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 Many of the details recorded here are therefore significantly out of date.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

Adcock, Fleur

[Photograph: Neil Astley]

Fleur Adcock (b. 1934)

Contents:

Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):

A Game
The Pilgrim Fathers
Camping
Smokers for Celibacy

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD01

1. The Pilgrim Fathers
2. Camping
3. The Wars
4. For Meg
5. Smokers For Celibacy
6. Libya
7. Cattle in Mist
8. Willow Creek
9. A Visiting Angel
10. The Video

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 1

Incident
A Game
Stewart Island

LP 3, side 2

The Pangolin
Country Station

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 16

For a Five Year Old
Incident
I Ride on My High Bicycle
Think before You Shoot
The Pangolin
A Game
Being Blind
Stewart Island
On a Son Returned to New Zealand
Country Station
Richey
An Illustration to Dante
External Service

Bio /Bibliography:

Fleur Adcock was born in Papakura in 1934. At the age of five, she moved with her family to England, where she ‘went to eleven schools in seven and a half years’, before returning to New Zealand in 1947. She attended Wellington Girls’ College, and, later, Victoria University, from which she graduated M.A. (first class honours) in Classics.

After moving to Dunedin in 1958, she lectured briefly in the Classics Department at Otago University, after which she worked as a librarian. She had a number of poems published in Landfall in the late 1950s and early 1960s; her first volume appeared in Wellington in 1964. By this time, however, she had emigrated to the U.K., where she worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office for sixteen years, before resigning in order to write full-time.

In Britain, she has said that she ‘had to start again’ as a poet, submitting to British poetry magazines and attending readings and workshops before becoming established in the 1970s. During this time, however, and through the 1980s, ‘90s, and beyond, she maintained links with the New Zealand literary scene, seeing poetry published in, among other places, Landfall, Islands, The New Zealand Listener, and JAAM, and reviewing the work of New Zealand writers in British journals and newspapers.

Since becoming a full-time writer in 1979, she has, in addition to publishing ten volumes of poetry, reviewed widely, held a number of writing fellowships at British Universities, written and broadcasted for the BBC, edited poetry anthologies, and translated Romanian and Medieval Latin poetry. She was awarded an O.B.E. for services to literature in 1996. She has two sons, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Selected Bibliography

Poetry Volumes:

The Eye of the Hurricane (Wellington: Reed, 1964)
Tigers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967)
High Tide in the Garden (London: OUP, 1971)
The Scenic Route (London: OUP, 1974)
Below Loughrigg (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1979)
The Inner Harbour (Oxford: OUP, 1979)
Hotspur: a Ballad for Music (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1986)
The Incident Book (Oxford: OUP, 1986)
Time Zones (Oxford, OUP, 1991)
Looking Back (Oxford: OUP, 1997)

Collections:

Selected Poems (Oxford: OUP, 1983)
Poems 1960-2000 (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 2000)

Translations:

The Virgin and the Nightingale: Medieval Latin Poems (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1983)
Orient Express, by Grete Tartler (Oxford: OUP, 1989)
Letters from Darkness, by Daniela Crasnaru (Oxford: OUP, 1991)

Edited Poetry Anthologies:

The Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry (Auckland, OUP, 1982)
The Faber Book of 20th Century Women’s Poetry (London: Faber and Faber, 1987)

Arvidson, K. O.

K. O. (Ken) Arvidson (b. 1938)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD01

1. After Rilke
2. Old Blush
3. Readings
4. Some Legends of the Civil War
5. In Suva’s Morning Light
6. End

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 2

The Tall Wind
This Giving

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 15

This Giving
Gnomic Poem
The Tall Wind
At Pukerua Bay
Fish & Chips on the Merry-Go-Round
Riding the Pendulum
Four Last Songs – Part I
Four Last Songs – Part III

Bio /Bibliography:

Kenneth Owen Arvidson, born in 1938, named after grandfather Knut Otto Arvidsson, is married to Mary Southby. He has three children, two of them by an earlier marriage, and five grandchildren. From 1956 he studied part-time at the University of Auckland, firstly in science, graduating BA in 1963 in English, German and Philosophy, and MA in 1966, in English. Early poems appeared firstly in Kiwi, and from 1963 in Landfall.

1961-63 taught senior English at St Peter’s College, Epsom.
1964-66 Junior Lecturer in English, University of Auckland.
1967-70 Lecturer in English, Flinders University, Adelaide.
1971-74 Lecturer in English, University of the South Pacific, Suva.
1974 Lecturer in English, University of Waikato.
1984 Associate Professor of English.
English Department chairman 1984-1989 and 1993-95.
2002- Research Associate, University of Waikato.
Main teaching and research areas: Victorian literature, Modernism, History and Theory of Criticism, New Zealand literature, Australian literature, Pacific literature and culture, and Irish literature.

Some career highlights:

1963 Macmillan Brown Prize for Literature (poetry).
1973 Examiner in English for the South Pacific region, NZ UE Board.
1977 Took part in the East-West Center (Honolulu) International Literary Symposium at invitation of US State Department.
1980- Professional Associate, East-West Center, Honolulu.
1981 Poetry judge, National Book Awards.
1982 Fiction judge, National Book Awards.
1982- Editorial Board, Journal of New Zealand Literature.
1986-87 Associate Member, Darwin College, University of Cambridge.
1987 Presented “An evening of NZ poetry”, NZ Embassy, Washington DC.
1993 Judge, BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award.
1994-96 Chairman, South Pacific Assn of Commonwealth Lang and Lit Studies.
2001- Editor, Journal of New Zealand Literature.

Publications include Riding the Pendulum: Poems 1961-69, OUP (Auck) 1973, and editions of John Gorst’s The Maori King, Reed 2001, and The Selected Poems of Lauris Edmond, BWB 2001. Poetry has appeared in Landfall, Islands, Mate, Comment, Meanjin, NZ Poetry Yearbook, Poetry Australia, Poetry NZ, and Sport. Poetry has been anthologised in Young Commonwealth Poets, Anthology of 20th Century NZ Poetry, NZ Writing Since 1945, Penguin Book of NZ Verse, The Oxford Book of NZ Poetry in English, NZ Love Poems (Bertram, Edmond), and Essential NZ Poems.

A further volume of poetry is in preparation.

Baysting, Arthur

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (c.1970)]

Arthur Baysting

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 1

A Tale for Gene
Hawks
Black Swans

LP 3, side 2

On Taming a Dragon
The Oddsock Plan
The Day the Toads Came to Town
The Lion

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 12

No Trouble
For Damon, a Three-Year-Old
I knew This Girl
Black Swans
Love Poem
The Mayor Wants Everyone to Join a Club
Tahunanui Beach
Hawks
Crisis
Cliché
A Tale for Gene
The Day the Toads Came to Town
A Poem about Not Being Able to Write a Poem
The Oddsock Plan
On Taming a Dragon
The Crazyman
The Lion

Baxter, James K.

[Photograph: NZ Book Council]

James K. Baxter (1926-1972)

Contents:

Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):

Poem in the Matukituki Valley
Prospector
The Fallen House

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 2

Poem in the Matukituki Valley

LP 3, side 1

Prospector

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 24

Poem in the Matukituki Valley
Prospector
The Fallen House

Bio /Bibliography:

James K. Baxter was born in Dunedin, the son of pioneering pacifist Archibald Baxter, author of We Will Not Cease (1939), and Millicent Brown, daughter of Professor John Macmillan Brown. These two sides of his personality, the idealist and the intellectual, warred in him for the rest of his life.

His first book of poems, Beyond the Palisade, was published in 1944, and he was immediately hailed as a wunderkind. From then until his death in 1972 there was never a moment when he was not at the forefront of New Zealand literary life – in Christchurch in the late 40s, in Wellington in the 50s, and (most famously) as a commune organizer at Jerusalem on the Whanganui River in the late 60s and early 70s. Out of this came his most famous (and arguably his finest) book, the Jerusalem Sonnets (1970).

As a critic, dramatist, social commentator, Baxter published widely, but his monument remains that amazing profusion of poems, which continue to address issues of race, class, and spirituality of vital concern to all New Zealanders. His Collected Poems appeared in 1980, followed by Collected Plays in 1982. His critical prose has been assembled in James K. Baxter as Critic (1978).

Selected Bibliography

Poetry:
Beyond the Palisade. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1944.
Blow, Wind of Fruitfulness. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1948.
The Fallen House. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1953.
In Fires of No Return. London: Oxford University Press, 1958.
Howrah Bridge and Other Poems. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.
Pig Island Letters. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
The Rock Woman: Selected Poems. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Jerusalem Sonnets. Dunedin: Bibliography Room, University of Otago, 1970.
Jerusalem Daybook. Wellington: Price Milburn, 1971.
Autumn Testament. Wellington: Price Milburn, 1972.
Runes. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.
The Labyrinth: Some Uncollected Poems 1944-1972. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.
The Tree House and Other Poems for Children. Wellington: Price Milburn, 1974.
The Bone Chanter: Unpublished Poems 1945-1972. Edited by J. E. Weir. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1976.
The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady: Various Uncollected and Unpublished Poems. Edited by J. E. Weir. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Collected Poems. Edited by J. E. Weir. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Selected Poems. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1982.
The Essential Baxter. Edited by J. E. Weir. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Cold Spring: Baxter's Unpublished Early Collection. Edited by Paul Millar. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Plays:
Collected Plays. Auckland; New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Prose:
James K. Baxter as Critic: a Selection from his Literary Criticism. Edited by Frank McKay. Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books, 1978.
Spark to a waiting fuse: James K. Baxter's correspondence with Noel Ginn, 1942-46. Edited by Paul Millar. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001.

Biographical:
Oliver, W. James K. Baxter: a portrait. Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1983.
McKay, Frank. The Life of James K. Baxter. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Brasch, Charles

[Photograph: NZ Book Council]

Charles Brasch (1909-1973)

Contents:

Classic New Zealand Poets In Performance (2006):

from In Your Presence:
'I read your signature'
'Morepork, Shrewd Sentry Owl'
Biography / Selected Bibliography

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 1

Ben Rudd
from In Your Presence

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 3

Ben Rudd
from In Your Presence:
I read your signature
Morepork, Shrewd Sentry Owl

Bio /Bibliography:

Born into a wealthy mercantile family in Dunedin, Charles Brasch was educated at Waitaki Boys High, then New Zealand’s best-known public school, and subsequently went on to study (and pursue his own writing) at Oxford. On his return to New Zealand in 1931, he continued to publish poetry, and was an important contributor to Phoenix, Auckland University’s new literary quarterly. After a confrontation with his father over his refusal to work in the family business, he returned to live in Europe, where he stayed till the end of the Second World War (with brief visits home)

His first book of poems, The Land and the People, was published in 1939 by the Caxton Press. The alliances he had formed with Denis Glover, Allen Curnow and other members of the New Zealand literary avant-garde bore fruit when he founded Landfall, still New Zealand’s foremost literary periodical, on his return to New Zealand in 1945.

It is as Landfall’s founding editor that he made his greatest mark. He ran the magazine for twenty years, 1947-1966, bringing a new seriousness and professionalism to New Zealand letters.

He continued to work as a poet, however, publishing new collections every few years. A memoir, Indirections, was published posthumously in 1980, and his Collected Poems in 1984.


Selected Bibliography

Poetry:
The Land and the People, and Other Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1939.
Disputed Ground: Poems 1939-45. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1948.
The Estate, and Other Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1957.
Ambulando: Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1964.
Not Far Off: Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1969.
Home Ground: Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1974.
Collected Poems. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Translations:
Amrita Pritam. Black Rose. New Delhi: Nagmani, 1967.
Poems by Esenin. Translated by Charles Brasch and Peter Soskice. Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press, 1970.

Plays:
The Quest: Words for a Mime Play. London: The Compass Players, 1946.

Prose:
Present Company: Reflections on the Arts. Auckland: Blackwood and Janet Paul for the Auckland Gallery Associates, 1966.
(with C.R. Nicholson) Hallensteins: the First Century, 1873-1973. Dunedin: Hallenstein Bros., 1973.
Such Separate Creatures: Stories. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1973.
Indirections: a Memoir, 1909-1947. Wellington; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
The Universal Dance: a Selection from the Critical Prose Writings of Charles Brasch. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1981.

Edited:
Landfall Country. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1962.

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

Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (b. 1925)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):



Waiata Archive (1974):



Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

Bio / Bibliography:


Contents:

Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):

The Gunfighter
Home from Hospital
Lest We Forget
Maori Battalion Veteran

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD06

1. Lest We Forget
2. Stretcher Bearer
3. Gallipoli Peninsula
4. Breath of Life
5. Words and Roses
6. Warning to Children
7. Sgt. Jack Tainui – Maori Friend
8. Maori Battalion Veteran

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 1

Against Te Rauparaha

LP 3, side 2

At a Fishing Settlement
The Gunfighter
The Cromwell Gorge

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 5

Hut near Desolated Pines
At a Fishing Settlement
The Return
The Cromwell Gorge
Against Te Rauparaha
Why Don’t You Talk to Me
The Gunfighter
Home from Hospital
Small Town Blues
Love Song for Meg

12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):

Gallipoli Peninsula

Bio /Bibliography:

Poet and novelist; born Rarotonga, 25 June 1925; son of John Archibald Campbell and Teu (née Bosini) of Tongareva; married (1) Fleur Adcock; 2 sons (diss. 1957) (2) Meg Andersen, 1958, 1 son, 2 daughters. Lives at Pukerua Bay in a house looking out towards Kapiti Island, with his wife, Meg, who is also a poet, and five springer spaniel dogs (including the ghost of KooShe).

Education: Otago Boys' High School; Victoria University College, B.A., 1953; Wellington Teachers' College, 1952-53; Teacher Newtown School, 1954; Editor, School Journal, 1955-1972; Senior Editor, N.Z. Council for Educational Research, 1972-87.

Bibliodata:

Guest writer, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, 1978; N.Z. Book Award for Poetry, 1982; Arts Council Scholarship in Letters, 1990; Writer's Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington, 1992; Pacific Islands Artist Award, l998; Hon. D.Litt.; Victoria University, 1999.

Published Verse includes Mine Eyes Dazzle, 1950; Sanctuary of Spirits, 1963; Kapiti : Selected Poems, 1972; The Dark Lord of Savaiki, 1980; Soul Traps, 1985; Stone Rain: The Polynesian Strain, 1992; Gallipoli and Other Poems, 1999; Maori Battalion, 1999; Poets in Our Youth, 1992. Published Fiction includes The Frigate Bird, 1989; Sidewinder, 1991; Fantasy with Witches, 1998. Memoir; Island to Island, 1984. Published Drama includes Sanctuary of Spirits (radio) 1963; The Proprietor (radio) 1964; When the Bough Breaks (stage), 1970. T.V. documentaries : Island of Spirits, 1973; Like You I'm Trapped, 1975; Mine Eyes Dazzle, 2003.

Curnow, Allen

[Photograph: Marti Friedlander]

Allen Curnow (1911-2001)

Contents:

Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):

House and Land
The Unhistoric Story
The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
A Dead Lamb
Any Time Now

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD08

1. Gare SNCF Garavan
2. The Kindest Thing
3. Narita
4. Do Not Touch the Exhibits
5. Things to Do with Moonlight [1-3]
6. Looking West, Late Afternoon, Low Water
7. Early Days Yet [1-3]
8. The Scrap-book [1-3]
9. The Bells of Saint Babel’s [1-5]
10. Ten Steps to the Sea [1-10]
11. Fantasia and Fugue for Pan-pipe [1-4]
12. House and Land
13. The Unhistoric Story
14. The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
15. A Leaf
16. The Loop in Lone Kauri Road

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 2

Lone Kauri Road
Two Pedestrians with One Thought
Magnificat

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 1

Lone Kauri Road
Friendship Heights
An Upper Room
A Dead Lamb
A Framed Photograph
Two Pedestrians with One Thought
Magnificat
A Four Letter Word
A Hot Time
Anytime Now

Bio /Bibliography:

Allen Curnow was born in Timaru, New Zealand, in 1911. He was educated at the Universities of Canterbury and Auckland. After a period of study for the Anglican ministry, he worked for the Press newspaper and the News Chronicle (London) before teaching at the University of Auckland (1951-76) as lecturer and associate professor of English. His first book of poems appeared in 1933; it was followed by many others. He edited anthologies, including The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (1961), continued to write poems, plays and criticism and travelled widely. He read and recorded his poems for major universities and the Library of Congress, for the BBC and Australian radio, as well as for the Poetry Society (London), the Cambridge Poetry Festival, the Toronto International Festival of Authors, the Voice Box and the International Poetry Festival at Southbank Centre. He held the Litt.D. degrees from the University of Auckland and (honoris causa) Auckland and Canterbury. He received the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry seven times. He was made a CBE in 1986, was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1989, the ONZ in 1990 and the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry in 1992. He died in 2001.

Select Biblio:

Valley of Decision, Auckland: Auckland University College Students’ Assoc., 1933
Enemies: Poems, 1934-36, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1937
Not in Narrow Seas: Poems with Prose, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1939
Island and Time, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1941
Recent Poems, (with A.R.D. Fairbum, Denis Glover, and R.A.K.Mason), Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1941
Sailing or Drowning, Wellington: Progressive Publishing Society, 1944
Poems, Jack without Magic, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1946
At Dead Low Water and Sonnets, Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1949
Poems, 1949-57, Wellington: Mermaid Press, 1957
A Small Room with Large Windows: Selected Poems, London: Oxford University Press, 1962
Trees, Effigies, Moving Objects: A Sequence of Poems, Wellington: Catspaw Press, 1972
An Abominable Temper and Other Poems, Wellington: Catspaw Press, 1973
Collected Poems, 1933-73, Wellington: Reed, 1974
An Incorrigible Music: A Sequence of Poems, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1979
Selected Poems, Auckland: Penguin, 1982
You Will Know When You Get There: Poems 1979-81, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1982
The Loop in Lone Kauri Road: Poems 1983-85, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1986
Continuum: New and Later Poems, 1972-88, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1988
Selected Poems, 1940-89, London: Penguin Books, 1990
Penguin Modern Poets (with Donald Davie and Samuel Menashe), London: Penguin Books, 1996
Early Days Yet: New and Collected Poems 1941-1997, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1997
The Bells of Saint Babel’s, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2001

Doyle, Mike

Mike (Charles) Doyle (b. 1928)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work(1974):

LP 1, side 1

At Karekare Beach
One’s Once One
The Journey of Meng Chiao

LP 3, side 1

Growing a Beard
The Tree

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 18

The Journey of Meng Chiao
At Karekare Beach
Hello, is that you, this is me
Four Notes from a Dream Book
Victor Coleman for Gift of Light …
Shaving
Growing a Beard
One’s Once One
The Tree
Stone by Stone
Discovery

Fairburn, A. R. D.

Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn (1904-1957)

Contents:

Classic New Zealand Poets In Performance (2006):

Full Fathom Five
A Farewell
The Cave
Cupid
Walking on my Feet
Biography / Selected Bibliography

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 2

Full Fathom Five
A Farewell
The Cave

LP 3, side 2

Walking on My Feet
Away from it All

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 1

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

CD 23

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

Bio /Bibliography:

Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn was born in Auckland in 1904, a descendant of the missionary W. T. Fairburn, who came to New Zealand with Marsden in 1819. He attended Auckland Grammar School, where he met R. A. K. Mason, but did not matriculate due to the compulsory mathematics requirement. After leaving school he worked as an insurance clerk, resigning in 1926 to pursue his writing. He left New Zealand in 1930 to travel to England. His first volume of poetry, He Shall Not Rise, was also published in that year.

While in England, he met and married a fellow New Zealander, art student Jocelyn Mays. At the end of 1932 they left depression-ridden England to return to New Zealand, where he joined the thousands of unemployed working on the roads. His long poem Dominion, published in 1938, is a portrayal of New Zealand at that time.

He was an active member of the literary circle centred around Christchurch printer Denis Glover’s Caxton Press, and wrote for a number of radical journals, including Phoenix, Sirocco, and Tomorrow. In 1934 he took on relief work as assistant secretary of the Auckland branch of the NZ Farmers’ Union and sub-editor of Farming First.

In 1942 he was called up for military service, then, in 1943, the year Caxton published his Poems 1929-1941, was manpowered into broadcasting.

In 1948 he became a tutor in the English Department of Auckland University, and in 1950 a lecturer at Elam, the University’s school of Fine Arts.

He died of cancer in 1957. His Collected Poems, edited by Denis Glover, appeared in 1966, and a volume of Selected Poems, edited and introduced by Mac Jackson, in 1995. As well as a poet and polemicist, Fairburn was also a broadcaster and fabric designer, an early environmentalist, and loved the outdoors – tramping, swimming, boating and golf.

He remains one of New Zealand’s most popular writers.


Selected Bibliography

Poetry:
He Shall Not Rise: Poems. London: Columbia Press, 1930.
The County. London: Lahr, 1931.
Dominion. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1938
[with Allen Curnow, R.A.K. Mason and Denis Glover]. Recent Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1941
Poems 1929-41. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1943
The Rakehelly Man and Other Verses. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1946.
Strange Rendezvous: Poems 1929-41, with additions. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1952
Three Poems: Dominion, The Voyage, To a Friend in the Wilderness. Wellington: New Zealand University Press, 1952.
The Disadvantages of Being Dead and Other Sharp Verses. Wellington: Mermaid Press, 1958.
Poetry Harbinger, introducing A.R.D. Fairburn (6 foot 3) and Denis Glover (11 stone 7). Auckland: Pilgrim Press, 1958.
Collected Poems. Christchurch: Pegasus Press, 1966.
Selected Poems. Edited by Mac Jackson. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995

Prose:
A Discussion on Communism between A.R.D. Fairburn and S.W. Scott. Auckland: Auckland District Party Committee, Communist Party Committee, Communist Party of New Zealand, 1936.
Who Said Red Ruin. Auckland: Griffin Press, 1938.
The Sky is a Limpet (a Pollytickle Parotty). Devonport: Phillips Press, 1939
We New Zealanders. Wellington. Progressive Publishing Society, 1944
How to Ride a Bicycle in 17 Lovely Colours. Auckland: A.R.D. Fairburn & the Pelorus Press, 1947
The Woman Problem and Other Prose. Edited by Denis Glover and G. Fairburn. Auckland: Blackwood & Janet Paul, 1967.
The Letters of A. R. D. Fairburn. Edited by Lauris Edmond. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Biographical:
McNeish, James. Walking on my feet: A. R. D. Fairburn: a kind of biography. Auckland: Collins, 1983.
Trussell, Denys. Fairburn. Auckland University Press: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Frame, Janet

Janet Frame (1924-2004)

Contents:

Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):

The Cat of Habit
The Icicles
Lines Written at the Frank Sargeson Centre
O Lung Flowering Like a Tree

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD13

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

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 2

O Lung Flowering Like a Tree
The Flowering Cherry

LP 3, side 2

The Cabbages

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 27 [missing]

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

12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):

Friends far away die ...

Bio /Bibliography:

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

Poetry:

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

Prose (novels, short stories and autobiography):

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

Glover, Denis

[Photograph: Rupert Glover]

Denis Glover (1912-1980)

Contents:

Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):

The Magpies
Threnody

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 1, side 2

Sunday Morning
Death of a Dictator
The Scientist

LP 3, side 1

The Magpies
For a Child
The Weather Cast
Threnody

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 1

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

CD 6
Sunday Morning
The Scientist
Off Banks Peninsula

CD 7

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

Bio /Bibliography:

Denis Glover was born in Dunedin, though most of his childhood (after his parents’ divorce) was spent in New Plymouth. Educated at Auckland Grammar (where he met the printer Bob Lowry), he transferred in his sixth form year to Christ’s College, Christchurch, completing his education with a BA in English and Greek from Canterbury University College (1930-34).

A keen boxer and climber, his passion for writing led him to printing and journalism. Inspired by the success of Lowry’s student magazine Phoenix, he began the magazine Oriflamme in 1933. It was suppressed by the authorities as a result of an article entitled “Sex and the Undergraduate.”

In 1935 he founded the Caxton Press, which published volumes of verse by Fairburn, Mason, Curnow, and Glover himself – including the notorious Arraignment of Paris (1937), a lampoon on journalist C. A. Marris’s annual volumes of New Zealand Best Poems.

Volunteering for the Navy during the war, he served with distinction on the Arctic convoys and the D-Day landings. On his return to New Zealand in 1944 he threw himself into publishing with renewed energy. The war poems included in The Wind and the Sand: Poems 1934-44, are among his finest.

His later career was prolific and turbulent. Alcoholism poisoned many of his professional associations, but he continued to write, and left behind a substantial legacy of work both in prose and poetry when he died in 1980.


Selected Bibliography

Poetry:
Another Argo: Three Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Club Press, 1935.
Thistledown. Christchurch: Caxton Club Press, 1935.
The Arraignment of Paris. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1937.
Thirteen Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1939.
Till the Star Speak. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1939.
Cold Tongue. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1940.
The Wind and the Sand: Poems 1934-44. Christchurch: Caxton, 1945.
Summer Flowers: Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1946.
Sings Harry and Other Poems. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1951.
Arawata Bill: a Sequence of Poems. Christchurch: Pegasus, 1953.
Since Then. Wellington: Mermaid Press, 1957.
Enter Without Knocking. Christchurch: Pegasus, 1964.
Sharp Edge Up: Verses and Satires. Auckland: Blackwood & Janet Paul, 1968.
To a Particular Woman. Christchurch: Nag's Head Press, 1970.
Myself When Young. Christchurch: Nag's Head Press, 1970.
Dancing to My Tune. Wellington: Cats Paw Press, 1974.
Wellington Harbour. Wellington: Cats Paw Press, 1974.
Clutha: River Poems. Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1977.
Come High Water. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1977.
For Whom the Cock Crows. Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1978.
Or Hawk or Basilisk: Verses. Wellington: Catspaw Press, 1978.
To Friends in Russia. Wellington: Nag's Head Press, 1979.
Towards Banks Peninsula: a Sequence. Christchurch: Pegasus, 1979.
Selected Poems. With an introduction by Allen Curnow. Auckland: Penguin, 1981.
Selected Poems. Edited by Bill Manhire. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995.

Prose:
Three Short Stories. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1936.
D Day. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1944.
Diary to a Woman. Wellington: Cats-Paw Press, 1971.
Men of God. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1978.
Hot Water Sailor 1912-1962; & Landlubber Ho! 1963-1980. Auckland: Collins, 1981.

Biographical:
Ogilvie, Gordon. Denis Glover: his life. Auckland: Godwit, 1999.

Haley, Russell

Russell Haley (1934-2016)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 1

Gigolo in Mourning

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 25

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

Hooper, Peter

Peter Hooper (b. 1919)

Contents

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 1

The Saviours
Observation from a fixed Point

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 27 [missing]

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

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)

Ireland, Kevin

Kevin Ireland (b. 1933)

Contents:

Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):

A Hard Country
Cloud
A Whiff of the Old Adam
Villanelle for a Smile

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD18

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

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 1

Deposition
Thorn and Wind
Threnody (for Bob Lowry)

LP 3, side 1

Antic Hay
A Hard Country

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 1

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

Bio /Bibliography:

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

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

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

Jackson, Michael

Michael Jackson (b. 1940)

Contents:

Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):

Shape-Shifter
The Red Road
Seven Mysteries
Sudan
Green Turtle

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD19

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

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974):

LP 2, side 2

Paremata

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 22

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

Bio /Bibliography:

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

Selected Bibliography:

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