sullivan (short film), Academy Cinema Christchurch 2000
Charlie Bloom (radio play), Radio NZ Wellington 1995, ABC Australia 1986
Plying, Southern Ballet Theatre Christchurch 1993
Shanty and The Angel (radio play), Radio NZ Auckland 1991
Jacaranda (co-writer Kate Winstanley) Court I Christchurch 1990
Of Morgan & Of Murphy, Court II Christchurch 1990
Kuwatawata ,Little Maidment Auckland 1990
Banshee Reel, (co-writer Jen Rippingale) Free Theatre Christchurch 1987
Offspring, (co-writer Jen Rippingale) Free Theatre Christchurch 1988
Wehe, La Mama Theatre Melbourne 1987
Cathedral of Sparrows, Radio U Blue Ladder Theatre
Mothertongue (co-writer Kate Winstanley) Free Theatre Christchurch 1986
Veve, Blue Ladder Theatre Christchurch 1985
Song of Killidoo, workshopped Blue Ladder Theatre Christchurch 1984

Books published:

Peace Plays (3 Plays) Doygal Press Christchurch 2002
With Our Eyes Open, (co-editor) Chrysalis Seed Christchurch 2002
Twilight Burns The Sky, Doygal Press Christchurch 2001
Mothertongue, (4 Plays) Publishing Giant Press Cbristchurch 1999
Gypsy, Nags Head Press Christchurch 1993
Tara, Nags Head Press Christchurch 1987
Gallaghers of Cronadun, Doygal Press Christchurch 1986
Kathleen’s Story by KS. Doyle, The Press Christchurch 1984

Gadd, Bernard

2007-11-26T07:30:00.005+13:00

[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

Geraets, John

2007-11-26T07:29:00.007+13:00

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

John Geraets

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD14

1. nikka scroll
2. mellifluous …
3. what, this freshness …
4. everything names …
5. Ibsen’s Solness ...
6. brilliant or not …
7. suicide, a note
8. Sears, Roebuck (on a Billboard)
9. Is lakes and laking …
10. Picul
11. Aland
12. nothing to distinguish it …
13. the one I do not push …
14. a sparrow, two …

Bio / Bibliography:

John Geraets was born and educated in Auckland, where he gained a Ph.D. in English in 1982. His writing has appeared in a range of magazines. He spent some time in Japan in the latter part of the 1990s and has had four books of published to date. From 2000 through 2002 he served as editor of brief, a quarterly magazine of innovative writing produced by The Writers Group.

Poetry Texts:

• discourse#5, Hard Copy, Auckland, 1985, 65pp.
• itsan, Watermark, Auckland, 1990, 35pp.
• Sanage Adventure Field, Linemen, Japan, 1995, 50pp.
• ?X, Cornerdreamer, Auckland, 2000, 75pp.

Gilbert, Ruth

2007-11-26T07:29:00.005+13:00

Ruth Gilbert (b. 1917)

Contents

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 4

The Luthier (sequence):

1. Given: A Log of Wood
Make: A Fiddle
2. The Workshop
3. ‘… did Stradivari too, I wonder …’
4. The Front; the Back
5. At Work
6. Moulding the Sides
7. The Glue
8. ‘In the White’
9. The Varnish
10. The Cremona Varnish
11. Into the Trees
12. The Violin Speaks
13. He Plays

Gardner, Jane

2007-11-26T07:29:00.004+13:00

Jane Gardner (b. 1949)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD14

1. Alone
2. Envy
3. Kitchen, morning.
4. Round the block, Part 1
5. The inspiration window

Bio / Bibliography:

Jane Gardner lives in Wellington. In addition to being published in Sport and Landfall, her poetry has been included in the AUP New Poets series.

Biblio:

AUP New Poets 2: Jane Gardner, Stu Bagby, Sonja Yelich (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002)

Glover, Denis

2007-11-26T07:27:00.004+13:00

[Photograph: Rupert Glover]

Denis Glover (1912-1980)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 2

Sunday Morning
Death of a Dictator
The Scientist

LP 3, side 1

The Magpies
For a Child
The Weather Cast
Threnody

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 1

Denis Glover reads A. R. D. Fairburn's "The Rakehelly Man"

CD 6
Sunday Morning
The Scientist
Off Banks Peninsula

CD 7

Soliloquies
Death of a Dictator
To the Plane
The Astronomer Distraught
The Weather Cast
That Shining Shame Called Ireland
The Magpies
For a Child
Threnody

Green, Paula

2007-11-26T07:27:00.003+13:00

Paula Green (b. 1955)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD15

1. Greek Salad
2. Oven-baked Salmon
3. Afternoon Tea With Virginia Woolf
4. Afternoon Tea With Virginia Woolf: 2
5. Red
6. K Rd to Kingdom Come
7. Desiring Italy
8. Milford Sound [1-4]
9. 2 Minutes Westward

Bio / Bibliography:

Paula Green lives in Auckland with painter Michael Hight and their two children. She completed her doctoral thesis on Italian women’s literature of the twentieth century in 2004. She has taught in the Italian Department, Film and Television Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Auckland. She also works as a translator.

Auckland University Press has published her first three collections of poetry, Cookhouse (1997), Chrome (2000), and Crosswind (2004). Her essays, poetry, and short fiction have appeared in journals in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United States, Great Britain, and India. She has appeared at the Auckland Writers Festivals, Seeing Voices, and participated in New Zealand Book Council reading tours.

Green founded a series of poetry readings ‘The Alba Readings’ in the early nineties. She was programme co-ordinator for the Seeing Voices Poetry festival.

Green’s latest book, Crosswind, includes a sequence of poems entitled ‘Lounge Suite.’ These poems were written in response to various New Zealand artworks that she encountered. The artists were subsequently invited to provide a new image that would be adjacent to the poem in the book. The final section of the book, ‘Westbound and Floating’ is a reaction to the music of the seventies that formed the backdrop to her youth.

Green, Tony

2007-11-26T07:26:00.003+13:00

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Tony Green (b. 1936)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD16

1. The anxious Woolrest
2. Buying the first Picasso
3. news
4. accumulation – 25 March 02
5. accumulation – 1 April 02
6. Accumulations & Walking
7. Alien Weltanschauung

Bio / Bibliography:

A.S.G.GREEN [aka Tony Green]

Born: London, 26 April 1936.

Married: [1] Anne Mary ‘Polly’ Neale, 1957-1971. Children: Sophia, b.1962; Jason, Polly Anna, b. 1964. [2] Judith ‘Judi’ Ann Stout, 1980-1995. Children: Stefan, b. 1983, Alice, Olivia, b. 1985.

Educated: The Hall School, Hampstead 1942-1949; Harrow School 1949-1954; St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University, 1954-1957, M. A. [English Literature]; Courtauld Institute of Art, 1958-1960, Postgraduate Diploma [Art History]; University of Edinburgh, 1963-1968, Ph.D. [Fine Arts].

Employment: Assistant Lecturer, 1960-1963; Lecturer 1963-1969, Dept. of Fine Arts, University of Edinburgh; Professor of Art History, University of Auckland, 1969-1998.

Currently: freelance art curator and writer.

Editing: Founder editor of Bulletin of New Zealand Art History; editor, volumes 1-9. Co-editor, with Wystan Curnow, Roger Horrocks and Judi Stout: Splash. 1984-1986.

Books:

Nicolas Poussin paints the Seven Sacraments twice, Paravad, 2000.
Many essays and reviews on New Zealand art.

Poetry books:

Londonettes and underground reading, Gee. 1978
Doe Oxide and other reflections, Gee, 1978.
Untold angels, Gee, 1979.
Software, Splash, 1986.
No place to go, The Pear Tree Press. (Designed and printed by Tara McLeod: 15 copies), 1997.

Poetry published in magazines:

Morepork, Parallax, Tango, And, Splash, Landfall, A Brief Description of the Whole World, Back to Front [ed John Geraets in Japan], Generator [ed. John Byrum. Cleveland, Ohio], Lost & Found Times [ed John M. Bennett. Columbus, Ohio], Crayon, Jackon Mac Low 75th birthday issue [ed. Andrew Levy & Bob Harrison], and occasional contributions to poetry on-line magazines.

Gregory, David

2007-11-26T07:25:00.002+13:00

David Gregory

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD15

1. Stone Talk
2. Missing the Boat
3. You Are Here
4. The Next Available God
5. No Pictures?
6. Open Only In a Disaster
7. The Terrible Truth, the Beautiful Lies
8. Three Blandishments
9. Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Bio / Bibliography:

David Gregory is a Christchurch-based poet active in the writing and promotion of poetry. He is a long time member of the Canterbury Poets Collective which has arranged poetry readings in Christchurch for the last 18 years. He is also NZSA representative on the Books and Beyond Festival Board of Trustees in Christchurch.

His work has been published, anthologised and performed widely, both here and overseas.

Two collections of David Gregory's poetry are have been published. Both publications are from Sudden Valley Press in Christchurch. The first is Always Arriving (SVP 1997) and the second is Frame of Mind (SVP 1999).

Haarhaus, Isabel

2007-11-24T08:36:00.007+13:00

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Isabel Haarhaus Michell (b. 1972)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD15

1. First Reading
2. A Poem for a Friend
3. Return
4. Rain
5. Turning
6. A Poem
7. Office
8. The Dream (part 3)
9. Louise’s Place

Bio / Bibliography:

Isabel Haarhaus was born in Bad-Homburg, Germany, in 1972 and grew up in Broek-in-Waterland - a small village on the northern skirts of Amsterdam, Holland. In 1981 she and her family immigrated to New Zealand, where they settled on a farm in Opotiki, on the East Coast of the North Island. In the late 1980s, Isabel moved to Auckland to complete her secondary education and then went on to study for Bachelor and Master of Arts Degrees in English at the University of Auckland. Throughout this time, Isabel frequently went back to Europe, spending extended periods of time in Germany, Holland and Bulgaria, where she taught English at the University of Sofia. As a student Isabel published poems in Salt, an independent publication based in Auckland, and during her travels she participated in readings at Bar 13, a poetry café in New York City and Boland’s Bohemian Bar in London. Since graduating with First Class Honours, Isabel has worked as a business journalist in Westminster, London, and a freelance arts writer in Auckland. She is currently the Arts Editor of Citymix Magazine. Isabel lives in Freemans Bay with her partner and their son.

Bibliodata:

Isabel Haarhaus has contributed to the poetry journal JAAM and is currently working on a collection of poems with view to publication. The working title of the collection is “Other People’s Houses” and the poems take their cue from thank you letters written to people the poet has stayed, visited and shared some kind of exchange or intimacy with. The collection will include some of the poems recorded here.

Haley, Russell

2007-11-24T08:36:00.004+13:00

Russell Haley (b. 1934)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 1

Gigolo in Mourning

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 25

Night Flying with Hanly
On the Fault Line: IV: Breiden Hills
Donkey Fell
Four Elements: I – Earth
Four Elements: II – Water (i)
Four Elements: II – Water (ii)
Four Elements: III – Air (i)
Four Elements: III – Air (ii)
Four Elements: III – Air (iii)
Four Elements: III – Air (iv)
Four Elements: IV – Fire

Hall, Bernadette

2007-11-24T08:34:00.001+13:00

Bernadette Hall (b. 1945)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD15

1. Lacework
2. Amica
3. Party tricks
4. Poem in the Matukituki Valley
5. Duck
6. The lay sister
7. Open field
8. Famine [1-2]
9. Early settler

Bio / Bibliography:

Bernadette Hall was born in Alexandra, Central Otago at the very end of the 2nd World War. Her father was born into a Protestant family in Northern Ireland. Her mother’s Catholic ancestors had emigrated from Dublin and Waterford so there are intriguing tensions in her heritage. As a child she shifted to Dunedin where she was educated by the Dominican Sisters. She gained an M.A (Hons) in Latin from Otago University and (until recently) taught Latin and Classical Studies at Christchurch Girls High School.

She came late to writing, her first book appearing in 1989. Since then she has published six books of poetry. Her poems feature in most major, recent anthologies. As well as poetry, Bernadette has written plays, essays, short stories and book reviews. In 2002, she co-edited with James Norcliffe, an anthology of Canterbury poems, Big Sky, published by Shoal Bay Press.

In 1991, she was Writer in Residence at Canterbury University. The next year, her play ‘Glad and the Angels’ won the Aoraki Festival Playwriting Award. In 1996, she held the Burns Fellowship at Otago University and in 1997 represented New Zealand at the International Writers Community in Iowa City, USA. In 2003 she was short-listed for the inaugural Tasmania Pacific poetry award, along with John Tranter and Les Murray, the eventual winner. The collection in question then, Settler Dreaming, was a collaboration between Bernadette and the Dunedin artist, Kathryn Madill, who designed the book and created a series of original drawings which set up a conversation with the text. Settler Dreaming was short listed for the design award in the 2002 Montana NZ prize list.

Bernadette has a strong record as a teacher of Creative Writing and as an editor. For ten years she was poetry editor for Takahe and is now in her 4th year as poetry editor for The Press. She is also an accomplished performer who has read her work at many Arts Festivals, particularly in Dunedin and Christchurch. In 2002 she was a guest reader at the NZ Arts Festival in Wellington. She has recently moved from Christchurch right into a classic Kiwi myth, a bach at a beach in North Canterbury. The hope is that this will lead to a lot more new words!

Books of Poetry:

Heartwood. Caxton Press 1989
Of Elephants etc. untold press 1990
The Persistent Levitator. VUP 1994
Still Talking. VUP 1997
Settler Dreaming. VUP 2001
The Merino Princess: Selected Poems. VUP 2004
The Ponies. VUP 2007

Edited:

Joanna Margaret Paul. Like Love Poems. VUP 2005

Harlow, Michael

2007-11-24T08:33:00.005+13:00

Michael Harlow (b. 1937)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD15

1 No Problem, But Not Easy
2 Cassandra's Daughter
3 Today is the Piano’s Birthday
4 And, yes
5 Magic Man
6 But Life Goes On
7 Cremation Blues
8 The Light is Dark Enough [1-2]

Bio / Bibliography:

Michael Harlow has published seven books of poetry, including Giotto's Elephant, a finalist in the National Book Awards in 1991. He has also published short prose in various literary journals and anthologies. The Katharine Mansfield Fellow to Menton, France in 1986, he was in 1991 the New Zealand-Australia Literary Exchange Fellow. He has written a short film, Heavy Traffic in the Dark, in collaboration with film-maker Stephanie Donald. Most recently, composed the libretto for a Performance Work, The Tower of Babel, which was presented at the International Arts Festival in St Petersburg, Russia in 1995. At present, he lives and works in Central Otago as a writer and Jungian Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. A new book of poems, Cassandra's Daughter, appeared in 2005 from AUP.

Harpeng, Jeffrey

2007-11-24T08:33:00.004+13:00

Jeffrey Harpeng

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD16

1. In Brief, An Inner Sun
2. Love Scene Without Subtitles
3. Dark Water Dreaming – 1
4. Dark Water Dreaming – 3
5. Where she finds herself
6. The Leopard
7. Play Therapy
8. white
9. Bitter Ends
10. January Child
11. Gunsmoke
12. Tombstone Territory
13. What goes
14. jass
15. First Thoughts In A New Land
16. Pigs’ Tooth

Bio / Bibliography:

Jeffrey Harpeng has been referred to by James Norcliffe as the ‘eminence gris’ of the Christchurch poetry scene. In addition to having published two collections of his work, Harpeng has had his poetry and haiku featured in Takake, Poetry NZ, and the Christchurch Press.

Biblio:

Silhouettes, Auckland: Chamaeleon Press, 1986
Interruption of Dreams: Selected Poems 1986-2003, Christchurch: Sudden Valley Press, 2003

Haswell, Judith

2007-11-24T08:32:00.003+13:00

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Judith Haswell (b. 1946)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD16

1. Black bird
2. Girl on a bicycle
3. Showday
4. Hanging over
5. In a vase on my desk
6. The hermit from Beijing
7. Easy does it
8. Violets
9. The lily
10. Dandelion
11. From Finland
12. In a Finnish garden
13. San Miniato al Monte, Florence
14. Starry sky
15. Studying Raphael
16. The visit
17. The Jaguar
18. Image
19. The dew on an apple is easier
20. The portrait
21. Mother Miranda
22. Magpie

Bio / Bibliography:

I was born in Plimmerton, north on the coast up from Wellington, in 1946. I attended various primary schools around the middle of the North Island and went to High School in Papatoetoe. I graduated with a BA from Auckland University, got a Teacher's Diploma and went overseas. I've lived in a few places out of New Zealand; my longest spell was 10 years in Norway. I work as a librarian now and live in Auckland. I've written poetry since I was quite young. Sometimes I draw. I've made books.

Individual poems have appeared in various journals and a couple of anthologies.

Private-press books and publications of my poetry include:

Parade & celebration. Griffin Press, 1983.
Potsherds & geraniums. Donek Press, 1988.
Like a tree. Pear Tree Press, 1993.
Sing, weaving : elements. E. Steiner, 1997.
The world go round. Pear Tree Press, 1997.
Recollect : Italy. E. Steiner, 2000.
Heavenly blue. Poets Group, Christchurch, 2002.

AWARDS

1988, 3rd prize for a short story in the Aoraki Festival / Timaru Herald Short Story Competition.

1991, one of 20 award-winning poems in the Whitireia Community Polytechnic Poetry Competition.

1994, one poem highly commended in the Aoraki Festival Inaugural Poetry Award Competition; one poem shortlisted.

1999, I was chosen as one of 10 award winners from 190 submissions nominated by 39 sites. My poems were submitted by Trout to Riding the Meridian, for 'A Best of Online" poetry competition.

GRANTS

1993, awarded a 'Short Term Study' by the Craft Panel of the QE II Arts Council of NZ to set up a small printery/workshop in my home.

1996, awarded a fellowship in the Stout Research Centre to continue research on Conrad Hansen and his sojourn in NZ during the 1890s. I have translated his story but still have to finish writing it up.

Hooper, Peter

2007-11-24T08:31:00.004+13:00

Peter Hooper (b. 1919)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 1

The Saviours
Observation from a fixed Point

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 27 [missing]

Beth
Haiku Sequence
If You Are My Father
Observation from a fixed Point
The Saviours
Thoughts of Westland from London]

Hawken, Dinah

2007-11-24T08:31:00.003+13:00

Dinah Hawken (b. 1943)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD16

1. The Harbour Poems [1]
2. Elegance
3. Lyric
4. Let me Put in a Word for Trees
5. Hope
6. Light is the Word for Light
7. Everywhere, Everyday
8. The Sound of Places and Names [1-3]

Bio / Bibliography:

Dinah Hawken was born in Hawera in 1943, and educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Island Bay, Wellington. After training as a physiotherapist and social worker, she worked for Catholic Social Services in Wellington before leaving for the United States in the early 1970s, where she earned a degree in social psychology from the State University of New York. After returning to New Zealand, she attended Bill Manhire’s creative writing course at Victoria University before once more leaving to attend college in New York - this time, Brooklyn College, from which she graduated M.F.A. in creative writing. Upon returning to New Zealand, she worked for a number of years as a counsellor at Student Counselling Services, Victoria University.

Her first book of poems, It Has No Sound and Is Blue, won the Commonwealth Best First Book of Poetry Prize for 1987. Since then, she has published five further collections of poetry and short fiction, and has been regularly featured in Sport, Landfall, Vital Writing, Meanjin, and JAAM, among other publications. She currently coordinates a paper, ‘Writing the Landscape’, at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University.

Biblio:

It Has No Sound and Is Blue, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1987
Small Stories of Devotion, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1991
Water Leaves Stones, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995
The Little Book of Bitching, Wellington: Very Cross Books in association with Sport, 1998
Where we say we are: letters, postcards, poems (with Marianne Ackerman et al.), Wellington: Whitireia Publishing, 2000
Oh There You Are Tui!, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001

Horrocks, Ingrid

2007-11-24T08:30:00.002+13:00

Ingrid Horrocks (b. 1975)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD17

1. Look
2. A New Year [1-4]
3. Host Parents [1-4]
4. Conversations in Roppongi [1-2]
5. Gaijin [1-3]
6. Courtship
7. Kamakura [1-5]
8. Skiing by the Sea
9. Arriving Home [1-3]
10. Wonderful Things
11. Fruit:
Figs
Kaki
Cactus
Olives
Seeds
12. Now Suddenly
13. Hunger
14. Winter Geese [1-3]
15. Horses outside Buenos Aires

Bio / Bibliography:

Ingrid Horrocks was born in Hamilton in 1975, grew up on farms north of Auckland and then in the Wairarapa, and has spent time as an English teacher in Japan. After graduating from Victoria University, where she received the 1996 Course Prize in Original Composition, she was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study women’s literature and history at the University of York, England. Also the recipient of the Macmillan Brown Prize for a collection of poetry and short fiction in 1996, she has published a chapbook of poems, Natsukashii (Pemmican Press, 1998), and poems and stories in Landfall, Sport, NZ Books and JAAM. Most recently she has published a work of imaginative non-fiction, Travelling with Augusta, 1835 & 1999 (Victoria University Press, 2003) about a journey through Europe with the journal of her great-great-great aunt. She did graduate work in English at Princeton University, New Jersey, and has now returned to New Zealand to take up a position teaching Creative Writing at Massey University (Wellington).

Hunt, Sam

2007-11-24T08:28:00.006+13:00

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (1979)]

Sam Hunt (b. 1946)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 2

A Purple Balloon
Time to Ride
Notes from a Journey

LP 3, side 2

School Policy on Stickmen
Four Bow-wow Poems
Four Cobweb Poems
A Mangaweka Road Song

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 5

Time to Ride, or the last Time I Saw Larry Happy
Main-Trunk Country Road-Song
Dad, Dad, Dad
My Father Scything
A Mangaweka Road Song
Walking the Morning City

CD 6

A Purple Balloon
Time to Ride
After Sickness
Early Opener
Singing For You Now
Daddy Dad on Fire
Notes from a Journey
School Policy on Stickmen
Bracken Country
Moonshine
Gauguin through Fever
Buried Alive
Every Time It Rains Like This
Main Trunk country Road-song
Four Bow-wow Poems
Four Cobweb Poems
We Could Just Disappear
8 pm World of Science
Uncle Rory
Photograph of …

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD17

1. War History
2. Rainbows and a Promise of Snow [1-2]
3. A new plateau song
4. Requiem
5. What a pity
6. Hey, Minstrel
7. Old flames
8. Four Plateau songs [1-4]
9. Sara
10. Bottle to Battle to Death
11. Fucking poem
12. Brother Lynch
13. Wavesong
14. Naming the Gods
15. Wedding Party and After

Bio / Bibliography:

Sam Hunt was born at Castor Bay, on Auckland’s North Shore, in 1946. He has described poetry has being ‘part of the blood beat’ of his family while he was growing up - his mother would read poems to her children, and Hunt and his siblings claimed descent through her from Matthew Arnold’s sister. Hunt credits these organic connections with his own early entry into writing; he began writing poems at 16, influenced, he says, by the musical and speech rhythms of early ‘60s American rock and roll.

In 1963, Hunt left St. Peter’s College, Auckland, with University Entrance and travelled to Wellington, where he befriended the poet Alistair Campbell (whose poetry he had long admired). For the next four years, he oscillated between the two cities, working at a variety of jobs and attending both Victoria University and the University of Auckland. He eventually graduated with a teaching diploma, and taught briefly at a number of schools. (It was during a stint at Mana College that he first met the poet Gary McCormick, then a student.) At the beginning of the 1970s, however, he decided to become a ‘full-time’ poet, and subsequently embarked on a career reading (for pay) in front of pub, school, and prison audiences.

Hunt was at pains to distance himself from his more ‘academic’ contemporaries during the 1970s. He referred to his works as ‘road songs’ rather than poems, and emphasized the performative and role-playing aspects of the poet’s vocation. Rather than claiming, like many of the University poets, to be influenced by the then-fashionable ‘Black Mountain’ school of American poetry, Hunt pointed instead to the influence of popular music: ‘basically I’m a rock-and-roller, so some of the very big influences on me have been the songs of people like Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Rod Stewart’. The late 1960s and 1970s were the most fruitful years for Hunt, with six volumes of his poetry published between 1969 to 1977.

The flow of writing ebbed somewhat during the decades that followed. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hunt began to make frequent television appearances, both in commercials, and as a presenter of documentary and lifestyle programming. In the mid 1990s, he and Gary McCormick revived the kind of poetry road trips they had embarked on together in the 1970s; these resulted in the coffee-table book Roaring Forties. A volume of new poems - Down the Backbone - appeared in 1995.

Select Bibliography:

Bracken Country (Wellington: Glenbervie Press, 1971)
From Bottle Creek (Wellington: Alister Taylor, 1972)
South Into Winter : Poems and Roadsongs (Wellington: Alister Taylor, 1973)
Time to Ride (Waiura: Alister Taylor, 1975)
Drunkards Garden (Wellington: Hampson Hunt, 1977)
Collected Poems 1963-1980 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980)
Running Scared (Christchurch: Whitcoulls, 1982)
Approaches to Paremata (Auckland: Penguin, 1985)
Making Tracks : a Selected 50 Poems (Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1991)
Down the Backbone (Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 1995)
Roaring Forties (with Gary McCormick; photographer John McDermott) (Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 1995)

Howard, David

2007-11-24T08:28:00.005+13:00

[Photograph: Ella Rushton (December, 2007)]

David Howard (b. 1959)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD17

1. Social Studies
2. To Cavafy
3. I
4. The Perpetual Bird
5. Talking Sideways
6. On the Eighth Day
7. Lawyer's Point
8. Heroin

Bio / Bibliography:

David Howard (b. 1959). The author of poems described by David Eggleton as "technically dazzling" and teeming with "glittering figures of speech", David has worked as a pyrotechnic and special effects supervisor for acts including Metallica and Janet Jackson. David’s collaboration with photographer Fiona Pardington, ‘How To Occupy Our Selves’ was published by HeadworX earlier this year. He is now working with the Czech composer Marta Jirackova, who is setting the text ‘The Carrion Flower’, and also with the Leipzig-based photographer Dean Nixon on an exhibition entitled ‘Unfinished Business’. Both projects were fostered by the receipt of a Creative New Zealand project grant in 2001-2.

Biblio:

Head First. Auckland: Hard Echo Press, 1985.
In the First Place: Poems 1980-1990. Photographs by Paul Swadel. Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1991.
Holding Company. Christchurch: Nag’s Head Press, 1995.
Shebang: Collected Poems 1980-2000. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2001.
(with Fiona Pardington). How to Occupy Our Selves. Wellington: HeadworX, 2003.

Edited:

Takahe (1989-1993)
Complete with Instructions. Christchurch: Firebrand, 2001.

Hutchison, Jan

2007-11-24T08:27:00.003+13:00

Jan Hutchison

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD18

1. James Copland and his horse Pegasus in the Tuapeka
2. Languages
3. The Long Sleep is Over
4. Here, This Name
5. My Mother and Father
6. Rain in August
7. The Weather in Hiroshima
8. The Needle
9. Waving from the Train
10. A Lesson on the Beach
11. I Paint Aunt Alice at her Table
12. Cul-de-Sac with Chestnut Trees & Asian Woman
13. Evening
14. The Window at Night
15. Waiting at the River

Bio / Bibliography:

Jan Hutchison lives in Christchurch and worked for many years as a librarian in Wellington and Dunedin. She reads poems at the Canterbury Poets’ Collective and has read during the Christchurch Festival of Books. Her first collection of poems is The Long Sleep is Over, published by Steele Roberts in 1999. Another collection, Days among Trees, is forthcoming in 2004. Her poems appear in a variety of publications in New Zealand, Canada and the U.K. She has facilitated creative writing with groups of school children and with adults in Christchurch.

Jan Hutchison is represented in a number of anthologies published by various groups including the New Zealand Poetry Society. Recently anthologies where her poems have been published are:– Another 100 New Zealand Poems for Children, edited by Rachel McAlpine, Random House, 2001; Big Sky, edited by Bernadette Hall & James Norcliffe, Shoal Bay Press, 2002; Coastlines, edited by Judith Holloway, Dunmore Press, 2001; My Garden, My Paradise, edited by Christina Stachurski, Hazard Press, 2003; New Zealand Love Poems, edited by Lauris Edmond, Oxford University Press, 2000; Passport Stamps, edited by James Norcliffe & David Howard, Firebrand, 2001.

The following poems listed in the bibliodata will appear in a revised form in her collection Days among Trees. They are – James Copland and his horse Pegasus in the Tuapeka; The Needle; The Window at Night.

Books:

The Long Sleep is Over, Wellington: Steele Roberts, 1999.
Coastlines, Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2001.
Big Sky, Christchurch: Shoal Bay Press, 2002.

Other poems have been published in: the Listener, JAAM, Poetry NZ, Takahe, Glottis, New Zealand Books, and the Press.

Ireland, Kevin

2007-11-23T07:16:00.002+13:00

Kevin Ireland (b. 1933)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 1

Deposition
Thorn and Wind
Threnody (for Bob Lowry)

LP 3, side 1

Antic Hay
A Hard Country

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 1

Sea-Dog Takapuna
Boys at Oriental Bay
The Poor Go Fishing
Antic Hay
Deposition
Thorn & Wind
Orchids & Hummingbirds
A New Technique
A Guide to Perfection
Skin
Auteur de Fait
Talking
Inspecting the Garden

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD18

1. Cloud
2. A Whiff of the Old Adam
3. Truth at Dawn
4. Questions that Must be Answered
5. An Unforgettable Day
6. The Problem with Poetry
7. On the Deaths of Neighbours and Friends
8. Stormy Weather
9. A Poem for Santa Claus
10. An Ode to Mighty Sid
11. Villanelle for a Smile
12. Hills, Pines, Clouds

Bio / Bibliography:

Kevin Ireland was born in Mt Albert, Auckland, and now lives just across the harbour in Devonport. Among his many prose publications are three novels (Blowing My Top, The Man Who Never Lived and The Craymore Affair), a collection of short stories (Sleeping with the Angles), an opera libretto (The Snow Queen), and a book on the New Zealand novel (The New Zealand Collection).

His first memoir, Under the Bridge & Over the Moon, appeared in 1998 and won the Montana prize for History and Biography. He has also received a National Book Award for Poetry, a Scholarship in Letters, the 1990 Commemoration Medal, and an OBE for “services to literature”. In 2000 he was made a Doctor of Literature by Massey University. He is a former National President of PEN, and is a member, and former Vice-president, of the Sargeson Trust.

He has been awarded fellowships by Canterbury University, the Sargeson Trust and Auckland University. In 2001 he published the second volume of his memoirs, Backwards to Forwards, and his 14th book of poems, Fourteen Reasons for Writing. The previous 13 titles are: Face to Face, Educating the Body, A Letter from Amsterdam, Orchids Hummingbirds and Other Poems, A Grammar of Dreams, Literary Cartoons, The Dangers of Art, Practice Night in the Drill Hall, The Year of the Comet, Selected Poems, Tiberius at the Beehive, Skinning a Fish, Anzac Day: Selected Poems.

Isichei, Elizabeth

2007-11-23T07:15:00.002+13:00

Elizabeth Isichei

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD18

1. On the Functions of the Heart
2. For an English Bird Watcher
3. John Drawbridge Interior No 2, 1979
4. At Allen's Beach [1-2]
5. Triptych [1-3]
6. The Induna of Jerusalem
7. Paperweight
8. Ghost in the Shell
9. Foreign Student
10. Custody
11. Polly

Bio / Bibliography:

Elizabeth Isichei published poetry in Landfall, The Listener, Comment, NZ Poetry Yearbook and elsewhere between 1958 and her departure for Oxford in 1962. In the years which followed she concentrated mainly on academic writing. She taught at African universities for sixteen years, and collected and translated much indigenous oral literature, including oral poetry. She was founder editor of Jos Oral History and Literature Texts.

She returned to poetry in the late nineties. Her work has appeared in four anthologies and in The Listener, Sport, Spin, WinterSpin, Poetry NZ and Glottis. She is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Otago.

Jackson, Anna

2007-11-22T07:31:00.007+13:00

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Anna Jackson (b. 1967)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD19

1. Kitchen Drain
2. Watch
3. The hen of tiredness
4. The computer hen
5. Pick up
6. Takahe
7. The Long Road to Teatime
8. Paradiso
9. On the road with Rose
10. Coffee and cheese with Gudrun and Ursula
11. Rocket
12. In a minute

Bio / Bibliography:

Anna Jackson has recently moved to Wellington from Auckland, with partner Simon Edmonds, son Johnny and daughter Elvira (and cat Rufy and mice Sally and Little). She lectures on American Literature at the University of Victoria.

Biblio:

Publications include “My Friendship with the Sun,” a selection of poems, in AUP New Poets One, 1999, The Long Road to Tea-time, AUP, 2000 and The Pastoral Kitchen, AUP, 2001

Jackson, Michael

2007-11-22T07:31:00.006+13:00

Michael Jackson (b. 1940)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 2

Paremata

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 22

Yilkanani
Anecdote from a Friend’s Childhood
Apprentice to Master
Shape Shifter
The Return
Fille de Joie: Congo
The Red Road
Paremata
My Poems
Exile
Latitudes of Exile

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD19

1. Shape-Shifter
2. The Red Road
3. Australia
4. Fieldwork
5. Seven Mysteries
6. Full Moon
7. Sudan
8. Green Turtle
9. Two Sides of the Street
10. Remembering Jim Baxter
11. Old Photos

Bio / Bibliography:

Michael Jackson is a graduate of the Universities of Auckland (New Zealand) and Cambridge (UK), and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Sierra Leone (1969-70, 1972, 1979, 1983, 2002, 2003) and Aboriginal Australia (1990, 1991, 1994, 1997). The author of numerous books of poetry and anthropology, including the prize-winning Latitudes of Exile, Wall, Pieces of Music, Paths Toward a Clearing, and At Home in the World, he has also published two novels. His most recent book, In Sierra Leone, was published in the USA in March 2004. Michael Jackson has lived and worked in Australia, the United States, England, Sierra Leone, and Denmark, where he is presently Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. He is presently working on a new novel.

Selected Bibliography:

1976 - Latitudes of Exile: Poems 1965-1975. McIndoe: Dunedin.
Wall: Poems 1976-1979. McIndoe: Dunedin.
Going On. McIndoe: Dunedin.
1986 - Barawa, and the Ways Birds Fly in the Sky: an Ethnographic Novel. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington.
Rainshadow. McIndoe: Dunedin.
Duty Free: Selected Poems 1965-1988. McIndoe: Dunedin.
1994 - Pieces of Music. Random House: Auckland.
At Home in the World. Duke University Press: Durham
1996 - Antipodes. Auckland University Press: Auckland.
1997 - The Blind Impress. The Dunmore Press: Palmerston North.
2004 - In Sierra Leone. Duke University Press: Durham.

Jackaman, Rob

2007-11-22T07:31:00.005+13:00

Rob Jackaman (b. 1945)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD18

1. Mahavishnu
2. The Lady Walks
3. Zone
4. Skins
5. from Apes Road/Interim
6. from Bare Wires
7. Mr Poe does Riccarton
8. All Over Sydney

12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):

Skins

Bio / Bibliography:

Born Ipswich, England, October 1945. Read English Literature at King’s College, Cambridge (BA 1964-7; MA 1969). Won Commonwealth Scholarship to Auckland, New Zealand, and studied for Ph.D. under Professor C.K Stead; Ph.D. awarded March 1971. Appointed Lecturer in English at the University of Canterbury, January 1972 until now, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1975; and to Senior Lecturer above the Bar in 1990. Specialises at Canterbury in Twentieth-Century British and American poetry; Contemporary Australian and New Zealand poetry; and Renaissance Literature. Also convenes the University’s Creative Writing course, and is a widely published poet, with considerable experience as a poetry editor.

Academic Books:

Creative Writing/Creative Reading, Christchurch College Press, 1977, 35p.
The Course of English Surrealist Poetry since the 1930s, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989, 325p.
Poets and Publishers: a Study of Cultural Centres and Margins in British Poetry since 1950, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995, 336p.
Broken English/Breaking English: a Study of Contemporary Poetries in English, New York: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003, about 280p.

Books of Poetry:

Arthur the King [poems], Christchurch: Underoak Press, 1975: 21 p.
Hemispheres: Poems 1965-73, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1976: 54p.
Lee; a Science Fiction Poem, Christchurch: Underoak Press, 1976: 22p.
Hiroshima Poems of Sankichi Toge [translated with Dennis Logan and Tsutomu Shioda], Tokyo: Sanyu-sha, 1977: 183p.
The Suffolk Miracle [poems], Christchurch: Underoak Press, 1978: 12 posters.
‘Fate of Franklin’ [poems] in 15 Contemporary New Zealand Poets, ed. Alistair Paterson, Dunedin: Pilgrims South Press, 1980: 63-76.
Shaman and Charlatan: Poems since 1973, Auckland: Cicada Press, 1981: 42p.
Solo Lovers: Three Sequences of poems, Sydney: South Head Press, 1982: 36p.
Triptych: Poems since 1981, Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1988/9: 63p.
Palimpsest: an Historical Sequence [poems], Christchurch: Caxton Press; and Ontario, Quarry Press, 1988/9: 54p.
Distances: Poems 1985-90, Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1992, 78p.
Buried Ships: Poems New and Unpublished, Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1996: 152p.
Late Love Songs, Christchurch: Hazard Press, 2001: 87p.
Apes Road: Poems since 1996, Christchurch: Hazard Press, 2003: about 80p.

Edited:

Guest editor of both Landfall [no. 122; 1977] and Poetry Australia [no. 110; 1987]. Editor of Hazard Australasian Poets series (more than 30 volumes); and General Editor of Hazard Art Series.

Jansen, Adrienne

2007-11-22T07:30:00.007+13:00

Adrienne Jansen (b. 1947)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD19

1. Spanish Civil War, 1937
2. The Bearer
3. Passing
4. Pot Shot
5. Dunedin: Playing Scrabble with my Aunt
6. Conversations

Bio / Bibliography:

Adrienne Jansen has lived in Porirua City for 20 years, after growing up in Wellington and living in various places in and out of New Zealand. She graduated from Victoria University and the University of Calgary, Alberta, then mostly taught in the tertiary sector. She taught English to immigrants, mainly refugees, for many years, established the Whitireia Polytechnic Creative Writing Programme and was its coordinator for several years. She has two sons, belongs to a large family and married into another large family. These are all things she has written about.

Major publications:

Borany's Story, Co-author. Learning Media 1991(Radio NZ, 1989)

I have in my arms both ways: life stories of ten immigrant women. Bridget Williams Books, 1990

Spirit Writing: a novel. HarperCollins 1999, Radio New Zealand 2001

Floating the Fish on Bamboo: a novel. HarperCollins 2001, Radio New Zealand 2002

A stone seat and a shadow tree: poems. Inkweed, 2001

Jacobs, Helen

2007-11-22T07:30:00.006+13:00

Helen Jacobs (b. 1929)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD19

1. To Butterfly
2. Meetings
3. Beans and Moonbeams
4. In The Belly of My Daughter
5. Threads
6. Apricots
7. Small Things
8. Without Icons
9. Day Moon and Wind
10. Jar and Water
11. The Usefulness of Singing
12. Wellington Revisited [1-3]
13. The River
14. Boy and Boat
15. Hard Edge
16. from Poems for Children:
Cooking
Melting Snow
Attics
Puddles
Dinner

Bio / Bibliography:

Helen Jacobs is the writing name of Elaine Jakobsson.

Born 1929 in Patea, one of five children, and grew up in the railway settlement there. Educated at local schools. Completed a BA degree from Canterbury University College in 1950. Married 1954 and lived in Eastbourne for thirty-six years before living briefly in the Wairarapa for three years growing a large garden and then, since 1994, back to Christchurch.

From play centre days onwards always involved in community activities and environmental issues related to Wellington and Eastbourne. A founding member of the East Harbour Environmental Association 1973. In 1974 elected to the Eastbourne Borough Council, becoming mayor from 1980-86. Founded the Eastbourne Arts Trust in 1981 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the borough and chaired it for ten years. Chaired the Regional Committee of Hutt Regional Community Mental Health Services 1983-86. Active in the Women's Electoral Lobby from 1976. After retiring from the mayoralty in 1986 appointed to the Planning Tribunal for five years. Retired at the end of 1991. Currently chair the Canterbury Poets Collective and am secretary of the Fendalton Park Croquet Club.

Began writing poetry about 1976 in the spaces of a busy public life.

Four collections of poetry:

1984 THIS CORDING, THIS ARTERY - Blackberry Press.
1994 WIND QUICK - Hazard Press.
1997 POOLS OVER STONE - Sudden Valley Press.
1999 THE USEFULNESS OF SINGING - Sudden Valley Press.

Work included in anthologies:

"Yellow Pencils", "Voiceprints 2", "The Old man And So On", "Throwing The Words", "Half Light And High Wind", "Five Wairarapa Poets", "Oxford Anthology Of Love Poems" 2000, "Essential NZ Poems" 2001.

Poems have been published in many New Zealand magazines and also in Canada and Australia.

Private collection of poetry written for my twin grandsons and other special children.

Prose:

A PLACE TO PLAY for the Play Centre Federation published 1975