Contents

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 Many of the details recorded here are therefore significantly out of date.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

• 1974 = Included in the Waiata Archive
• LP = Included on the NZ Poets read Their Work records
• 2004 = Included in the Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive
• Taonga = Included among the 12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004)
• 2006 = Included in Classic NZ Poets in Performance
• 2007 = Included in Contemporary NZ Poets in Performance
• 2008 = Included in New NZ Poets in Performance
  

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

Ascroft, Nick

[Photograph: Jan Kemp]

Nick Ascroft (b. 1973)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

The Badder & the Better
All of the Other Ascrofts Are Dead
Cheap Present

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

Tusiata Avia (b. 1966)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

My Dog
My First Time in Samoa
Wild Dogs Under My Skirt

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.

Barford, Serie

Serie (Cherie) Barford (b. 1960)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Plea to the Spanish Lady
God is near the Equator

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

Bornholdt, Jenny

Jenny Bornholdt (b. 1960)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Rodnie and her bicycles
Bus stop
Weather
Then Murray came
Please, pay attention

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

Brown, James

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

James Brown (b. 1966)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Loneliness
Soup From a Stone
The Crewe Cres Kids
The Day I Stopped Writing Poetry

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

Camp, Kate

[Creative NZ (2011)]

Kate Camp (b. 1972)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Postcard
Documentaries
Backroads
Water of the Sweet Life
Guests

[Recorded at the Going West Books & Writers Festival (17/9/06)]


Bio /Bibliography:

Kate Camp was born in Wellington in 1972. She has a BA Hons in English from Victoria University, and works as a reviewer on print and radio. Her first collection of poetry, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars (1998) won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. She was Writer in Residence at Waikato University in 2002.

POETRY:

Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1998.
Realia. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001.
Beauty Sleep. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2005.

CRITICISM:


On Kissing. Montana Estate Essay Series. Wellington: Four Winds Press, 2002.

Colquhoun, Glenn

[Scoop Media]

Glenn Colquhoun (b. 1964)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

from Whakapapa
She asked me if she took one pill for her heart …
Lost property
On the death of my grandmother

[Recorded at the Going West Books & Writers Festival (13-14/9/02 & 21/9/03)]


Bio /Bibliography:

Glenn Colquhoun is a doctor as well as a writer. His time in the Te Tii community in the Bay of Islands provided the inspiration for his first book of poetry, The Art of Standing Upright (1999), which won the Jessie Mackay Award for best first book of poems at the 2000 Montana Book Awards. His third book, Playing God (2002), won the Poetry category of the Montana Book Awards in 2003, and then went on to win the coveted Readers’ Choice award, the first poetry title to do so. His latest book, How We Fell (2006) combines poetry with graphic novel illustrations by Nikki Slade Robinson. He lives on the Kapiti coast near Wellington.

POETRY:

The Art of Walking Upright. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 1999.
An Explanation of Poetry to My Father. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2000.
Playing God. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2002.
How We Fell (A Love Story). Illustrated by Nikki Slade Robinson. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2006.

CRITICISM:

Jumping Ship. Montana Estate Essay Series. Wellington: Four Winds Press, 2004.

FOR CHILDREN:

Uncle Glenn and Me. Illustrated by Kevin Wildman. Auckland: Reed, 1999.
Uncle Glenn and Me Too. Illustrated by Kevin Wildman. Auckland: Reed, 2004.
Mr Short, Mr Thin, Mr Bald and Mr Dog. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2005.

Chanwai-Earle, Lynda

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Lynda Chanwai-Earle (b. 1965)

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).

Howard, David

[Photograph: Ella Rushton (December, 2007)]

David Howard (b. 1959)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Talking Sideways
Social Studies
On the Eighth Day

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.

Johnston, Andrew

[Poetry Archive]

Andrew Johnston (b. 1963)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

How to Talk
How to Walk
Les Baillessats
The Present

[Recorded at Braeburn Studio, Wellington (24/4/07)]


Bio /Bibliography:

Born in Upper Hutt in 1963, Andrew Johnston won the New Zealand Book Award with his first book of poems, How to Talk (1993). He edited the Evening Post books page between 1991 and 1996, and worked as an editor for the International Herald Tribune in France for a number of years. At present he edits The Page, an online digest of poems and essays from the web.

In 1991 he received a Louis Johnson new writers bursary, and he attended the International Writers Program at the university of Iowa in 1995. He is the 2007 J. D. Stout fellow at the Stout Institute in Wellington, where he is writing a book on contemporary New Zealand poetry.

POETRY:

How to Talk. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1993.
The Sounds. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1996.
The Open Window: New and Selected Poems. Wellington: Victoria University Press / UK: Arc, 1999.
Birds of Europe. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2000.
Sol. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2007.

EDITED:

The Page: Poetry, essays, ideas. Available: thepage.name/

WEBSITE:

Andrew Johnston. Available: andrewjohnston.org

Jackson, Anna

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Anna Jackson (b. 1967)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

The hen of tiredness
Takahe
On the road with Rose
In a minute

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

Kassabova, Kapka

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Kapka Kassabova (b. 1973)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Preparation for the big emptiness
One morning like a sleeper
My life in two parts
A city of pierced amphorae

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD20

1. Preparation for the big emptiness
2. Nothing that you can take
3. Mirages
4. One morning like a sleeper
5. My life in two parts [1-2]
6. The Complete Circle
7. Amnesia at Eaglereach
8. A city of pierced amphorae

Bio / Bibliography:

Kapka Kassabova is an Auckland poet, novelist, reviewer, journalist, and travel writer. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, she emigrated with her family to New Zealand at eighteen when her father was offered a teaching position at the University of Otago. Upon arriving in Dunedin, Kassabova immediately enrolled at the University of Otago, from which she graduated with a BA (hons.) in French in 1996. While at university, Kassabova wrote her first poems in English, her fourth language (she had been writing poetry in Bulgarian since she was eight); some of these would be published in her first collection, All Roads Lead to the Sea (1997). After receiving her degree, Kassabova left Dunedin and enrolled in the Creative Writing programme at Victoria University, Wellington. (She graduated with an MA in 1998.) While there, she wrote the poems published her second collection, Dismemberment, and began working on her first novel, eventually published as Reconnaissance (1999). Since then, she has published a further novel, Love in the Land of Midas (2000), and a third collection of poems, Someone Else’s Life (2003).

Kassabova was awarded a Sargeson Fellowship in 1999; in 2000, Reconaissance received the Commonwealth Prize for best first book in the South East Asia/Pacific region. In 2003, she was awarded the Creative New Zealand Berlin Residency. She currently teaches in the English Department at the University of Auckland, and writes regularly for magazines and newspapers.

Poetry:

All Roads Lead to the Sea, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1997
Dismemberment, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998
Someone Else’s Life, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003

Novels:

Reconnaissance, Auckland: Penguin, 1999
Love in the Land of Midas, Auckland: Penguin, 2000

Kennedy, Anne

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Anne Kennedy (b. 1959)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

I was a feminist in the eighties
Cat Tales
Whenua (2)

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD21

1. from 100 Traditional Smiles [3 & 64]
2. from Musica Ficta:
The sudden caught breath of a windchime
Five, no Four beats in Arthur Rubinstein
3. from Sing Song:
Whenua (1)
Cataract
Cat Tales
Wet Patch
I was a feminist in the 80s
Love Poem (1)
Whenua (2)

Bio /Bibliography:

Anne Kennedy has published a novella and two novels. Her short fictions have featured widely in New Zealand journals and anthologies. She has been awarded the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award, the ICI Award and a Literary Fellowship at the University of Auckland. Anne Kennedy works as a scriptwriter and editor, and as a reviewer. She lives in Auckland with her partner, Robert Sullivan, and their two children.

Novels

A Boy and His Uncle (Picador, 1998)
Musica Ficta (UQP/AUP, 1993)
100 Traditional Smiles (VUP, 1988)

Short Fiction

in many anthologies including:
The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (1996)
The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories (1992)
Some Other Country (Bridget Williams, 1992)
The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories (1989)
Goodbye to Romance (Allen and Unwin, 1989)

Published in many literary journals including:

Landfall, Sport, NZ Listener, Southerly (Australia), JAAM

Lloyd, Thérèse

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Thérèse Lloyd (b. 1974)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Forecast
One Hundred Hours
Scorpion Daughter

[Recorded in Island Bay, Wellington (22/1/07)]


Bio /Bibliography:

Thérèse Lloyd was born in Napier in 1974, and was brought up there and in Christchurch. She has performed at many literary festivals and live poetry venues, including the Nelson Folk festival in 1999 and the Wellington Fringe festival in 2000. She completed her Masters in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington in 2006, and was awarded the Schaeffer scholarship to the International Writing Program in Iowa for the academic year 2007-2008. She now lives in Paekakariki with her husband Lee Posna.

POETRY:

[with Cliff Fell] Box of Birds. Nelson, 1999.
[with Clinton Gorst, Niki Jones, Sarah Laing and Helen Lehndorf] Poetry for Real. Wellington: Fringe, 2000.
many things happened. Wellington: Pania Press, 2006.
Other Animals. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2013.

[Image: "Ursus Arctos," by Jane Dodd / Photograph: Haru Sameshima]

Macassey, Olivia

Olivia Macassey (b. 1975)

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.

Neale, Emma

Emma Neale (b. 1969)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Spoken For
Jane Coleridge
You’re Telling Me
Confessional Poem
Caroline Helstone

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD26

1. Spoken For
2. O, Pioneers!
3. Jane Coleridge
4. You’re Telling Me
5. Confessional Poem
6. Owl Glass
7. Caroline Helstone

Bio / Bibliography:

Emma Neale was born in Dunedin in 1969. After three years in California (1977-1980) Emma attended Karori West Normal School, Wellington Girls’ College, and then Victoria University of Wellington, where she gained a Senior Scholarship and First Class Honours in English. Emma moved to England at the end of 1991, where she gained an MA in Anglo-American Literary Relations, and a PhD in English Literature at University College, London, while working part-time as a tutor, temp, and in publishing and marketing. During her studies in England she was awarded a New Zealand Federation of University Women Fellowship, an Overseas Student Award, and the UCL Celia Phillips Memorial Award. She returned to NZ at the end of 1999, and works as a freelance writer and editor in Dunedin. She is married with one son.

Doctoral Thesis:

“Why Can’t She Stay Home? Expatriation and Back-migration in the work of Katherine Mansfield, Robin Hyde, Janet Frame and Fleur Adcock”. Awarded PhD degree, University College, London, England, 1999

Poetry:

Sleeve-notes (Godwit, Random House NZ, 1999)
How to Make a Million (Godwit, Random House NZ, 2002)

Novels:

Night Swimming (Vintage, Random House NZ, 1998; Anchor, Transworld, Australia, 1999)
Little Moon (Vintage, Random House NZ, 2001)
Double Take (Vintage, Random House NZ, 2003)

As Editor:

Creative Juices (Flamingo, HarperCollins NZ, 2002)

Newton, John

John Newton (b. 1959)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Lunch
Ferret trap
Inland
Opening the Book

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD26

1. Lunch
2. Ferret trap
3. The chicken factory
4. Beetle
5. Inland
6. Lyric
7. Opening the book
8. Georgic

Bio / Bibliography:

b. Blenheim, 1959. Grew up on a sheep farm at Port Underwood in the Marlborough Sounds. BA, MA University of Canterbury (MA thesis on contemporary New Zealand poetry); PhD University of Melbourne (thesis on Sylvia Plath). Taught for two years in the English Department at Melbourne, 1993-94; since 1995 in the English Department at the University of Canterbury. Lives by the beach at New Brighton with partner Sarah and highly-indulged fur family. Spends as much time as possible at a second home in Middlemarch, Central Otago. Currently occupied with a research project on James K. Baxter and Maaori.

Books:

Tales from the Angler’s Eldorado (Untold Books, 1985).

Selected periodical publications:

Landfall, Listener, Islands, Rambling Jack, Sport, Vital Writing, Poetry Australia, Mattara Prize Anthology, Republica, Verse (Glasgow).

Selected anthology publications:

The New Poetry (ed. Paul & Edmond, 1987); The Caxton Press Anthology: New Zealand Poetry 1972-86 (ed. Williams, 1987); The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry (ed. Evans, McQueen & Wedde, 1989); 100 New Zealand Poems (ed. Manhire, 1993); The Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Poetry (ed. Bornholdt, O'Brien, Williams, 1997); Essential New Zealand Poems (ed. Edmond & Sewell, 2000).

Selected critical articles:

“Sherman Alexie’s Authoethnography,” Contemporary Literature 42.2 (2001), 413-28.
“The South Island Myth: A Short History,” Australian Canadian Studies 18. 1 & 2 (2000), 23-39.
“Ghost-towns and Competences: Teaching Historical Discontinuity,” English in Aotearoa 41 (2000), 21-27.
“The Typewriter in the Next Room,” Landfall 200 (2000), 141-52.
“Colonialism above the Snowline: Baughan, Ruskin and the South Island Myth,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 34.2 (1999), 85-96.

O'Brien, Gregory

Gregory O'Brien (b. 1961)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Epithalamium, Wellington
It will be better then
Solomon singing
from Great Lake
There is only one

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD26

1. Corfu from below Ascension
2. Epithalamium, Wellington
3. It will be better then
4. Solomon singing
5. Numbers 1 & 2
6. There is only one

Bio / Bibliography:

Gregory O’Brien is a Wellington-based poet, reviewer, editor, anthologist and painter. Born in Matamata in 1961, he trained first as a journalist, working in that capacity in Northland before returning to tertiary study at the University of Auckland. (He received a BA in English and Art History in 1984.) Since then, he has worked as a freelance writer, editor and illustrator. He has also exhibited widely as a painter, and is the author of small monographs on the artists Nigel Brown and Ralph Hotere. His first book of poems, Location of the Least Person, appeared in 1987. He has since published a further six collections of poems, a verse novella, Malachi (1993), and a novel, Diesel Mystic (1989). O’Brien has also been active as an art and literary critic - his reviews and art criticism appear regularly in New Zealand newspapers, magazines and journals. He has also written a number of exhibition catalogues. In 1996 he co-edited an anthology of New Zealand love poems, My Heart Goes Swimming, and in 1997 was co-editor of the Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English. 2002’s After Bathing at Baxter’s is a collection of essays and notes on New Zealand artists and writers.

Poetry:

Location of the Least Person, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1987
Dunes and Barns, Auckland: Modern House, 1988
Man With a Child’s Violin, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1990
Great Lake, Sydney: Local Consumption Publications, 1991
Days Beside Water, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993
Irishman & Industry: poems, Auckland: Pear Tree Press, 1998
Winter I Was, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1999

Novels:

Diesel Mystic: a Novel, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1989
Malachi: an Entertainment, North Adelaide: South Australian Publishing Ventures and Futures, 1993

Anthologies:

My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems, (ed. with Jenny Bornholdt), Auckland: Godwit, 1996
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, (ed. with Jenny Bornholdt and Mark Williams), Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997

Other works:

Moments of Invention: Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers, Auckland: Heinemann Reed, 1988
Nigel Brown, Auckland: Random Century, 1991
Hotere: Out the Black Window: Ralph Hotere’s Work with New Zealand Poets, Auckland: Godwit, 1997
After bathing at Baxter’s: essays and notebooks, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2002

Pirie, Mark

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Mark Pirie (b. 1974)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Good Looks
Making a Point
Progress
The Third Form

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD28

1. This Guy
2. Good Looks
3. Making a Point
4. The Story
5. No BIG WORDS
6. Just for the Record
7. Progress
8. Letter Home to Heartbreak Hotel
9. Snoopy & Linus
10. The World’s Greatest Explorer
11. The New House
12. Dreaming of Good Lines for You
13. Worlds
14. The Third Form
15. The Trup
16. Competition
17. Tender Contempt
18. So, You Want To Be Respected Like Curnow

Bio / Bibliography:

Mark Pirie is the managing editor of HeadworX. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1974 and is a graduate of Victoria and Otago universities. In 1995 he initiated the young writers’ magazine JAAM (Just Another Art Movement) and has co-edited the magazine ever since. His other publications include the exciting anthology of young New Zealand writing, The NeXt Wave (University of Otago Press, 1998), a short fiction book, Swing, and seven books of poems: The Blues, Shoot, No Joke, Reading the Will, Dumber, Gallery, and Bullet Poems in Four Rounds.

He has published his criticism, poetry and fiction in a wide range of journals both in New Zealand and overseas, including the Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK), Salt (Australia), Southern Ocean Review (NZ), New Zealand Listener, Creative Forum (India), Poetry NZ, Trout: An Internet Journal (NZ), and New Zealand Books.

Poetry:

Shoot (Christchurch: Sudden Valley Press, 1999)
No Joke (Christchurch: Sudden Valley Press, 2001)
The Blues (Paekakariki: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2001)
Reading the Will (Christchurch: Sudden Valley Press, 2002)
Dumber (Paekakariki: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2003)
Gallery: a Selection (Great Wilbraham, Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2003)
Bullet poems in four rounds (Paekakariki: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2004)

Fiction:

Swing and other stories (Paekakariki: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2002)

Edited:

New Zealand writing: the NeXt wave (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1998)
With Ron Riddell and Saray Torres, First Wellington International Poetry Festival Anthology (Wellington: HeadworX, 2003)
With Michael O’Leary, Greatest Hits (Wellington: JAAM Publishing Collective, 2004)