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 Many of the details recorded here are therefore significantly out of date.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.
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– 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
Contents:
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):
A Game
The Pilgrim Fathers
Camping
Smokers for Celibacy
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
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
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)
Contents:
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):
Poem in the Matukituki Valley
Prospector
The Fallen House
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
Bio /Bibliography:
James K. Baxter was born in Dunedin, the son of pioneering pacifist Archibald Baxter, author of We Will Not Cease (1939), and Millicent Brown, daughter of Professor John Macmillan Brown. These two sides of his personality, the idealist and the intellectual, warred in him for the rest of his life.
His first book of poems, Beyond the Palisade, was published in 1944, and he was immediately hailed as a wunderkind. From then until his death in 1972 there was never a moment when he was not at the forefront of New Zealand literary life – in Christchurch in the late 40s, in Wellington in the 50s, and (most famously) as a commune organizer at Jerusalem on the Whanganui River in the late 60s and early 70s. Out of this came his most famous (and arguably his finest) book, the Jerusalem Sonnets (1970).
As a critic, dramatist, social commentator, Baxter published widely, but his monument remains that amazing profusion of poems, which continue to address issues of race, class, and spirituality of vital concern to all New Zealanders.
His Collected Poems appeared in 1980, followed by Collected Plays in 1982. His critical prose has been assembled in James K. Baxter as Critic (1978).
Selected Bibliography
Poetry:
Beyond the Palisade. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1944.
Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1948.
The Fallen House. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1953.
In Fires of No Return. London: Oxford University Press, 1958.
Howrah Bridge and Other Poems. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.
Pig Island Letters. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
The Rock Woman: Selected Poems. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Jerusalem Sonnets. Dunedin: Bibliography Room, University of Otago, 1970.
Jerusalem Daybook. Wellington: Price Milburn, 1971.
Autumn Testament. Wellington: Price Milburn, 1972.
Runes. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.
The Labyrinth: Some Uncollected Poems 1944-1972. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.
The Tree House and Other Poems for Children. Wellington: Price Milburn, 1974.
The Bone Chanter: Unpublished Poems 1945-1972. Edited by J. E. Weir. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1976.
The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady: Various Uncollected and Unpublished Poems. Edited by J. E. Weir. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Collected Poems. Edited by J. E. Weir. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Selected Poems. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1982.
The Essential Baxter. Edited by J. E. Weir. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Cold Spring: Baxter's Unpublished Early Collection. Edited by Paul Millar. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Plays:
Collected Plays. Auckland; New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Prose:
James K. Baxter as Critic: a Selection from his Literary Criticism. Edited by Frank McKay. Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books, 1978.
Spark to a waiting fuse: James K. Baxter's correspondence with Noel Ginn, 1942-46. Edited by Paul Millar. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001.
Biographical:
Oliver, W. James K. Baxter: a portrait. Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1983.
McKay, Frank. The Life of James K. Baxter. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Contents:
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):
Death of a Dog
The Nose
The Happy Army
Shopping with Brigitte Bardot
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.
Contents:
Classic New Zealand Poets In Performance (2006):
from In Your Presence:
'I read your signature'
'Morepork, Shrewd Sentry Owl'
Biography / Selected Bibliography
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
Bio /Bibliography:
Born into a wealthy mercantile family in Dunedin, Charles Brasch was educated at Waitaki Boys High, then New Zealand’s best-known public school, and subsequently went on to study (and pursue his own writing) at Oxford. On his return to New Zealand in 1931, he continued to publish poetry, and was an important contributor to Phoenix, Auckland University’s new literary quarterly. After a confrontation with his father over his refusal to work in the family business, he returned to live in Europe, where he stayed till the end of the Second World War (with brief visits home)
His first book of poems, The Land and the People, was published in 1939 by the Caxton Press. The alliances he had formed with Denis Glover, Allen Curnow and other members of the New Zealand literary avant-garde bore fruit when he founded Landfall, still New Zealand’s foremost literary periodical, on his return to New Zealand in 1945.
It is as Landfall’s founding editor that he made his greatest mark. He ran the magazine for twenty years, 1947-1966, bringing a new seriousness and professionalism to New Zealand letters.
He continued to work as a poet, however, publishing new collections every few years. A memoir, Indirections, was published posthumously in 1980, and his Collected Poems in 1984.
Selected Bibliography
Poetry:
The Land and the People, and Other Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1939.
Disputed Ground: Poems 1939-45. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1948.
The Estate, and Other Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1957.
Ambulando: Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1964.
Not Far Off: Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1969.
Home Ground: Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1974.
Collected Poems. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Translations:
Amrita Pritam. Black Rose. New Delhi: Nagmani, 1967.
Poems by Esenin. Translated by Charles Brasch and Peter Soskice. Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press, 1970.
Plays:
The Quest: Words for a Mime Play. London: The Compass Players, 1946.
Prose:
Present Company: Reflections on the Arts. Auckland: Blackwood and Janet Paul for the Auckland Gallery Associates, 1966.
(with C.R. Nicholson) Hallensteins: the First Century, 1873-1973. Dunedin: Hallenstein Bros., 1973.
Such Separate Creatures: Stories. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1973.
Indirections: a Memoir, 1909-1947. Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
The Universal Dance: a Selection from the Critical Prose Writings of Charles Brasch. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1981.
Edited:
Landfall Country. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1962.
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:
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):
House and Land
The Unhistoric Story
The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
A Dead Lamb
Any Time 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
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
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
Contents:
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):
Before a Funeral
Scar Tissue
yellow-eyed penguin
Autumn in Canada
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
Frances Edmond [photograph: Jan Kemp]
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
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.
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):
Full Fathom Five
A Farewell
The Cave
Cupid
Walking on my Feet
Biography / Selected Bibliography
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
Bio /Bibliography:
Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn was born in Auckland in 1904, a descendant of the missionary W. T. Fairburn, who came to New Zealand with Marsden in 1819. He attended Auckland Grammar School, where he met R. A. K. Mason, but did not matriculate due to the compulsory mathematics requirement. After leaving school he worked as an insurance clerk, resigning in 1926 to pursue his writing. He left New Zealand in 1930 to travel to England. His first volume of poetry, He Shall Not Rise, was also published in that year.
While in England, he met and married a fellow New Zealander, art student Jocelyn Mays. At the end of 1932 they left depression-ridden England to return to New Zealand, where he joined the thousands of unemployed working on the roads. His long poem Dominion, published in 1938, is a portrayal of New Zealand at that time.
He was an active member of the literary circle centred around Christchurch printer Denis Glover’s Caxton Press, and wrote for a number of radical journals, including Phoenix, Sirocco, and Tomorrow. In 1934 he took on relief work as assistant secretary of the Auckland branch of the NZ Farmers’ Union and sub-editor of Farming First.
In 1942 he was called up for military service, then, in 1943, the year Caxton published his Poems 1929-1941, was manpowered into broadcasting.
In 1948 he became a tutor in the English Department of Auckland University, and in 1950 a lecturer at Elam, the University’s school of Fine Arts.
He died of cancer in 1957. His Collected Poems, edited by Denis Glover, appeared in 1966, and a volume of Selected Poems, edited and introduced by Mac Jackson, in 1995. As well as a poet and polemicist, Fairburn was also a broadcaster and fabric designer, an early environmentalist, and loved the outdoors – tramping, swimming, boating and golf.
He remains one of New Zealand’s most popular writers.
Selected Bibliography
Poetry:
He Shall Not Rise: Poems. London: Columbia Press, 1930.
The County. London: Lahr, 1931.
Dominion. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1938
[with Allen Curnow, R.A.K. Mason and Denis Glover]. Recent Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1941
Poems 1929-41. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1943
The Rakehelly Man and Other Verses. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1946.
Strange Rendezvous: Poems 1929-41, with additions. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1952
Three Poems: Dominion, The Voyage, To a Friend in the Wilderness. Wellington: New Zealand University Press, 1952.
The Disadvantages of Being Dead and Other Sharp Verses. Wellington: Mermaid Press, 1958.
Poetry Harbinger, introducing A.R.D. Fairburn (6 foot 3) and Denis Glover (11 stone 7). Auckland: Pilgrim Press, 1958.
Collected Poems. Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1966.
Selected Poems. Edited by Mac Jackson. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995
Prose:
A Discussion on Communism between A.R.D. Fairburn and S.W. Scott. Auckland: Auckland District Party Committee, Communist Party Committee, Communist Party of New Zealand, 1936.
Who Said Red Ruin. Auckland: Griffin Press, 1938.
The Sky is a Limpet (a Pollytickle Parotty). Devonport: Phillips Press, 1939
We New Zealanders. Wellington. Progressive Publishing Society, 1944
How to Ride a Bicycle in 17 Lovely Colours. Auckland: A.R.D. Fairburn & the Pelorus Press, 1947
The Woman Problem and Other Prose. Edited by Denis Glover and G. Fairburn. Auckland: Blackwood & Janet Paul, 1967.
The Letters of A. R. D. Fairburn. Edited by Lauris Edmond. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Biographical:
McNeish, James. Walking on my feet: A. R. D. Fairburn: a kind of biography. Auckland: Collins, 1983.
Trussell, Denys. Fairburn. Auckland University Press: Oxford University Press, 1984.
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:
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):
The Magpies
Threnody
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
Bio /Bibliography:
Denis Glover was born in Dunedin, though most of his childhood (after his parents’ divorce) was spent in New Plymouth. Educated at Auckland Grammar (where he met the printer Bob Lowry), he transferred in his sixth form year to Christ’s College, Christchurch, completing his education with a BA in English and Greek from Canterbury University College (1930-34).
A keen boxer and climber, his passion for writing led him to printing and journalism. Inspired by the success of Lowry’s student magazine Phoenix, he began the magazine Oriflamme in 1933. It was suppressed by the authorities as a result of an article entitled “Sex and the Undergraduate.”
In 1935 he founded the Caxton Press, which published volumes of verse by Fairburn, Mason, Curnow, and Glover himself – including the notorious Arraignment of Paris (1937), a lampoon on journalist C. A. Marris’s annual volumes of New Zealand Best Poems.
Volunteering for the Navy during the war, he served with distinction on the Arctic convoys and the D-Day landings. On his return to New Zealand in 1944 he threw himself into publishing with renewed energy. The war poems included in The Wind and the Sand: Poems 1934-44, are among his finest.
His later career was prolific and turbulent. Alcoholism poisoned many of his professional associations, but he continued to write, and left behind a substantial legacy of work both in prose and poetry when he died in 1980.
Selected Bibliography
Poetry:
Another Argo: Three Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Club Press, 1935.
Thistledown. Christchurch: Caxton Club Press, 1935.
The Arraignment of Paris. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1937.
Thirteen Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1939.
Till the Star Speak. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1939.
Cold Tongue. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1940.
The Wind and the Sand: Poems 1934-44. Christchurch: Caxton, 1945.
Summer Flowers: Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1946.
Sings Harry and Other Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1951.
Arawata Bill: a Sequence of Poems. Christchurch: Pegasus, 1953.
Since Then. Wellington: Mermaid Press, 1957.
Enter Without Knocking. Christchurch: Pegasus, 1964.
Sharp Edge Up: Verses and Satires. Auckland: Blackwood & Janet Paul, 1968.
To a Particular Woman. Christchurch: Nag's Head Press, 1970.
Myself When Young. Christchurch: Nag's Head Press, 1970.
Dancing to My Tune. Wellington: Cats Paw Press, 1974.
Wellington Harbour. Wellington: Cats Paw Press, 1974.
Clutha: River Poems. Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1977.
Come High Water. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1977.
For Whom the Cock Crows. Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1978.
Or Hawk or Basilisk: Verses. Wellington: Catspaw Press, 1978.
To Friends in Russia. Wellington: Nag's Head Press, 1979.
Towards Banks Peninsula: a Sequence. Christchurch: Pegasus, 1979.
Selected Poems. With an introduction by Allen Curnow. Auckland: Penguin, 1981.
Selected Poems. Edited by Bill Manhire. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995.
Prose:
Three Short Stories. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1936.
D Day. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1944.
Diary to a Woman. Wellington: Cats-Paw Press, 1971.
Men of God. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1978.
Hot Water Sailor 1912-1962; & Landlubber Ho! 1963-1980. Auckland: Collins, 1981.
Biographical:
Ogilvie, Gordon. Denis Glover: his life. Auckland: Godwit, 1999.
Contents:
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):
No Problem, But Not Easy
Cassandra’s Daughter
Today is the Piano’s Birthday
And, yes
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.
Contents:
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):
A Hard Country
Cloud
A Whiff of the Old Adam
Villanelle for a Smile
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
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
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.
Contents:
Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):
Singing to the Ancestors
Words for Blair Peach
The Seventies
Coming and Going
[Recorded as
Louis Johnson Reads his Own Poems (Radio NZ, c.1979)]
Bio /Bibliography:
A prolific and generous writer, Louis Johnson’s first book of poems Stanza and Scene appeared in 1945. It was followed by many others over the next forty years. He came to early prominence with the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook series, which he founded and edited from 1951 to 1964.
A Wellingtonian, and strong supporter of the other writers (such as James K. Baxter and Anton Vogt) based in that city, he soon came into conflict with Allen Curnow’s nationalist agenda for New Zealand poetry (as described in the series of canon-building anthologies culminating in Curnow’s Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (1961)). The idea of a Wellington school dedicated to urban realities, contrasting with an Auckland school obsessed with regional landscapes and national identity thus came into being (the fullest discussion of this dichotomy comes in Kendrick Smithyman’s A Way of Saying (1965)).
Johnson left New Zealand in 1968, living first in New Guinea, then in Australia, where he worked as a journalist and an academic. He returned to New Zealand in 1980 as Victoria University’s writing fellow, and founded a new press and annual anthology – Antipodes: New Writing (1987). This venture was, however, short-lived, as he died in 1988 while holding the Katherine Mansfield Menton fellowship.
Interest in his work has continued to grow since his death, with the publication of his Selected Poems in 2000, and the annual Louis Johnson New Writers Award, designed to encourage young talent.
Poetry:
Stanza and Scene: Poems. Wellington: Handcraft Press, 1945.
The Sun Among the Ruins. Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1951.
Roughshod Among the Lilies. Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1951.
[with James K. Baxter & Anton Vogt]. Poems Unpleasant. Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1952.
The Dark Glass. Poems in pamphlet, 3. Wellington: Handcraft Press, 1955.
News of Molly Bloom: The passionate man and the casual man: Two Poems. Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1955.
New Worlds for Old: Poems. Wellington: Capricorn Press, 1957.
Bread and a Pension: Selected Poems. Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1964.
The Glassy Mountain: Selected Poems. Wellington: Poetry Magazine, Wellington Teachers' College, 1965.
Land Like a Lizard, New Guinea Poems. Milton, Queensland: Jacaranda Press, 1970.
Onion. Dunedin: Caveman Press, 1972.
Fires and Patterns. Milton, Queensland: Jacaranda, 1975.
Coming & Going: Poems. Wellington: Mallinson Rendel, 1982.
Winter Apples. Wellington: Mallinson Rendel, 1984.
True Confessions of the Last Cannibal. Plimmerton: Antipodes Press, 1986.
Dragons 'n' Things: Stories and Poems. Wellington: Mallinson Rendel in association with Antipodes Press, 1989.
Last Poems. Plimmerton: Antipodes Press, 1990.
The Perfect Symbol: poems unpublished and uncollected. Edited by Terry Sturm. Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press, 1998.
Selected Poems. Edited by Terry Sturm. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2000.
Prose:
Holiday in the Capital. Photos by Ans Westra. Wellington: School Publications Branch, Dept of Education, 1968.
Edited:
New Zealand Poetry Yearbook, vols 1-11. Wellington: Reed, 1951-1964.
Antipodes New Writing. Plimmerton: Antipodes Press, 1987.
Jack Ross & Jan Kemp
