Bornholdt, Jenny

Jenny Bornholdt (b. 1960)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

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

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD04

1. Scrub cut [1-2]
2. Poem
3. Rodnie and her bicycles
4. Weighing up the heart
5. In love
6. The loved one
7. Bus stop [1-2]
8. Wedding song
9. Red lorry yellow lorry
10. The journey
11. Annunciation (after Simone Martini)
12. Romance
13. Tornado
14. Weather
15. Then Murray came
16. Please, pay attention (after Carlos Drummond de Andrade)

Bio / Bibliography:

Jenny Bornholdt was born in Lower Hutt in 1960, and educated at Victoria University and Wellington Polytechnic. An interest in writing led her to take Bill Manhire’s creative writing course at Victoria University in 1984, after which her work started to appear regularly in literary journals. In 1988, her first collection of poetry, This Big Face, came out with Victoria University Press. Since then, there have been five further collections (all with Victoria University Press), several pamphlets, and a selected works: 1997’s Miss New Zealand. She has also been an anthologist, co-editing (with Gregory O’Brien) a collection of New Zealand love poems, My Heart Goes Swimming (Godwit, 1996) and the 1997 Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Writing in English, with O’Brien and Mark Williams. In 2002, she was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship to Menton. Bornholdt lives in Wellington, where she has worked as a journalist and copywriter.

Biblio:

This Big Face, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1988
Moving House, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1989
Waiting Shelter, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1991
How We Met, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995
Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1997
Caravan (with Gregory O’Brien; illustrated by Noel McKenna), Wellington: Animated Figure, 1998
These Days, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2000
The Way: A Poem, Wellington: Fernbank Studio, 2000
Ode to the Little Hotel, Wellington: Fernbank Studio, 2002
Summer, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2003

Edited:

My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems (with Gregory O’Brien), Auckland: Godwit, 1996
An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (with Gregory O’Brien and Mark Williams), Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997

Bland, Peter

[(November, 2003)]

Peter Bland (b. 1934)

Contents:

Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance (2006):

Death of a Dog
The Nose
The Happy Army
Shopping with Brigitte Bardot

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD04

1. Death of a Dog
2. The Nose
3. The Happy Army
4. A Sonnet for Exiles
5. Mr Maui at Buckingham Palace
6. Mr Maui at the Marbella Beach Club
7. Mr Maui on the Way to the Film Studio
8. Letters Home — New Zealand 1885 [1-7]
9. Let’s Meet …
10. St Kevin’s Arcade – Auckland [1-4]
11. Shopping with Brigitte Bardot

Bio /Bibliography:

Peter Bland was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, in 1934 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1954. He worked with the NZBC to establish some of New Zealand’s first arts and social commentary programmes. In 1964 he was a co-founder of Wellington’s Downstage theatre and its artistic director from 1964 to 1968. He was closely associated with the Wellington group of poets, which included Louis Johnson, James K Baxter, and Alistair Campbell, helping to edit the literary magazine Numbers His first collection of poems My Side of the Story was published by Mate Books in Auckland in 1964 and won a Melbourne Festival Literary Award.

In 1969 Peter Bland returned to the UK on an Arts Council Drama Fellowship to work at the Bristol Old Vic. In the 70’s and 80’s he established himself as a regular West-end actor, appearing in numerous comedies and as a frequent guest artist on current UK TV shows.

In 1976 he published his first UK collection Mr Maui with London Magazine Editions. It won a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He published two further collections with London Magazine Editions, Stone Tents (1981) and The Crusoe Factor (1985). In 1977 he was given a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry by the British Society of Authors.

Peter Bland returned to live in New Zealand in 1984 and to star in the film Came a Hot Friday, for which he won a GOFTA Best Film Actor Award. He published his Selected Poems with John McIndoe and a further collection Paper Boats also with John McIndoe. In 1998 Carcanet Press in the UK published his new Selected Poems. His most recent collections are Let’s Meet and Ports of Call, both published in 2003 by Steele Roberts in Wellington. His collection of verse for children The Night Kite is due from Mallinson Rendel in March 2004, and his memoir Sorry, I’m a stranger here myself from Random House in August 2004. He is represented in all the major New Zealand Poetry Anthologies, and several in the UK, including The Penguin Book of the 20th Century in Poetry. He lives in Auckland and is married with three children and seven grandchildren.

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.

Bridge, Diana

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Diana Bridge (b. 1942)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD04

1. Chrysanthemum
2. Transparent evening
3. Images for sages
4. The drums
5. At the entrance to the Lu Tomb
6. The root
7. Sister section
8. Lotus pond
9. The true tourist

Bio / Bibliography:

Born, Hampshire, U.K., 28/12/1942. Brought up in New Zealand. Schooling: Queen Margaret College, Wellington. Qualifications: M.A. (Hons.) in English Language and Literature, Victoria University of Wellington; Ph.D., Australian National University. Dissertation on a formative period of Chinese classical poetry. She has also attended the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and the Central Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing.

Worked as a diplomatic trainee in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Married Nicholas Bridge and accompanied him on postings to London, Singapore, Beijing, Canberra, Hong Kong, New Delhi and Taipei. Three children: two daughters and a son.

Work opportunities limited by a travelling career but has taught in the Chinese Department of Hong Kong University; and, on an occasional basis, at Victoria University. Some reviewing.

She has returned to Wellington permanently and is currently in receipt of a grant from Creative New Zealand, which she is using to work on a fourth book of poems.

Publications:

Landscape with Lines (Auckland University Press, 1996)
The Girls on the Wall (Auckland University Press, 1999)
Porcelain (Auckland University Press, 2001)

Brown, Bernard

Bernard Brown (b. 1934)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD05

1. Promises
2. Treats
3. Waters at Baiae
4. Just Looking
5. Hearth and Cloister
6. What a Garden’s For
7. Love Suite Love
8. Amends
9. Photo Opportunity: with Lines to a Mother
10. “Today” in Two Parts - on my birthday in 1973 and on my birthday in 2002
11. Groundmark
12. Thoughts on a Fine Day
13. Nervous Service
14. Old Michael Mac and the Red Revolution
15. Ruby Anniversary
16. Two Lives and Others Too
17. Canal Knowledge
18. Respects
19. To Light Applause

Bio / Bibliography:

BORN:

20 April 1934 at Hadleigh, Suffolk, England.

EDUCATED:

Sudbury Grammar School; Leeds University (LL.B. (Hons) 1955); University of Singapore (LL.M. 1963); Fellow of the Legal Research Foundation, 1992; Honorary Life Member, Criminal Bar Association of New Zealand 2001; University of Auckland Distinguished Teaching Medal, 1995.

WORK:

Agricultural Labourer; Railways Goods Porter; Flying Officer RAF (Sword of Honour, 1957) - service in Singapore, Malaya and Borneo. Lecturer in Law, then Associate Professor - Singapore University, Auckland University; ANU Foundation Fellow in Papua New Guinea 1966-1969; Auckland University (again). Retired 1999. Then part-time teacher, Auckland University, to present.

HONOURS:

New Zealand Order of Merit (Officer), 2000.

APPOINTMENTS:

(extra to ‘work’). 1970-1980, Member of the Criminal Law Reform Committee (Department of Justice, New Zealand); 1969-present, Member of the Council, Legal Research Foundation Inc.; 1970-present, Treasurer, PEN (NZ) Auckland Branch (now New Zealand Society of Authors (inc. PEN (NZ)), also 1970-81, Secretary, Auckland Branch.

PUBLICATIONS:

Up To Nowadays, Auckland: Acorn Press, 1973.
Victims and Traders, Wellington: Mallinson Rendell, 1980.
Surprising the Slug, Queen Charlotte Sound: Cape Catley, 1996.
Unspeakable Practices, Auckland: Cape Catley, 2001.
“Respects” in Best New Zealand Poems 2001 (ed. Manhire, International Institute of Modern Letters, and Creative NZ) 2002.

Brenstrum, Erick

Erick Brenstrum (b. 1951)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD04

1. How the Oyster
2. High Country
3. To Soledad
4. Midwinter Festival Cuzco June 1978
5. The Wind
6. Every Small Bird
7. Instincts Gather
8. More Stories from Books
9. Summer
10. Language
11. As the Seed
12. Fish of Love
13. Wave-runner
14. Choices
15. Makara: A Small Feast
16. Santiago 22 Years On
17. Minute by Minute
18. Raptor
19. Flight

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 7

Ruamahunga
Southern Coast
Ceremonial
Late April
Autumn
Sunday
Two Poets
Poem
Cycle
Definition

Bio / Bibliography:

Born New Plymouth 1951. Grew up in Wellington. BSc in Maths and Physics from Victoria University. Has worked as a weather forecaster with New Zealand Meteorological Service since 1974, apart from a year travelling in South America in the late seventies. Writes a column on meteorology in New Zealand Geographic magazine and continues to publish poetry here and there.

Biblio:

Poetry - Thalassa , published 1982.
Non-fiction - The New Zealand Weather Book, published 1998

Brown, Diane

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Diane Brown (b. 1951)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD05

1. Eight Stages of Grace
2. Postcards from Auckland
3. the poem as fart
4. Presumptuous advice to the reluctant crone
5. She asks me to write about sex
6. the woman in this poem
7. running in the family
8. Before the Divorce we go to Disneyland
9. a walk in Hone Heke country
10. left to the imagination
11. under the trees
12. in the absence of my lover
13. who makes the first move?
14. First morning Albert Park: 4.30am
15. follow me if you will
16. a proposal of sorts
17. Poem in the Matukituki Valley
18. on leaving
19. My last born goes to the circus without me
20. Sutherland St, early morning
21. After nine days up north

Bio / Bibliography:

Diane Brown lives in Dunedin. Her first book Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland, a combination of prose and poetry, was published by Tandem Press in 1997. She won the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 1997 and has received grants from Creative New Zealand.

Her novel If The Tongue Fits was published by Tandem Press in 1999 and was in the Top 20 of the Listener Women’s Book Festival in 1999. Her verse novel Eight Stages of Grace was published by Vintage in 2002.

Her short stories and poems have appeared in a variety of magazines including Landfall, Metro, North and South, the Listener, Poetry NZ and Quote Unquote. She has won poetry competitions in New Zealand and England. She is Chair of the Otago-Southland Branch of the Society of Authors and teaches a five-month full-time fiction writing course at Aoraki Polytechnic.

Books:

Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland, Tandem Press Auckland, 1997
If The Tongue Fits, Tandem Press, 1999
Eight Stages of Grace, Random House, Auckland 2002

Awards:

Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship 1997
NZSA Jessie Mackay Award Best First Book of Poetry Montana Book Awards 1997 for Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland,
TOP 20 Listener Women’s Book Festival 1999 for If The Tongue Fits

Brown, James

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

James Brown (b. 1966)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

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

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD05

1. The Year of the Mountain
2. A Great Day
3. Little things, lend me thy strength
4. Loneliness
5. Out of Eden
6. All We Have
7. Soup From a Stone
8. The Radiant Fuel
9. The Crewe Cres Kids
10. Learning to Read
11. The Day I Stopped Writing Poetry

Bio / Bibliography:

James Brown was born in 1966 and lives in Wellington with his partner and two children.

His poems have been widely published in magazines in both New Zealand and Australia. He is a past winner of the Takahe Poetry Competition and a former Editor of the literary magazine Sport.

His first book, Go Round Power Please, was shortlisted in the 1996 Montana New Zealand Book Awards and won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry. His second collection, Lemon, was published in 1999, Elizabeth Knox calling it ‘possibly the year’s best New Zealand book’. His third collection, Favourite Monsters, was published to acclaim in 2002.

Brown has held the 1994 Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary, a 2000 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship and the 2001 University of Canterbury Writer in Residence Fellowship. In 2002, Go Round Power Please and Lemon were shortlisted in the inaugural Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters.

Bibliodata:

Go Round Power Please, Victoria University Press, 1995
Lemon, Victoria University Press, 1999
Instructions For Poetry Readings (with Dr Ernest M. Bluespire), Braunias University Press, 2002
Favourite Monsters, Victoria University Press, 2002

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

Bullock, Owen

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Owen Bullock (b. 1967)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD06

1. something here
2. tunnel music
3. choosing
4. the patients
5. in our town
6. ample alone
7. untitled music
8. Summer, Hauraki Plains
9. Poem for Martin Wilson
10. country man confused in Auckland for a day
11. suits in Seoul
12. everybody knows

Bio / Bibliography:

Owen Bullock came to New Zealand in 1989, from Cornwall, via Wales. He’s done that list of bizarre occupations, never really settling to anything. As well as poetry, he writes songs and stories and his haiku and related forms have been published in many countries. He enjoys reading his poems at gatherings in Auckland, Tauranga and Waihi (where he lives) and has performed at the Flaming Fringe in Hamilton. Acting and music are other passions. He is married to Cathie, also a poet, and they have three children.

Camp, Kate

[Creative NZ (2011)]

Kate Camp (b. 1972)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Postcard
Documentaries
Backroads
Water of the Sweet Life
Guests

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


Bio /Bibliography:

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

POETRY:

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

CRITICISM:


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

Colquhoun, Glenn

[Scoop Media]

Glenn Colquhoun (b. 1964)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

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

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


Bio /Bibliography:

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

POETRY:

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

CRITICISM:

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

FOR CHILDREN:

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

Campbell, Meg

[Photograph: Patricia Reesby]

Meg Campbell (1937-2007)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD06

1. Fish
2. After Loving
3. Aftermath
4. Brown Peahen
5. Bee of Anger
6. Journeys
7. Disturbances

Bio / Bibliography:

I was born in 1937 in Palmerston North, the second of five children. At 8 yrs I was sent to boarding school in Takapuna, Auckland. After a year I returned home to Palmerston North and attended a small, private school called Carncot until I was sent to Wellington to boarding school. Continued an interest in English and Drama while at Samuel Marsden from '51 to '53.

I continued my love of the theatre, joining "Manawatu Repertory" back in Palmerston North. In Jan. 1956 I attended a Summer Drama School at Massey College and then headed for Wellington to become a student of Rhona Davis.and sit A.T.C.L. hoping to head for London, and Drama School, there.

In 1958 I married the poet Alistair Campbell and with him had three children, Aurelian, Josephine and Maringikura.

Bibliography:

The Way Back, Te Kotare Press, 1981.

A Durable Fire, Te Kotare Press, 1982

Orpheus and Other Poems, Te Kotare Press, 1990

How things are, (with three other poets), Whitireia Publishing and Daphne Brassell Associates Press,1996

The Better Part, Hazard Press, 2000

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.

Chan, David

David Chan (b. 1960)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD06

1. Ivory ball
2. 100 year old egg
3. Grandfather
4. Memory-fish
5. Poem for five years
6. A poem you will never read
7. In this city

Bio / Bibliography:

David Chan was born in Auckland in 1960. His work has been published in various Australian journals and the 1995 collection, From Yellow Earth to Eucalypt. His poem ‘100 Year Old Egg’ placed second in the 1993 Australian National Radio Poetry Prize.

Featured in:

Picador New Writing, 2 (1994)
From Yellow Earth to Eucalypt: Stories and Poems from China and Australia, Melbourne: Longman, 1995

Chad, Tony

[Photograph: HeadworX]

Tony Chad

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD06

1. A Possum's Tail
2. My First Home
3. The last waltz
4. Letter from Ireland
5. Hirondelles
6. Ricardo
7. In case you were wondering ….
8. Snake
9. Six
10. Mastering the Arts
11. How it is
12. Welcome to LA
13. S E P A R A T I O N
14. A Coming Of Age
15. Playing the game
16. Clearing out the Closet
17. After

Bio / Bibliography:

Tony Chad is a full time musician and poet living in the country just outside Upper Hutt. He is the managing editor of SPIN magazine and editor of monthly poetry magazine Valley Micropress whose first anthology All Together Now!was released last year. He is well known for his poetry and original songs, and for performances with his Celtic band Finn McCool who have appeared at Summer City, Orientation and Toast Martinborough as well as many Irish Pubs & Clubs from Wellington to Taranaki and Hawkes Bay. Tony performs solo or with Scottish fiddler Alistair Cuthill, has performed music and poetry at folk clubs all around the North Island plus solo excursions to the South Island and has presented workshops to adults and to school-children in both islands. He has organised and performed in two celebrations of Montana Poetry Day in Upper Hutt, along with performers such as Sam Hunt, James Brown, and Lewis Scott.

Tony has appeared many times in the Wellington Fringe Festival - twice in Stand Up Poets, three times in Welcome to the Flat Earthers and a Band of Poets, once in Upper Hutt's Kool Store and once in Upper Hutt Comes to Town. His work has appeared in several editions of JAAM and Poetry NZ as well as many anthologies and magazines in New Zealand and overseas. Much of his work targets people in business, aiming to question how we sell our time and why, and what becomes of our creativity and our sensitivity in the process. After 20 years corporate computing he is enthusiastically embracing a life after corporate death.

Sun over Kapiti (1995) album of original music: CD.

Tigers, Wild Pigs & Possums ISBN 0-473-05031-5. (Aug 1997)

Caselberg, John

John Caselberg (1927-2004)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD06

1. Invocation
2. from The Sound Of The Morning [9,12]
3. The Wake [1-9]

Bio / Bibliography:

John Caselberg was born at Wakefield, a small farming locality near Nelson, in 1927. His father, who had been a rural G.P., left the family for Australia the same year, and Caselberg moved with his mother and sisters to Nelson. He attended Bishop’s School and Nelson College, and had early contact with Nelson’s painting community. (These links were to prove enduring. Caselberg’s wife, the painter Anna Caselberg, was the daughter of Nelson artist Tosswill Wollaston, whom Caselberg had met while still a teenager.) After leaving school, Caselberg enrolled at the University of Otago to study medicine. During his time in Dunedin, he befriended the poet James K. Baxter, and made his first attempts at writing fiction and poetry. In 1948, during a brief stay in Christchurch, Baxter introduced him to the painter Colin McCahon. Caselberg and McCahon became frequent correspondents, and Caselberg was to take photographs of McCahon’s paintings with him to show art dealers in Europe during his O.E. in 19501.

Returning to New Zealand in 1951, Caselberg worked briefly on the state hydroelectric scheme in central Otago before moving to Christchurch in early 1952 to train as a teacher. Now living in the same city, he and McCahon quickly extended their friendship into a working relationship. They co-founded the arts broadsheet Issue, the first number of which (June 1952) contained a sequence of seven poems by Caselberg, accompanied by a McCahon linocut. A second issue appeared in September, but a third - which was to contain a jointly-authored treatise ‘On the Nature of Art’ - was never published.

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Caselberg had been writing poetry and submitting it for publication in local journals. In 1954, his first volume of poetry, The Sound of the Morning, appeared under the Pegasus imprint; it contained the seven poems published earlier in Issue 1. The following year, Caselberg shifted to Auckland, where he continued writing - a short story, ‘Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani’, won Landfall’s Prose Award for 1957. That same year, McCahon produced a series of lithographs based on the text of the poem ‘Van Gogh’ (from Sound of the Morning), and Caselberg had published the first of eight critical articles on McCahon’s work.

In 1965, the Nag’s Head Press published Caselberg’s Six Songs and The Wake. ‘The Wake’ was a poetry sequence written on the death of Caselberg’s dog, Thor, the text of which McCahon incorporated into his 16-panel painting, ‘The Wake’ (1958). In 1961, after their marriage, the Caselbergs moved to Dunedin, where Caselberg took a Burns Fellowhip at the University of Otago. During his time there, he wrote the first in a series of verse dramas on nineteenth-century Maori and Pakeha relations, Duaterra, King. Four further plays in the sequence were written over the next two decades. In 1973, Caselberg’s travel writing and art criticism (including extracts from the unpublished ‘On the Nature of Art’) was collected in Chart to My Country. 1989’s Lines contains material from Caselberg’s previously-written verse dramas; Matins & Other Verse followed in 1992. In 2002, Caselberg’s biography of R.A.K. Mason, Poet Triumphant, (completed some years earlier) appeared with Steele Roberts. Peter Simpson’s Answering Hark (Nelson: Craig Potton, 2001) documents the Caselberg/McCahon relationship, and reproduces much unpublished material.

John Caselberg died in Dunedin on April 16, 2004.

Bibliography:

Sound of the Morning (Christchurch: Pegasus, 1954)
Six Songs and the Wake (Christchurch: Nag’s Head Press, 1965)
Lines: Scenes and Passages from Verse Dramas (Christchurch: Nag’s Head, 1989)
Matins: & Other Verse (Christchurch: Nag’s Head, 1992)

Chan, Jill

[Photograph: Mateo Chan, Jr.]

Jill Chan (b. 1973)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD07

1. The First Patient
2. The Smell of Oranges
3. Earth
4. Tug
5. Imagination
6. The Acts
7. First Day
8. Reckoning
9. Work of Art
10. Turning
11. A Death
12. Holding Up
13. The Bone
14. Corners
15. Afterimage
16. Watermark
17. The Gift
18. The Conversation
19. The Conversation 2
20. Quantum
21. Trust
22. Occupation
23. Density
24. What We Covered
25. Weight
26. Dexterity
27. Faith
28. Momentary States of Darkness

Bio / Bibliography:

Jill Chan was born and grew up in Manila, Philippines. She migrated to New Zealand in 1994.

Her poems have been published in JAAM, Poetry New Zealand, Brief, MiPOesias, foam:e, Tears in the Fence, Blue Fifth Review, Asia and Pacific Writers Network, Otoliths, and some other magazines.

She was among the new and emerging writers mentioned in PEN American Center's year-end members survey for 2005.

She is the editor of Poetry Sz: demystifying mental illness, and Numinous: Spiritual Poetry, and co-editor of Best New Poems Online.

Publications:

• The Smell of Oranges (Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2003)
• Becoming Someone Who Isn't (Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2007)
• These Hands Are Not Ours (Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2009)

Chanwai-Earle, Lynda

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Lynda Chanwai-Earle (b. 1965)

Contents:

New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008):

Details from a personal journal
Gasp

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD07

1. To Hastings with love
2. Details from a personal journal
3. Gasp

12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):

Gasp

Bio / Bibliography:

Born in London 1965 she spent a large part of her childhood in Papua New Guinea. She holds a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts and a Post Graduate Diploma in Drama from Auckland University. In 1994 Lynda published her first book of poetry, Honeypants with Auckland University Press. In 1995 Honeypants was selected for the Penn Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards. Lynda worked as an actor and script co-ordinator with Jim Moriarty’s theatre group Te Rakau Hua O Te Wao Tapu from 1995 to 1999, touring and creating theatre throughout schools and prisons around Aotearoa.

Ka-Shue (Letters Home) is New Zealand’s first contemporary theatre piece about the Chinese community, a solo show written and performed by Lynda Chanwai-Earle, based on her own family background as a Eurasian and a Chinese New Zealander. Ka-Shue was published in 1998.

"Ka Shue gives voice to the experience of a young Chinese New Zealand woman ... the staging is simple and effective ... the delight of a girl discovering her Chinese heritage is beautifully communicated ... a family saga of blockbuster proportions.”

The Dominion, 1997

Critically acclaimed, Lynda’s most recent stage production Fire Mountain (Foh-Sarn) is a play about young and new immigrant Asians;

“… (Fire Mountain) explodes into violent action and a fiery, tragic climax… a stunningly beautiful production …”
Susan Budd,
The NZ Herald 31.10.00
“… Ground-breaking theatre …”
The Listener, 29.10.00

Lynda is currently the Writer in Residence with Capital E, The National Children’s Theatre, developing her next play Monkey. She lives and works in Auckland as a Reporter/Director for the television programme Asia Down Under (TVNZ).

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.

Cooke, Kay McKenzie

Kay McKenzie Cooke (b. 1953)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD08

1. Stuart Street
2. a weasel crosses
3. there’s no lie
4. kaka beak red
5. Te Wae Wae Bay
6. tongue-tied
7. feeding the dogs
8. the rifle
9. the triangle shop idea might even work
10. teased hair and perfect eyesight
11. heat and cold
12. ‘I love this farm so much I could pat it’

Bio / Bibliography:

Kay McKenzie Cooke was born in Tuatapere, Southland 1953 and spent her formative years on farms in Southland. She is of Scottish, Irish, English and Maori descent. She has lived in Dunedin for twenty years. She is married to Robert and they have three sons. Kay also has a daughter and grand-daughter. Her first book of poems called feeding the dogs was published by University of Otago Press in 2002. Kay is a trained Primary and Early Childhood Teacher and works part-time in the Education Sector.

Bibliography:

All of the poems I read are in my first collection of poetry called feeding the dogs which was published by University of Otago Press in 2002.

I have had haiku published in the Second NZ Haiku Anthology ed. by Cyril Childs.

I have also had poems published in various lit. magazines including Glottis, Sport, JAAM, Poetry NZ. I have had work published in ezines S.O.R. and Trout.

Cummings, James Moeroa

James Moeroa Cummings

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD08

1. No. 4
2. Letter Home
3. Surfin TV Blues
4. Skid and the Rainbow
5. The Kind of Kindness that Kittens can do Without
6. Miles Dead Blues
7. Saxmansmacksoundaround
8. As Time Goes By
9. Mahalia Sings to my Troubled heart
10. No. 3
11. The Moment
12. Jason’s Song
13. The Unemployed Angels

Bio / Bibliography:

James Moeroa Cummings lives in Christchurch.

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

Curnow, Wystan

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Wystan Curnow (b. 1939)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD09

1. from From the Art Hotel

Bio / Bibliography:

I have published 3 books of poetry:

Back in the USA, Wellington, Black Light press, 1989;
Cancer Daybook, Auckland, Van Guard Xpress, 1989,
Castor Bay, proses and pictures, Auckland, Holloway Press, 1996.

My work has been included in 11 anthologies and appeared in 24 literary magazines in New Zealand, the UK and USA. I was a co-founder and editor of SPLASH magazine. 1984-1987.

I have myself or with others written or edited 25 books and exhibition catalogues, curated 24 exhibitions mainly in New Zealand, but also in the US, Britain and Holland. I have presented 39 conference papers in 8 countries. I co-organized the conference, Is Art a European Idea? for the 1994 Wellington International Festival of the Arts. I have co-organised a panel on Cartography and contemporary art for the 2003 International Conference on the History of Cartography at Harvard. My work has been translated into Japanese, French, Dutch, Croatian, German, and Russian.

Davidson, Lynn

Lynn Davidson

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD09

1. Alan Paints the House
2. Cape Gooseberries
3. Greenstick Fracture
4. How to Eat Cape Gooseberries
5. Hunger
6. Loving Words
7. Poem for Tamara
8. Salt Works
9. Tuning Fork

Bio / Bibliography:

Lynn Davidson has written a book of poems, Mary Shelley’s Window, published by Pemmican Press in 1999 and a novel, Ghost Net, published by Otago University Press in 2003. Lynn has had many of her short stories and poems published in literary journals and magazines, most often in Landfall and Sport. Her short stories have also been produced for national radio. In 2002, Lynn was part of the Porirua Poets exhibition at Pataka, Porirua Museum of Arts and Cultures - an exhibition of poems with photographs.

Lynn lives with her family on the coast north of Wellington.

Dane, Peter

[Photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

Peter Dane (1921-2016)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD09

1. I Love Two Women
2. Make Me Gay
3. The Life We Share
4. Post Mortem
5. The Albatross Is Dead
6. The Play Has Ended
7. To Be Carefree
8. The Curtain Rises
9. Learning To Trust
10. So Near so Far [1-3]
11. Is It Time?
12. Can These Bones Live?
13. Reel
14. The Long and the Short of it
15. Cruel Memory [1-2]
16. Illimitable
17. Disclosure

Waiata Archive (1974):

CD 9

Three Poems from the German of Christian Morgenstern
1. An Aesthetic Creature
2. The Fence
3. The Sigh
Just to Show What He Could Do
Sunday Afternoon
Parhelion – on Van Gogh’s Night Piece with Stars
Dutch Interior on Peter Jansen’s Woman reading
Sunset at Muriwai
Muriwai
The Parting
After the Parting
Unfinished
The Spider & the Fly
Heard melodies are sweet …

Bio / Bibliography:

Born in Berlin in 1921, of mixed German and Jewish parentage. Fled to England in 1939. Interned as an enemy alien in 1940 and transported to Australia. Returned to England in 1942. Married Gabriele Herrmann in 1945, when he was a stoker and she was a qualified nurse. Studied Mathematics and Philosophy, then Greek, Theology and Literature. Graduated from London University in 1952. Taught at Makere in Uganda for eight years, and from 1962 to 1986 taught English Literature at Auckland University. His passion for Art in its various forms, in the early ‘70s joined forces with a passionate concern for the environment, which sustains all life and art. Peter Dane died on the 29th July, 2016.

Publications:

Twenty-four Sonnets, Auckland: The Lowry Press, University of Auckland, 1982.
The Albatross is Dead: Sixty Sonnets, Auckland: Hudson Cresset, , 2000.
‘Dutch Interior’, Poetry NZ 5 (ed. Riemke Ensing) 1992.
‘Hate’, Listener, 12 October 2002
‘Air and Angels’, Southern Review, Vol. 17, No. 3, November, 1979 (prize-winning essay)
‘Rosemary Menzies’, Creative Forum, Vol. 11, Nos. 1-2, Jan-June, 1998 (eds. R.K. Singh and U.S. Bahri).

Davis, Leigh

Leigh Davis (1955-2009)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD09

1. Section 1: Labour Friday, Coastal Classic (from The Office of the Dead)
2. Section VIII: The Other Day (from The Office of the Dead)

Bio / Bibliography:

Leigh Davis lives in Auckland. He is an investment banker. He writes sometimes, about art, and he writes poetry, as well. His published works include Willy's Gazette (1983), Earth-Bound Ghosts (1998), General Motors (2000), and The Book of Hours (2002). The last three were multi-media works.

Website: www.jackbooks.com

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.

Dickson, John

[photograph: Jan Kemp (2002)]

John Dickson (b. 1944)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD10

1. To start with
2. plainsong
3. spinster
4. roadside
5. her words, her vision mainly
6. a glimmering of grand ultimate fist
7. memory
8. the fortune teller
9. sleeper

Bio / Bibliography:

Born 1944 in Milton, South Otago. Lives in Dunedin. Burns Fellow 1988. University of Waikato Writer-in-Residence 2000.

Books:

What happened on the way to Oamaru, Christchurch: Untold, c.l986.
Sleeper, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998.

Audiocassette:

‘butan’. Christchurch: New Edge, c.1991.

Dowrick, Lee

[Photograph: NZ Book Council]

Lee Dowrick (b. 1931)

Contents

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD10

1. Writing to My Father
2. His Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland 1902 – 1988
His Majesty’s Theatre (performance version)
3. A Manhunt … By Design … Fifties Style
4. The Bay
5. No More Settlers Allowed
6. You Went to China
7. News Item
8. Off-target
9. A Different Garden
10. Footprints
11. Swindled
12. Little Cleopatra, 1941
13. Dangerous, 1936

Bio / Bibliography:

Lee Dowrick lives and writes in Devonport on Auckland’s North Shore.

She grew up with her four brothers and a sister in Waipukurau, Hawke’s Bay. Stock Sale days on Tuesdays, empty paddocks with creeks, trees and bridges along the Tukituki river set their scene.

In the fifties she changed trains at Palmerston North and headed for the Big Smoke, Auckland, a culture shock that was alive with jobs and adventure. Freelance participation in feature and story writing for newspapers and magazines(plus putting personal pomes in people’s pay packets to relieve office routines), led to an established interest as a writer. This she picked up again when she ‘retired’ in 1991. She now joins in and organizes poetry workshops and readings for festivals, shows and private functions. She also works along with a special language teacher in workshops for children to write, perform and publish their own poetry in small booklets.

Bibliodata.

Some of Lee‘s poetry comes from her country childhood during wartime and from life in the city in the fifties. Current social comment and politics lurk within her current work. Some is written specifically for performance.

Her poems have been placed in several New Zealand and Australian competitions and published in Printout, Spin, Poetry NZ, Takahe, NZ Listener and Glottis, and contemporary collections Doors, Jewels in the Water and Something Between Breaths. She has recorded selected poems for the NZ National Archives.

Her first collection, based on working in the public service during Rogernomics,
What’s left in politics? with drawings by Kate Wells, was self published in 1993.
In 1998 - That was Then – was published by Christian Gray NZ
and in 2001 - I run in my stilettos was published by Bookcaster Press. There were interviews and readings from these on National Radio.

Lee has read some of her short stories on Access Radio, a NZ science fiction story "Three is a Cloud" is anthologised in Star Songs, some have appeared in magazines. A short short story in The Third Century, Tandem Press 1999.

She has also won some competitions for children’s poems and her work has been published in Allsorts magazine, School Journals, Another 100 NZ poems for Children, NZ Memories and broadcast on National Radio children’s programmes.

Poetry collections:

That was Then (Christian Gray NZ) 1998
I run in my Stilettos (Bookcaster Press) 2001.