Dr Jack Ross & Jan Riemenschneider Kemp
[AoNZPSA Launch, Gus Fisher Gallery (17 July, 2004)]
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 Many of the details recorded here are therefore significantly out of date.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.
– Dr Jack Ross
Jack Ross & Jan Kemp
[Old Government House, Auckland (9 May, 2024)]
Key:
Preface [2007]
Introduction [2004]
Poets (A-Z) :
A [6]
Fleur Adcock – [1974/LP & 2004/2006]
Rob Allan – [2004]
Julia Allen – [2004 & Taonga]
K. O. Arvidson – [1974/LP & 2004]
Nick Ascroft – [2004/2008]
Tusiata Avia – [2004/2008]
B [20]
Stu Bagby – [2004]
Serie Barford – [2004/2008]
Caroline Barnes – [2004]
Jennifer Barrer – [2004]
Helen Bascand – [2004]
James K. Baxter – [1974/LP & 2006]
Arthur Baysting – [1974/LP]
Jeanne Bernhardt – [2004]
Claire Beynon – [2004]
Graham Bishop – [2004]
Peter Bland – [2004/2006]
Jenny Bornholdt – [2004/2008]
Charles Brasch – [1974/LP & 2006]
Erick Brenstrum – [1974 & 2004]
Diana Bridge – [2004]
Bernard Brown – [2004/2008]
Diane Brown – [2004]
James Brown – [2004]
Alan Brunton – [1974/LP & 2004/2007]
Owen Bullock – [2004]
C [15]
Kate Camp – [2008]
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell – [1974/LP & 2004/2006 & Taonga]
Meg Campbell – [2004]
John Caselberg – [2004]
Tony Chad – [2004]
David Chan – [2004]
Jill Chan – [2004]
Lynda Chanwai-Earle – [2004/2008 & Taonga]
Janet Charman – [2004/2007]
Geoff Cochrane – [2004/2007]
Glenn Colquhoun – [2008]
Kay McKenzie Cooke – [2004]
James Moeroa Cummings – [2004]
Allen Curnow – [1974/LP & 2004/2006]
Wystan Curnow – [2004]
D [9]
Peter Dane – [1974 & 2004]
Lynn Davidson – [2004]
Leigh Davis – [2004]
Stephanie de Montalk – [2004/2007]
John Dickson – [2004]
John Dolan – [2004]
Lee Dowrick – [2004]
Mike Doyle – [1974/LP]
Grant Duncan – [2004]
E [5]
Michael Eager – [2004]
Lauris Edmond – [1974 & 2004/2006]
Murray Edmond – [2004/2007]
David Eggleton – [2004/2007]
Riemke Ensing – [1974 & 2004/2006 & Taonga]
F [8]
A. R. D. Fairburn – [1974/LP & 2006]
Fiona Farrell – [2004/2007]
Glenda Fawkes – [2004]
Sue Fitchett – [2004]
Lindsay Forbes – [2004]
Janet Frame – [1974/LP & 2004/2006 & Taonga]
Anne French – [2007]
Robin Fry – [2004]
G [9]
Bernard Gadd – [2004]
Kathleen Gallagher – [2004]
Jane Gardner – [2004]
John Geraets – [2004]
Ruth Gilbert – [1974]
Denis Glover – [1974/LP & 2006]
Paula Green – [2004/2007]
Tony Green – [2004]
David Gregory – [2004]
H [13]
Isabel Haarhaus – [2004]
Russell Haley – [1974/LP]
Bernadette Hall – [2004/2007]
Michael Harlow – [2004/2006]
Jeffrey Harpeng – [2004]
Judith Haswell – [2004]
Dinah Hawken – [2004]
Peter Hooper – [1974/LP]
Ingrid Horrocks – [2004]
David Howard – [2004/2008]
Keri Hulme – [2007]
Sam Hunt – [1974/LP & 2004/2007]
Jan Hutchison – [2004]
I [2]
Kevin Ireland – [1974/LP & 2004/2006]
Elizabeth Isichei – [2004]
J [11]
Rob Jackaman – [2004 & Taonga]
Anna Jackson – [2004/2008]
Michael Jackson – [1974/LP & 2004/2006]
Helen Jacobs – [2004]
Adrienne Jansen – [2004]
Louis Johnson – [2006]
Mike Johnson – [2004]
Andrew Johnston – [2008]
Tim Jones – [2004]
M. K. Joseph – [1974/LP & 2006]
Vivienne Joseph – [2004]
K [7]
Kapka Kassabova – [2004/2008]
Brigid Kelly – [2004]
Jan Kemp – [1974/LP & 2004/2007]
Scott Kendrick – [2004]
Anne Kennedy – [2004/2008]
Julie Kennedy – [2004]
Koenraad Kuiper – [2004]
L [9]
Jack Lasenby – [1974/LP]
Michele Leggott – [2004/2007]
Julie Leibrich – [2004]
Graham Lindsay – [2004/2007]
Dennis List – [1974]
Thérèse Lloyd – [2008]
Terry Locke – [2004]
Alan Loney – [1974/LP]
D. S. Long – [1974/LP]
M [21]
Olivia Macassey – [2004/2008 & Taonga]
Carl Mair – [2004]
Bill Manhire – [1974/LP & 2004/2007]
R. A. K. Mason – [1974/LP & 2006]
Larry Matthews – [2004]
Rachel McAlpine – [2004]
Dave McBride – [1974]
Gary McCormick – [2004]
Frankie McMillan – [2004]
Judith McNeil – [2004]
Heather McPherson – [2004]
Cilla McQueen – [2004/2007]
Harvey McQueen – [2004]
Gerald J. Melling – [1974/LP & 2004]
Rosemary Menzies – [2004]
Luke Milner – [2004]
Barry Mitcalfe – [1974/LP]
David Mitchell – [1974/LP & 2006]
Michael Morrissey – [2004]
Martha Morseth – [2004]
Eric Mould – [2004]
N [3]
Emma Neale – [2004/2008]
John Newton – [2004/2008]
James Norcliffe – [2004/2007]
O [10]
Gregory O’Brien – [2004/2008]
John O'Connor – [2004]
David Ogle – [2004]
Peter Olds – [2004/2007]
Michael O'Leary – [2004]
Victor O’Leary – [1974]
Stephen Oliver – [2004]
W. H. Oliver – [2004]
Bob Orr – [1974/LP & 2004/2007]
Vincent O’Sullivan – [1974/LP & 2004/2006]
P [8]
Alistair Paterson – [1974/LP & 2004/2006]
Mark Pirie – [2004/2008]
Vivienne Plumb – [2004/2007]
Roma Potiki – [2004/2007]
Jenny Powell-Chalmers – [2004/2008 & Taonga]
Joanna Preston – [2004]
Chris Price – [2004/2008]
John Pule – [2004/2008]
Q [1]
Sarah Quigley – [2004/2008]
R [11]
Gloria Rawlinson – [1974/LP]
Blair Reeve – [2004]
Richard Reeve – [2004/2008]
Trevor Reeves – [1974/LP & 2004]
Helen Rickerby – [2004]
Harry Ricketts – [2004]
Ron Riddell – [2004]
Lorraine Ritchie – [2004]
Matthew Robertson – [2004]
Alan Roddick – [1974/LP]
Jack Ross – [2004/2008]
S [17]
L. E. Scott – [2004 & Taonga]
Bill Sewell – [2004/2007 & Taonga]
Iain Sharp – [2004/2007]
Peb Simmons – [2004]
Jane Simpson – [2004]
Keith Sinclair – [1974/LP & 2006]
Tracey Slaughter – [2004/2008]
Elizabeth Smither – [2004/2006]
Kendrick Smithyman – [1974/LP & 2004/2006]
Barry Southam – [1974/LP & 2004]
Anne Spivey – [1974]
Alex Staines – [2004]
C. K. Stead – [1974/LP & 2004/2006]
Olwyn Stewart – [2004]
Barbara Strang – [2004]
Mike Subritzky – [2004]
Robert Sullivan – [2004/2008]
T [4]
Apirana Taylor – [2004/2007 & Taonga]
Denys Trussell – [2004]
Brian Turner – [1974 & 2004/2006]
Hone Tuwhare – [2004/2006]
V [1]
Richard von Sturmer – [2004/2007 & Taonga]
W [11]
Raymond Ward – [1974/LP]
Ian Wedde – [1974/LP & 2004/2007]
Albert Wendt – [1974/LP & 2004/2006]
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 – [2004/2008]
Mark Young – [1974]
[203 poets in all:
171 from the AoNZPSA [2004];
25 from the Waiata Archive [1974];
(27 are included in both archives);
& 7 from the Poets in Performance Series (AUP, 2006-8)]
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
[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
Contents
New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):
Waiata Archive (1974):
Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):
Bio / Bibliography:
Contents:
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):
The Gunfighter
Home from Hospital
Lest We Forget
Maori Battalion Veteran
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
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
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.
Contents:
New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):
Details from a personal journal
Gasp
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).
Contents:
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):
Morning Glory
Love Affair
T’ai Chi
Transport
Aotearoa 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
[Photograph: Simone Oettli (c. 1975)]
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
12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):
War - Childhood
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.
Contents:
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):
The Cat of Habit
The Icicles
Lines Written at the Frank Sargeson Centre
O Lung Flowering Like a Tree
Aotearoa 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
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
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
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.
Contents:
New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):
Outhwaite Park
Outer Suburb
Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):
CD23
1. Outhwaite Park
2. Outer Suburb
3. Sub Rosa
4. Four Chambers
5. My Beautiful Cinderella
6. Ring of Roses
7. The Freak
8. Otesánek
9. Water Damage
12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):
Otesánek
Bio / Bibliography:
Olivia Macassey was born in International Women's Year, 1975. She spent her childhood on the edge of the Otama forest in the Coromandel and moved to Auckland in 1991. She is currently completing a PhD in Film Television and Media at the University of Auckland. She lives in Parnell.
Macassey has performed her poetry regularly since 1994, in both group and solo shows, and in festivals. She has read in venues ranging from pubs and cafes, schools, shops, and galleries, to the Aotea Centre and the Auckland Town Hall.
Bibliography:
Though largely unpublished, her work has appeared in the following publications: Brief issues 24 & 25 2002; Platform 2001; Tongue in Your Ear volumes 1-6 (1997-2002); Debate 1999; Auckland Live 1996; Craccum 1996.
She has also been featured on the compilation CD Aural Ink 2001, and her work has appeared variously on Triangle Television, in student documentary film, on access radio, and on student radio 95 bfm.
Contents:
New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):
Carnival of Chocolate
Linda
Lunch Box
Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):
CD29
1. Carnival of Chocolate
2. Drifting North
3. Fireworks
4. Getting to the Point
5. Jack Frost’s Cat
6. Linda
7. Lobster Telephone
8. Lunch Box
9. Making Love To A Tuba
10. Red Secrets
11. Sings the Southern Green
12. The Courtyard of Welcoming Fragrance
12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):
Carnival of Chocolate
Bio / Bibliography:
Jenny Powell-Chalmers is a Dunedin poet, mother of 1, teacher and researcher. She has performed her work in various venues in New Zealand and Australia. She has had three books published and is represented in various collections and magazines. Jenny has recently been working on collaborative projects and on writing poems for children.
Books:
Sweet Banana Wax Peppers (1998) HeadworX: Wellington
Hats (2000) HeadworX: Wellington
Double Jointed (2003) Inkweed: Wellington
Contents
Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):
CD32
1. And The World Was Dark
2. A Poem For God
3. Bone to Bone
4. Reflections on a Father
5. Run Child Run
6. The Actor
7. The Hour of the Wolves
8. This Bitter Earth
9. Three Women
12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):
A Poem for God
Bio / Bibliography:
L. E. Scott is a Wellington-based jazz poet, performer, prose writer and reviewer. He was born in Cordele, Georgia, in 1947. When a teenager, he moved with his family to Trenton, New Jersey, where he attended high school. After graduating, he was drafted into the United States Army and spent a year in Vietnam as an infantryman (1967-8). After discharge, he attended Trenton State College, then left the United States to travel in Europe, West Africa and Australia. He came to New Zealand in 1976.
Scott started writing at twelve, and has so far published thirteen collections of poetry and short fiction. He has also edited three verse anthologies. His work has been published widely in journals, magazines and newspapers in New Zealand, Australia, India and the United States, and he has performed at poetry festivals worldwide. He is currently New Zealand editor of the Australian-based journal Kalimat.
Poetry:
The Coming of Lewis E. Scott, U.S.A.: Pride Publications, 1972
Together - Sheila and Lewis, Trenton, N.J.: Pride Publications, 1973
Time Came Hunting Time - Vietnam, Cammeray, N.S.W: Saturday Centre Books, 1978
This Bitter Earth, Eastbourne: Hawk Press, 1978
3 Shades: Apirana Taylor, Lindsay Rabbit, L. E. Scott, Wellington: Voice Press, 1981
Nothing But a Man, Days Bay: Voice Press, 1981
Songs for My Father, Wellington: Blackberry Press, 1983
Nightfall: Empty Spaces Before the Morning, Lower Hutt: Anchor Communications, 1985
Hour of the Wolves, Melbourne: Nosukomo, 1987
A Woman Called Maasumaa, Auckland: Bent Publishing, 1995
Earth Colours: 1970-2000, Wellington: HeadworX, 2000
Poetry and Prose:
In Celebration of My Spiritual Father: For James Baldwin (1924-1987), Auckland: Dada Afrika, 1990
Black Family Letters from Boston, Wellington: BlueBlack Press, 1994
Edited:
Each Other’s Dreams: Contemporary Black American Writing, Hamilton, Outrigger, 1982
King’s Cross Pub Poets, Lower Hutt: Hutt Valley Community Arts Council, 1985
Wiimpatjai Bulku Pipinja - Black Fella’s Message - Aborigine Writers, Sydney: Gavemer Publishing, 1986
[Photograph: Reg Graham (1998)]
Bill Sewell (1951-2003)
Contents:
Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):
Jahrhundertwende
Riversdale
Breaking the Quiet
Censorship
Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):
CD33
1. Pearse mocked by a tree
2. Monsters
3. Wrestling
4. Flagstaff
5. Jahrhundertwende
6. At Cambridge with Hamlet
7. Sutton
8. Mainland
9. Riversdale
10. Breaking the quiet
11. Aircraft accident report no. 79-139
12. Sestina on history and the snow
13. In excess of jurisdiction
14. By Ships We Live
15. Censorship
12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):
By Ships We Live
Bio /Bibliography:
Bill Sewell was born in Athens, Greece, in 1951 and spent his childhood in Southern Europe, the Middle East, and England, where he received his primary school education. He came to New Zealand at fourteen. Sewell was educated at the Universities of Auckland and Otago, completing a Ph.D. in German at the latter, where he also lectured. Thereafter, he worked as an editor with John McIndoe and the University of Otago Press. In 1981 and 1982, he was awarded the Burns Felowship at the University of Otago, and in 1982 published his first volume of poetry, Solo Flight. 1983 saw the release of his next collection, Wheels Within Wheels. A third collection, Making the Far Land Glow, appeared in 1986. Sewell had three further volumes of poetry published before his death in January 2003 - Erebus (1999), El Sur (2001), and The Ballad of Fifty-one (2003). In the late 1980s, Sewell moved to Wellington and took a law degree at Victoria University, after which he worked as a legal researcher for the New Zealand Law Commission. From 1997 to 2002 he was co-editor of New Zealand Books. Sewell also co-edited a number of non-fiction works and three collections of poetry. He was posthumously awarded the first Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry in 2003.
Poetry:
Solo Flight, Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1982
Wheels Within Wheels, Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1983
Making the Far Land Glow, Dunedin: McIndoe, 1986
Erebus: A Poem, Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1999
El Sur, Wellington: Pemmican Press, 2001
The Ballad of Fifty-one, Wellington: HeadworX, 2003
Edited:
Balancing on Blue (with Jeanette Stace), Wellington: New Zealand Poetry Society, 1991
Ginger Stardust: A Selection of Poems and Haiku from the 1992 New Zealand International Poetry Competition (with Jeanette Stace), Wellington: New Zealand Poetry Society, 1992
Sons of the Fathers: New Zealand Men Write About Their Fathers, Auckland: Tandem Press, 1997
Under Review: A Selection from New Zealand Books 1991-1996 (with Lauris Edmond and Harry Ricketts), Lincoln: Lincoln University Press, 1997
Essential New Zealand Poems (with Lauris Edmond), Auckland: Godwit, 2001
Other Works:
A Guide to the Rimutaka Forest Park, Wellington: GP Books, 1989
Contents:
Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):
Sad Joke on a Marae
Parihaka
Hinemoa’s daughter
six million
Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):
CD36
1. Sad Joke On A Marae
2. Whakapapa
3. Parihaka
4. The Moon
5. soft leaf falls of light
6. lady Anorexia
7. Hinemoa’s daughter
8. tangiwai
9. rawene
10. Huri Huri
11. six million
12. peace lanterns
13. a great seamstress
14. invisible
15. on Paekakariki beach
16. to Te Rerenga Wairua
12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):
Hinemoa's daughter
Bio /Bibliography:
Apirana Taylor was born in Wellington in 1955, of Te Whanau a Apanui, Ngati Porou and Ngati Ruanui descent. In addition to poetry, he has written short stories, criticism and a novel, He Tangi Aroha (1993). Taylor is also an actor and playwright, and was a prominent member of the Maori theatre cooperative Te Ohu Whakaari. He has taught drama and creative writing at Whitireia Community Polytechnic, and has held writing fellowships at Massey University (1996) and the University of Canterbury (2002).
Poetry:
Eyes of the Ruru, Wellington: Voice Press, 1979
3 Shades (with Lindsay Rabbitt and L. E. Scott), Wellington: Voice Press, 1981
Soft Leaf Falls of the Moon, Auckland: Pohutukawa Press, 1996
Prose:
He Rau Aroha, Auckland: Penguin, 1986
Ki Te Ao: New Stories, Auckland: Penguin, 1990
He Tangi Aroha, Wellington: Huia Publishers, 1993
Bell Bird is Small: Short Stories, Auckland: Pohutukawa Press, 2000
Drama:
Kohanga and Whāea Kairau, Auckland: Pohutukawa Press, 1999
Contents:
Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):
Dreams
Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):
CD 37
1. Brazilian trilogy: Um Velho Baiano
2. Do Violeta Ao Vermelho
3. Almas Que Amalgamas
4. Chapin Mill Poems [1-3]
5. Beating the Drum
6. Frank Sinatra’s Hat
7. Dreams
8. South of Taupo:
Silica Rapids
Mangatepopo Stream
Waihi Cemetery
Lake Rotopounamu
9. Barrier Crossings [1-9]
12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):
Dreams
Bio /Bibliography:
Richard von Sturmer was born in Devonport, on Auckland’s North Shore, and educated at Westlake Boys High School and Auckland University. In 1992 he left New Zealand to undertake ten years of Zen training at the Rochester Zen Center, a Buddhist Community in upstate New York. In 2003 he returned to live and work in Auckland.
Writing History:
1976 Writes script for David Blythe's first film, Circadian Rhythms.
1978-80 Songwriter for several NZ music groups: “The Plague”, “Blam Blam Blam”, and “Avant Garage”.
1979-80 Writes scripts and performs with cabaret group “Inside Information”.
1980 Writes first play, The Green Lion, performed at 100m2 in Auckland.
1982-86 Writes performance pieces and with Charlotte Wrightson works as The Humanimals, touring New Zealand and Australia during this period
1986 Writes second play, The Search For Otto, staged in the Auckland School of Architecture's design theatre.
1987-88 Writes first book, We Xerox Your Zebras, a collection of prose-poems.
1989-91 Writes second book of poetic stories, A Network of Dissolving Threads.
1998 Collaborates with photographer Joseph Sorrentino on a third book, Images From The Center, writing seven essays on Zen Practice.
1993-2002 Works as editor of Zen Bow, the Rochester Zen Center’s quarterly publication.
2003 Receives the brief Writer’s Award for a two month writer-in-residency on Great Barrier Island.
Books Published:
We Xerox Your Zebras, Modern House, 1988
A Network of Dissolving Threads, Auckland University Press, 1991
Images From The Center, Rochester Zen Center, 1998
Anthologies:
Moments of Invention: Portraits of 21 NZ Writers, by Gregory O'Brien
New Zealand Haiku Anthology (NZ Poetry Society, 1993)
Dangerous Landscapes: An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry, compiled by Rangi Faith
Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, edited by William Higginson
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, edited by Bornholdt, O’Brien & Williams
We Don’t Know How Lucky We Are: Collection of NZ Comic Verse, edited by Harry Ricketts and Hugh Roberts
The Second New Zealand Haiku Anthology (NZ Poetry Society, 1998)
Up Against the Window: American Haibun & Haiga, edited by Jim Kacian
The Leaves Are Back on the Tree: International Haiku Anthology, edited by Zoe Saverna
Bits of Itself: Haiku Society of America 2002 Anthology, edited by Jerry Ball & Wendy Wright
Jack Ross & Jan Kemp
