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 Many of the details recorded here are therefore significantly out of date.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

Brunton, Alan

[Photograph: nzepc]

Alan Brunton (1946-2002)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

The Man on Crazies Hill
from Waves

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD05

1. Transformed Urbs / The days of

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 1

The Man on Crazies Hill

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 10

Another Year of Unwanted Days
I am afloat, my eyes …
Getting Back the Bitter & the Sweet
Rimbaud’s Passport
Liberty Bus
The Man on Crazies Hill

Bio / Bibliography:

Alan Brunton was born in Christchurch in 1946, and educated at Hamilton Boys’ High School, the University of Auckland (where he took a BA) and Victoria University, Wellington, from which he graduated MA in English in 1968. He had begun to submit poetry to campus publications while still a student, and in 1969 founded Freed - the journal of the Auckland University Literary Society - five issues of which appeared between 1969 and 1971. (Brunton co-edited the first two.)

Freed combined poetry, editorials, and ‘manifestos’ with graphics, fonts and layout that reflected contemporary fashions in art and advertising. Brunton’s manifestos advocated the negation of dominant New Zealand poetic and formal traditions (particularly the ‘literary nationalism’ associated with Allen Curnow) while acknowledging both the influence of poets such as Creeley, Olson and Zukofsky, and the relevance of the youth culture and ‘new social movements’ of the late 1960s.

Freed was in many ways a coterie publication, reflecting the attitudes and aspirations of a group of self-consciously ‘young’ Central Auckland poets: ‘[t]he space was common, geographically contained; sociologically coherent. You could cover the whole scene walking.’ Among its targets were a particular set of poetic ‘elders’, several of whom taught in the University of Auckland English Department.

In the early 1970s, Brunton left New Zealand, visiting Sydney, India, and then Europe, where his first collection, the pamphlet Messengers in Blackface, was published in 1973. Returning to New Zealand the following year, he and partner Sally Rodwell established the avant-garde theatre troupe ‘Red Mole’, for which Brunton would eventually write over forty playscripts. (In the late 1970s, Brunton also co-edited the literary magazine Spleen.) Red Mole performed extensively in New Zealand between 1974 and 1978, and from 1979-87 were based variously in New York City, London, Amsterdam and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Returning to New Zealand in 1988, Brunton based himself in Wellington, where he founded Bumper Books, and worked as an editor, drama teacher and arts community worker, while regularly contributing poetry and criticism to literary magazines. In 1998, he was writer-in-residence at the University of Canterbury. Brunton died in June 2002, while touring in Amsterdam with Red Mole.

Biblio:

Messengers in Blackface, London: Amphedesma Press, 1973
Black White Anthology, Christchurch: Hawk Press, 1976
Oh, Ravachol, New York: Red Mole, 1978
And She Said, New York: Red Mole, 1984
New Order, New York: Red Mole, 1986
Day for a Daughter (with Sally Rodwell), Wellington: Untold Books, 1989
Slow Passes, 1978-88, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1991
Ephphatha, (with Richard Killeen), Auckland: Workshop Press, 1994
Romaunt of Glossa: a saga, Wellington: Bumper Books, 1996
Years Ago Today: language & performance, 1969, Wellington: Bumper Books, 1997
Moonshine, Wellington: Bumper Books, 1998
Ecstasy, Wellington: Bumper Books, 2001
Fq, Wellington: Bumper Books, 2002

Edited:

Freed, nos. 1-2
Spleen, nos. 1-8 (with Martin Edmond, Russell Haley and Ian Wedde)
Writing Island Bay, Wellington: Bumper Books, 1997
Big Smoke: New Zealand poems 1960-1975 (with Murray Edmond and Michele Leggott) Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2000
The Brian Bell Reader, Wellington: Bumper Books, 2001

Cochrane, Geoff

Geoff Cochrane (b. 1951)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

Spindrift Sunday
1988
Zigzags
Atlantis

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD07

1. The fate of an …
2. Degrees
3. Spindrift Sunday
4. Missing the Big Match
5. Disposable Camera
6. Effects
7. 1988
8. Zigzags
9. Query
10. Atlantis

Bio /Bibliography:

I was born in 1951 in Island Bay, Wellington, and educated at S Patrick’s College, Cambridge Tce. My first little books were private-press productions; my current publishers are Thumbprint Press and Victoria University Press. I’ve contributed verse and stories to JAAM, Takahe, PRINTOUT, The Listener, Landfall and SPORT. My poems appear in many recent anthologies.

Novels:

Tin Nimbus (VUP, 1995)
Blood (VUP, 1997)

Collected Stories:

Brindle Embers (Thumbprint Press, 2002)

Books of Verse:

Images of Midnight City (Hauraki Press, 1976)
The Sea the Landsman Knows (Voice Press, 1980)
Taming the Smoke (Grape Press, 1983)
Kandinsky’s Mirror (Rat Island Press, 1989)
Aztec Noon (VUP, 1992)
Into India (VUP, 1999)
Acetylene (VUP, 2001)
Nine Poems (Fernbank Studio, 2002)

Charman, Janet

Janet Charman (b. 1954)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

'they say that in paradise'
ready steady
from wake up to yourself
but she wanted one
cuckoo in the nest
injection

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD07

1. the alarm
2. i dig out the couch
3. a barbecue remembered in the bath
4. they say that in paradise
5. ready steady
6. night wear
7. waiting for the kettle
8. going to work
9. saying goodbye to the garden
10. foreword
11. starring in the middle of the night
12. laundry
13. but she wanted one
14. kicked up
15. cuckoo in the nest
16. dairy man
17. injection
18. the V. Dub

Bio /Bibliography:

Janet Charman has published five collections of poetry. Her most recent is: Snowing Down South, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. She is an Auckland teacher.

Monographs:

Snowing Down South, Poems, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.
Rapunzel Rapunzel, Poems, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999.
End of the Dry, Poems, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995.
Red Letter, Poems, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1992.
Two Deaths in One Night, Poems, Auckland: New Women’s Press, 1987.

de Montalk, Stephanie

Stephanie de Montalk (b. 1945)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

Tree Marriage
Northern Spring

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD09

1. Cha-Cha-Cha
2. Tree Marriage
3. Dog on a Mountain
4. In this Country
5. Ode to Small Things She Loved Which Moved Away
6. Common Oak, Europe
7. Northern Spring
8. Concrete
9. Epilation of Eyelash

Bio / Bibliography:

I was born in 1945. I live in Wellington and have four adult children.

I am a registered nurse. I have also worked as a documentary film maker, video censor and warden of two university halls of residence. Until recently I was a member of the New Zealand Film and Literature Board of Review. In 2002 I convened the second semester Poetry Workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University.

I was educated at the Wellington Hospital School of Nursing, and Victoria University where I was joint winner of the Prize for Original Composition in 1997 and from which I graduated in 2000 with an MA (with Distinction) in Creative Writing.

I started writing in 1997. That year I was joint winner of the Novice Writers’ Award in the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Memorial Awards.

Since then I have had short fiction published in Landfall and read on National Radio; and poetry published in numerous magazines and anthologies in New Zealand and abroad, including: Sport, Landfall, NZ Listener, Poetry NZ (featured poet issue XX), JAAM, Turbine, Southerly (Australia), London Magazine, Mutes & Earthquakes (ed. Bill Manhire) (under Miller), Spectacular Babies (ed Bill Manhire and Karen Anderson), Doors and Jewels in the Water (ed. Teny Locke), Big Weather (selected by Greg O’Brien and Louise White), Essentials of English Language 2 (Terry Locke and Mark Wilkins), Eleven Books from the Rita Angus Cottage (printed and published by Brendan O’Brien); and read on National Radio’s Nine to Noon.

In 2000 my first collection of poetry, Animals Indoors, was published by Victoria University Press. The following year it won the Jessie McKay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the NZ Montana Book Awards.

In 2001 my memoir/biography Unquiet World: the life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk was published by Victoria University Press. It will be published in Poland, in Polish by Jagiellonian University Press, Cracow, in 2003. My Stout Research Seminar, ‘Superbug Rumour and Truth’ on the writing of this biography will be published in the Journal of NZ Studies, 2003.

In 2002 my second collection of poetry, The Scientific Evidence of Dr Wang was published by Victoria University Press.

Edmond, Murray

[Photograph: nzepc]

Murray Edmond (b. 1949)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

Voyager

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD11

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

Bio /Bibliography:

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

Biblio:

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

Eggleton, David

[Photograph: F. J. Neuman]

David Eggleton (b. 1952)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

Poem for the Unknown Tourist
Teen Angel

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD12

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

Bio /Bibliography:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

French, Anne

[Printable Reality]

Anne French (b. 1956)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

The New Museology
Trout
Acute
Uncle Ron’s Last Surprise

[Recorded at the Going West Books & Writers Festival (11/9/05)]


Bio /Bibliography:

Anne French was born in Wellington in 1956. She was educated at Ngaio Primary School, Wellington Girls' College and Victoria University, where she received an MA in 1980. She has trained as a teacher and was at one time a Teaching Assistant in the English Department at Victoria University.

French was the editor (1981), Managing Editor (1982), then Publisher (1989) at Oxford University Press New Zealand, Publisher at Te Papa Press, and the Managing Editor of New Zealand Strategic Management (New Zealand’s only refereed business journal). She is now the Strategic Adviser at the Foundation for Research and Technology.

Her collection Boys’ Night Out (1998) was a finalist in the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, which she won in 1987 with All Cretans Are Liars (which also received the PEN Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 1988). Her other publications include The Male as Evader (1988), Cabin Fever (1990), Seven Days on Mykonos (1993), and (most recently) Wild (2005).

French was the inaugural writer in residence at Massey University in 1993.

In her spare time, she pursues interests which include music, fishing, gardening, and sailing. She sings in Cantoris, a Wellington choir dedicated to early music, manages the Wellington Junior Symphony Orchestra, and recently completed an opera libretto called ‘The Long Lunch’, which is being set by Wellington composer Michael Vinten.

POETRY:

All Cretans are Liars. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1987. The Male as Evader. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1988. Cabin Fever. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1990. Seven Days on Mykonos. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1993. Boys' Night Out. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998. Wild. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004.

Farrell, Fiona

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Fiona Farrell (b. 1947)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

Anne Brown’s Song
Instructions for the Consumption of Your Humanitarian Food Package

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD12

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

Bio /Bibliography:

Publications:

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

Stories:

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

Poetry:

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

Awards:

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

Related experience:

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

Green, Paula

Paula Green (b. 1955)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

greek salad
oven-baked salmon
afternoon tea with Virginia Woolf
two minutes westward

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD15

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

Bio /Bibliography:

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

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

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

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

Hulme, Keri

[Te Ara]

Keri Hulme (b. 1947)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

from Fisher in an Autumn Tide

[Recorded at the Going West Books & Writers Festival (21/6/97)]


Bio /Bibliography:

Born in Christchurch, Keri Hulme was educated at North Brighton Primary and Aranui High Schools. She chose to work in the Motueka tobacco fields instead of entering University, and subsequently tried a number of different occupations while writing her first stories and poems.

Hulme’s first collection of poems, The Silence Between (Moeraki Conversations) was published in 1982. Her homage to Moeraki ('my turangawaewae') and Okarito appeared in Homeplaces (1989) and another collection of poems Strands was published in 1992.

In 1985, while she was writer in residence at the University of Canterbury, her novel the bone people won the Booker Prize, an event which catapulted her to world fame.

She now lives, works, paints (and catches whitebait) in the tiny South Westland settlement of Okarito. Her most recent published work is Stonefish (2004).

POETRY:

Coast Voices. Ed. Roger Ewer. Greymouth: Walden Books, 1979.
Silences Between (Moeraki Conversations). Auckland: Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1982.
Lost Possessions. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1985.
Strands. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1992.

PROSE:

the bone people. Wellington: Spiral, 1983; Auckland: Spiral: Hodder & Stoughton, 1985; London: Pan, 1986. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
The Windeater / Te Kaihau. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1986.
Homeplaces: Three Coasts of the South Island. With Robin Morrison. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989.
Hokitika Handmade. Photographs by Julia Brooke-White. Hokitika: Hokitika Craft Gallery Co-operative, 1999.
Stonefish. Wellington: Huia Publishers, 2004.

Hall, Bernadette

Bernadette Hall (b. 1945)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

Party Tricks
The Lay Sister
Famine
Amica

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD15

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

Bio / Bibliography:

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

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

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

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

Books of Poetry:

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

Edited:

Joanna Margaret Paul. Like Love Poems. VUP 2005

Hunt, Sam

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (1979)]

Sam Hunt (b. 1946)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

My Father Scything
Rainbows and a Promise of Snow
Hey, Minstrel
Plateau Songs
Bottle to Battle to Death

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD17

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

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 2

A Purple Balloon
Time to Ride
Notes from a Journey

LP 3, side 2

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

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 5

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

CD 6

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

Bio / Bibliography:

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

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

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

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

Select Bibliography:

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

Kemp, Jan

[Photograph: Dieter Riemenschneider]

Jan Kemp (b. 1949)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

Against the Softness of Woman
Jousting
The Sky’s Enormous Jug
Sailing Boats
‘Love is a babe …’

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD21

1. Hong Kong sounds
2. Only one angel
3. The terrible angel
4. Queen of the castle
5. The sky’s enormous jug
6. Dante’s Heaven
7. Sailing boats
8. Our paradise
9. Naked Ladies near Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula
10. We are all newcomers [1-5]
11. On news of Allen’s death [1-5]
12. Nikau at Punakaiki
13. Jousting
14. Centuries
15. Elephant riding
16. ‘Love is a babe’
17. A pukeko’s trip south

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 2

Song of City Wastrel Wearing Purple Hat
Words were Whispers
A Pattern of Loving

LP 3, side 1

The Old Guard

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 13

The Old Guard
Balloon Masqué
A Covenant with Witches
Against the Softness of Woman
Mystics Mild: Song
Mad Sally
Song of City Wastrel Wearing Purple Hat
A Pattern of Loving
Poem – I am as Glad
Candle
Comb Honey
Hexandra in recess
By Woman Wailing for Her Demon Lover
Words were Whispers
Aashraim at Sea
Dargon of the Waves
Night Poem
The Seal to the Seacaptain
Joel Grey
The Old Guard [take 2]

Bio /Bibliography:

Born in Hamilton 1949, Jan Kemp has an MA (Hons.) in English from the Univ. of Auckland, a Diploma of Teaching and an R.S.A. TEFL Certificate (British Council, Hong Kong). After graduation she lived and taught for many years in the South Pacific, Canada and Asia at various universities including Papua New Guinea, Macau, Hong Kong and Singapore. She studied German and Italian literature in Frankfurt for five years until her return home to live in NZ in late 1999, with her husband Dieter Riemenschneider. She has taught creative writing at the J.W. Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main and at University of Auckland Summer School.

biblio:

Jan Kemp has just completed (April 2004) her sixth collection of poems Dante’s Heaven. Her fifth collection Only One Angel came out in December 2001 (University of Otago Press) following The Sky’s Enormous Jug – love poems old and new (Puriri Press, Auckland, May 2001). Her earlier books are: Against the Softness of Woman (Caveman Press, Dunedin, 1976) O/P; Diamonds and Gravel (Hampson Hunt, Wellington, 1979) O/P and The Other Hemisphere (Three Continents Press, Washington DC & Butterfly Books, N.S.W.1991).

She first published and performed as a FREED poet in the late sixties and was the only woman contributor to The Young NZ Poets anthology (Heinemann, ed. Arthur Baysting) in 1973. She was collector and co-editor in 1974 of Waiata Recordings three LP album NZ Poets Read Their Work with Jonathan Lamb & Alan Smythe. In 1979 she toured NZ with Alistair Campbell, Sam Hunt and Hone Tuwhare on the NZUSA ‘Gang of Four’ Poets Tour and was in the NZ contingent at the South Pacific Festival of Arts in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in 1980. She has taught at the universities of Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong, East Asia at Macau, National University of Singapore and J.W. Goethe Universtaet, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Since returning to live in NZ in 1999, she has taken part in the NZ Book Council’s Words On Wheels 2002 Tour of the Waikato and NZ Poetry Society’s Northern Lights Tour of the northern SI, also in 2002. Her poems have been collected in many NZ and overseas anthologies and she has received writing grants from Creative New Zealand and the Stout Centre. Some of her work has been translated into Chinese, German, Italian and Spanish. She and her husband Dieter Riemenschneider live at Torbay, on Auckland’s North Shore.

She is founder and director of the Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive, with co-director, Jack Ross.

Leggott, Michele

[Photograph: Joanna Forsberg]

Michele Leggott (b. 1956)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

cairo vessel

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD22

1. a woman, a rose, and what has it to do with her or they with one another?
i. Do you see me?
ii. How will you know me?
iv. Where did we get to?
2. ice
3. stone
4. Dear Heart
5. Poetry’s whatever / makes / the adrenalin run

Bio /Bibliography:

Michele Leggott, poet, critic and editor, was born in Stratford, Taranaki, and educated at New Plymouth High School and the University of Canterbury (MA in English 1979 for a thesis on the poetry of Ian Wedde). She spent 1980–85 in Canada completing a PhD on American poet Louis Zukofsky at the University of British Columbia. In 1985 she was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Auckland. Her first book of poems, Like This? (1988) won the PEN First Book of Poetry award. DIA (1994) won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. In her next collection As Far as I Can See (1999), Leggott wrote about her deep sorrow at losing her sight. She was awarded a Blind Achievers Award by the Foundation for the Blind in 1999. Much of her critical work has been concerned with the ‘submerged’ tradition of women poets in New Zealand. In line with this, she has edited Robin Hyde's The Book of Nadath (1999) and Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (2003).

Poetry:

Like This? (Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1988)
Swimmers, Dancers (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1991)
DIA (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1994)
as far as I can see (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999)
Milk and Honey (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005)

Editing & Criticism:

Reading Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers (1989)
Michele Leggott & Mark William, eds. Opening the Book: New Essays on New Zealand Writing (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995)
Robin Hyde, The Victory Hymn, 1935–1995 (Auckland: Holloway Press, 1995)
Robin Hyde, The Book of Nadath. Ed. Michele Leggott. (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999)
Robin Hyde, Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde. Ed. Michele Leggott (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003)

Lindsay, Graham

Graham Lindsay (b. 1952)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

Playground
Cloud silence
Life in the Queen’s English
Chink

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD22

1. A postcard for Mary
2. Exit
3. Playground
4. View from a train window
5. Seeing as how
6. Context of words
7. Cloud silence
8. Subject
9. Life in the Queen's English
10. The thing is
11. Residence in silence
12. Wellspring
13. Lullaby
14. Chink

Bio /Bibliography:

Born in Wellington, 1952. Bachelor of Arts, University of Canterbury, 1976. Diploma of Teaching, Christchurch College of Education, 1989. Has worked in a variety of short term or part time jobs including driving, library work, and teaching. Has two sons. Lives in Christchurch.

Published in: Islands, Spleen, Pilgrims, Climate, Parallax, Landfall, Splash, Untold, Listener, Metro, Takahe, Span (Wollongong), Poetry NZ, Sport, Printout, New Zealand Books, Quote Unquote, A Brief Description of the Whole World, JAAM, The Press, North & South.

Featured in: Origin (Boston, 1981).

Anthologised in: The New Poets (1987), The Penguin Book of New Zealand Poetry (1989), 100 New Zealand Poems (1993), From the Mainland (1995), An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (1996).

Poem included in Barbara Ewing’s Kiwi Theatre Season by Southwark Playhouse.

Interviewed by Jack Ross for Complete with Instructions (2001).

Readings at: Wellington Writers’ Conference (1979), Seeing Voices (2002).

Edited:

Morepork, #13 (Ridge-Pole, 197980).

Books:

Thousand-Eyed Eel, Taylors Mistake: Hawk Press, 1976
Public, Dunedin: Ridge-Pole, 1980
Big Boy, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1986
Return to Earth, Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1991
The Subject, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1994
Legend of the Cool Secret, Christchurch: Sudden Valley Press, 1999
Lazy Wind Poems, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003

Manhire, Bill

Bill Manhire (b. 1946)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

The Old Man’s Example
Domestic
On Originality
Visiting Mr Shackleton
Miscarriage
Valedictory
A Song about the Moon

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD23

1. Domestic
2. On Originality
3. Visiting Mr Shackleton
4. Miscarriage
5. Valedictory
6. A Song about the Moon

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 1

The Old Man’s Example
The Spell
The Prayer

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 4

The Old Man’s Example
The Oreti River
Poem
The Poetry Magazine
Riddle – The Heart
Riddle – Bad Luck
Long Poem
The Proof
The Elaboration
Your Absence
The Spell
The Prayer
The Voyage
A Death in the Family
Last Sonnet
The Importance of Personal Relationships
The Proposition
On Originality

Bio / Bibliography:

Bill Manhire is a Wellington poet, short story writer, editor, anthologist and academic. Born in Invercargill in 1946, he grew up in small towns in Southland and Otago before moving with his family to Dunedin. He attended Otago Boys’ High School, and, later, the University of Otago, where he took a BA in English. After graduating, Manhire enrolled in the department of Scandinavian Studies at University College, London, where he studied Old Icelandic. In 1973, after receiving his M.Phil., he returned to New Zealand to take up a lectureship in the English Department at Victoria University, Wellington.

While a student at Otago, Manhire had had his first poems published in the Otago University Literary Review and formed links with the Dunedin art and literary scenes. A friendship with the painter Ralph Hotere led to their collaborating on Malady (1970), Manhire’s first book, and the formation of the Amphedesma Press, which published a number of small volumes by New Zealand poets in the early 1970s. (Manhire ran the press - in partnership with Kevin Cunningham - while living in London as a student.) He has since produced thirteen further volumes of poetry, a ‘choose your own adventure’ novel, The Brain of Katherine Mansfield (1988), and a collection of essays and interviews, Doubtful Sounds (2000). He has also published numerous reviews and articles and edited a number of anthologies. In 1983, he took over the ‘original composition’ course at Victoria; it has since expanded into a high-profile graduate programme offering an MA in creative writing. Since 2001, this has been run under the auspices of the International Institute of Modern Letters, of which Manhire is co-director. He has won the New Zealand Book Award four times, and in 1997 was named New Zealand’s inaugural Poet Laureate. In 2004, he was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship to Menton.

Poetry:

Malady, Dunedin: Amphedesma Press, 1970
The Elaboration: Poems, (with drawings by Ralph Hotere), Wellington: Square & Circle, 1972
How to Take Your Clothes Off at the Picnic, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press, 1977
Dawn, Water, Wellington: Hawk Press, 1979
Good Looks, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1982
Zoetropes: Poems, 1972-82, Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1984
Milky Way Bar, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1987
My Sunshine, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1996
Sheet Music: Poems 1967-1982, Wellington : Victoria University Press, 1996
What to Call Your Child, Auckland: Godwit, 1999
Collected Poems, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001

Prose:

The Brain of Katherine Mansfield, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1988
South Pacific, Manchester: Carcanet, 1994
Songs of My Life, Auckland: Godwit, 1996
Doubtful Sounds: essays and interviews, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2000

McQueen, Cilla

Cilla McQueen (b. 1949)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

Living Here
Fuse

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD24

1. Living Here
2. Knots
3. Kitchen Table
4. Fuse

Bio /Bibliography:

Selected cv:

b. 1949, Birmingham, England.
New Zealand citizen.
M.A Hons, (1st class) Otago University 1971
Poet, teacher and artist.

Publications:

Homing In 1982
Anti Gravity 1984
Wild Sweets 1986
Benzina 1988
Berlin Diary 1990
Crikey 1993 (all John McIndoe Ltd)
Markings 2000 (University of Otago Press)
Axis 2001 (University of Otago Press)
Soundings 2002 (University of Otago Press)

Honours and Awards (selected):

New Zealand Book Award for Poetry (for Homing In) 1983
PEN/Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry 1983
Air New Zealand/PEN Travel Award, to Australia 1984
Robert Burns Fellowship, Otago University, 1985
Fulbright Visiting Writer's Fellowship, Stanford University, 1985
Robert Burns Fellowship, Otago University, 1986
Inaugural Australia-New Zealand Writers' Exchange Fellowship 1987
Goethe Institut Scholarship. Berlin, 1988
New Zealand Book Award for Poetry (for Benzina) 1989
New Zealand Book Award for Poetry (for Berlin Diary) 1991
PEN National Council, 1989, 1990
Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Scholarship in Letters 1992
Council Member, Creative New Zealand, 1996-1998
Southland Art Foundation Artist in Residence, 1999

Norcliffe, James

James Norcliffe (b. 1946)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

at Franz Josef
planchette
the visit of the dalai lama

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD26

1. Rat Tickling
2. The Sphagnum Moss Industry
3. Wooden Diseases
4. The Visit of Dalai Lama
5. School in the Lodge
6. Hang Gliders off Whitewash
7. Easy Thai Cooking
8. 3 Canaries
9. At Franz Josef
10. Considering the Lily
11. Planchette
12. Villon in Millerton [1-6]
13. Conspiracy Theory [1-4]
14. Yippee

Bio / Bibliography:

My short fiction and poetry has been accepted for publication in many of New Zealand's literary journals: Landfall, Islands, Sport, Untold, Takahe, NZ Listener, New Zealand Books, Poetry NZ, JAAM, North and South, the OUSA Literary Review & a dozen others;
In Poetry Australia, Jacket, LiNQ, Mattoid, Overland, Southerly, Verandah, Imago, Island Magazine & others in Australia;
In The Independent, Orbis, The Rialto, Stand, Staple, The Tabla Book of New Verse, & a dozen others in the UK;
In Ariel, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Harpweaver, The Malahat Review, Prism International, Queen's Quarterly, & several others in Canada;
In The Baltimore Review, Flyway, Gargoyle, New Delta Review, Confrontations Magazine, Porcupine, Verse, & several others in the USA;
In Paris/Atlantic (France); in Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria); & in magazines in Ireland, Japan, Greece & elsewhere.
Several stories have been broadcast by Radio New Zealand.

My shorter fiction for young people has been anthologised in: I Have Seen the Future (Longman Paul 1986); Zig Zag (Penguin 1993); Sun Days and Moon Nights (Mallinson Rendell 1994); The Body in the Driveway (Ashtons 1995); Falling in Love (Penguin 1995).

My poetry & short fiction have been anthologised in Ginger Stardust 1993; Black Before the Sun 1994; The Oxford Book of New Zealand Poetry in English (OUP 1997); New Zealand Love Poems: An Oxford Anthology (OUP 2000); Jewels in the Water (Leaders Press 2000); Essential New Zealand Poems (Random 2001); With Our Eyes Open (Chrysalis Seed Trust 2002); The Song of the Belly Button Man (Artsenta Trust 2002) Dunedin; Big Sky (Shoal Bay Press 2002) New Zealand Short Short Stories 4 (Tandem 2000) And Me For All Of Those (Clerestory Press, 2000); Spinning a Line (Random 2001)

I have published to date four volumes of poetry: The Sportsman & Other Poems (Hard Echo Press 1986) shortlisted for the PEN Jessie Mackay Award; Letters to Dr Dee (Hazard Press 1993) shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards 1994; A Kind of Kingdom (Victoria University Press 1998); Rat Tickling (Sudden Valley Press, 2003)

I have published a book of short stories for adults: The Chinese Interpreter (Hazard Press 1994).

A limited edition extended essay in a bilingual edition The Past & Other Countries was published by the NZ Chinese Writers' Association (2000)

I have published four novels for young readers: Under the Rotunda (Hazard Press, 1992) Penguin Bay (Hazard Press, 1993) The Emerald Encyclopedia (Hazard Press, 1994) and The Carousel Experiment (Hazard Press, 1995)

I have edited And Me For All Of Those (with Glyn Strange, Colin Amodeo, and Bill Nagelkerke) (Clerestory Press, 2000) Big Sky (with Bernadette Hall) (Shoal Bay Press 2002) Redraft 2 (with Alan Bunn) (Clerestory Press 2002).