Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
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The Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry is one category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards, given out annually. The award carries a $5,000 prize for each winner of the category awards, including the award for poetry.

"The purpose of this award is to reward literary excellence in poetic works. The winning book will, in the opinion of the judges, be a significant addition to the literature of New Zealand. Included in this category will be selections and collections of poetry."

"The judges consider each book as a whole while giving particular attention to specific elements, including enduring literary merit, overall quality of authorship, illustrations, design and presentation, impact on the community, and the promotion of entertainment, cultural and educational values.

"General judging criteria apply to all books submitted, regardless of the category they are submitted under."
Awards are made in eight categories: Fiction, Poetry, History, Biography, Reference & Anthology, Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture, Environment and Illustrative

Montana Wines is the main sponsor of the awards. Other sponsors are Creative New Zealand, the Book Publishers Association of New Zealand, the New Zealand Society of Authors and Book Tokens (NZ) Ltd.

History

Formed in 1996, the set of national awards combines the Montana (previously Goodman Fielder Wattie) Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards. The awards for poetry follow.

The Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards ran from 1968-1993. Originally called the Wattie Awards, they changed their name when the Wattie Company merged with Goodman Fielder. First, second and third place were awarded, and books were not divided by genre but competed in a single category. In 1994, the Award was continued under the new name "Montana Book Awards", and the awards were made in three categories: fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

Winners of the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, since 1996

  • 2006
    2006 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World in Lyon...

    : Bill Manhire
    Bill Manhire
    William "Bill" Manhire, CNZM is an award-winning New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate.-Biography:...

    , Lifted
  • 2005
    2005 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* October 7 — Celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the first reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl were staged in San Francisco, New York City, and in Leeds in the UK...

    : Vincent O'Sullivan
    Vincent O'Sullivan (poet)
    Vincent Gerard O’Sullivan is New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, critic and editor....

    , Nice morning for it, Adam
  • 2004
    2004 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* April 1 — Foetry.com Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests. Tracking the sycophants...

    : Anne Kennedy
    Anne Kennedy
    Anne Kennedy is a New Zealand poet, writer, and filmwriter.-Life:She was educated in Wellington, she has been a piano teacher and music librarian and since 1986, a freelance scriptwriter. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Victoria University of Wellington...

    , Sing-song
  • 2003
    2003 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry was opened at Queens University, Belfast, this year. It houses the Heaney Media Archive, a unique record of Heaney's entire oeuvre, as well as a full catalogue of...

    : Glenn Colquhoun
    Glenn Colquhoun
    Dr. Glenn Colquhoun, born in Papakura, Auckland in 1964, is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner.-Life:He practices medicine on the Kapiti Coast. He lives in Waikawa Beach with his young daughter Olive....

    , Playing God
  • 2002
    2002 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Britain, publishes a poem praising a suicide bomber who had killed himself and two Israelis after blowing himself up in a supermarket; the...

    : Hone Tuwhare
    Hone Tuwhare
    Hone Tuwhare was a noted New Zealand poet of Māori ancestry. He is closely associated with The Catlins in the Otago region of New Zealand, where he lived for the latter part of his life.-Early years:...

    , Piggy-Back Moon
  • 2001
    2001 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, W. H...

    : Allen Curnow
    Allen Curnow
    Thomas Allen Munro Curnow ONZ CBE was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Curnow was born in Timaru and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury University, and Auckland University...

    , The Bells of Saint Babels
  • 2000
    2000 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally.* February —...

    : Elizabeth Smither
    Elizabeth Smither
    Elizabeth Smither MNZM is a New Zealand poet and writer.She worked as a librarian.-Awards:* 2002 Te Mata Poet Laureate.* 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry* 2008 Prime Minister's Award for poetry....

    , The Lark Quartet
  • 1999
    1999 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* July 1 — Scotland's Parliament opened with the singing of Robert Burns' "A Man's a Man For A'That", instead of "God Save The Queen"...

    : Vincent O'Sullivan
    Vincent O'Sullivan (poet)
    Vincent Gerard O’Sullivan is New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, critic and editor....

    , Seeing You Asked
  • 1998
    1998 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago .* Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas....

    : Hone Tuwhare
    Hone Tuwhare
    Hone Tuwhare was a noted New Zealand poet of Māori ancestry. He is closely associated with The Catlins in the Otago region of New Zealand, where he lived for the latter part of his life.-Early years:...

    , Shape-Shifter
  • 1997
    1997 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inauguration....

    : Jenny Bornholdt
    Jenny Bornholdt
    Jennifer Mary Bornholdt is an award-winning New Zealand poet and anthologist.-Biography:Born in Lower Hutt, Bornholdt received a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a Diploma in Journalism...

    , Gregory O'Brien
    Gregory O'Brien
    Gregory O’Brien , is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.-Life:He trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland...

    , Mark Williams, eds., Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English
  • 1996
    1996 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* National Poetry Month was established by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996 as way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States.* The movie Dead Man, written and...

    : Bill Manhire
    Bill Manhire
    William "Bill" Manhire, CNZM is an award-winning New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate.-Biography:...

    , My Sunshine

Winners of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, 1976–1995

  • 1995
    1995 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 16 — Announcement that 300 poems by S.T...

    : Michele Leggott
    Michele Leggott
    Michele Joy Leggott MNZM is a New Zealand poet, and Associate Professor of English at the University of Auckland. She was born in Stratford, New Zealand, and received her secondary education at New Plymouth Girls High School, before attending the University of Canterbury where she completed an MA...

    , Dia
  • 1994
    1994 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Allen Ginsberg sells his papers to Stanford University for $1 million.* C. P...

    : Andrew Johnston
    Andrew Johnston (poet)
    Andrew Johnston is an award-winning New Zealand poet and journalist who works as an editor for the International Herald Tribune in Paris....

    , How to Talk
  • 1993
    1993 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 20 — Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton* T. S...

    : Brian Turner
    Brian Turner (New Zealand poet)
    Brian Turner is a New Zealand poet and author. He played hockey for New Zealand in the 1960s; senior cricket in Dunedin and Wellington; and was a veteran road cyclist of note...

    , Beyond
  • 1992
    1992 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:The Forward Book of Poetry, an annual anthology of best British poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust. By 2003, the publication was selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year...

    : Bill Manhire
    Bill Manhire
    William "Bill" Manhire, CNZM is an award-winning New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate.-Biography:...

    , Milky Way Bar
  • 1991
    1991 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Forward Poetry Prize created...

    : Cilla McQueen
    Cilla McQueen
    Cilla McQueen is a poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.-Early years and Education:McQueen's family moved to New Zealand when she was four....

    , Berlin Diary
  • 1990
    1990 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day...

    : Elizabeth Smither
    Elizabeth Smither
    Elizabeth Smither MNZM is a New Zealand poet and writer.She worked as a librarian.-Awards:* 2002 Te Mata Poet Laureate.* 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry* 2008 Prime Minister's Award for poetry....

    , A Pattern of Marching
  • 1989
    1989 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Dead Poets Society, a film incorporating excerpts from many traditional poets, ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln, "O Captain! My...

    : Cilla McQueen
    Cilla McQueen
    Cilla McQueen is a poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.-Early years and Education:McQueen's family moved to New Zealand when she was four....

    , Benzina
  • 1988
    1988 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year....

    : Anne French
    Anne French
    -Life:She graduated from Wellington Girls' College and Victoria University of Wellington with an MA. She is an editor with Oxford University Press, and became New Zealand managing editor in 1982.-Awards:* 1973 and 1974 PEN Young Writer’s Incentive Award...

    , All Cretans are Liars
  • 1987
    1987 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski, becomes the subject of the film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke....

    : Allen Curnow
    Allen Curnow
    Thomas Allen Munro Curnow ONZ CBE was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Curnow was born in Timaru and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury University, and Auckland University...

    , The Loop in Lone Kauri Road
  • 1987
    1987 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski, becomes the subject of the film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke....

    : Elizabeth Nannestad
    Elizabeth Nannestad
    -Life:She studied medicine at Otago University and has worked as a doctor and forensic psychiatrist. She lives and works in Auckland.Her work has been published in Sport, Poetry New Zealand, Landfall and Islands.-Works:*-External links:*...

    , Jump
  • 1986
    1986 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* New American Writing, an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry, is founded in Chicago, Illinois....

    : Kendrick Smithyman
    Kendrick Smithyman
    William Kendrick Smithyman was an award-winning New Zealand poet and one of the most prolific of that nation's poets in the 20th century.-Family and early life:...

    , Stories About Wooden Keyboards
  • 1985
    1985 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The term "New Formalism" was first used in the article "The Yuppie Poet" in the May 1985 issue of the AWP Newsletter in an attack on the poetry movement...

    : Bill Manhire
    Bill Manhire
    William "Bill" Manhire, CNZM is an award-winning New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate.-Biography:...

    , Zoetropes
  • 1984
    1984 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*December 19 - Philip Larkin turns down the British Poet Laureateship, and Ted Hughes becomes Poet Laureate....

    : Fleur Adcock
    Fleur Adcock
    Kareen Fleur Adcock , CNZM, OBE is a poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.-Life and career:...

    , Selected Poems
  • 1983
    1983 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Frogmore Press founded by Andre Evans and Jeremy Page at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone...

    : Allen Curnow
    Allen Curnow
    Thomas Allen Munro Curnow ONZ CBE was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Curnow was born in Timaru and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury University, and Auckland University...

    , You Will Know When You Get There
  • 1983
    1983 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Frogmore Press founded by Andre Evans and Jeremy Page at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone...

    : Cilla McQueen
    Cilla McQueen
    Cilla McQueen is a poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.-Early years and Education:McQueen's family moved to New Zealand when she was four....

    , Homing In
  • 1982
    1982 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Final edition of This Magazine published....

    : Alistair Campbell
    Alistair Campbell (poet)
    Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ONZM was a New Zealand poet, playwright, and novelist. His father was a New Zealand Scot and his mother a Cook Island Maori from Penrhyn Island.-Biography:...

    , Collected Poems
  • 1981
    1981 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Jane Greer launched Plains Poetry Journal, an advance guard of the New Formalism movement....

    : Michael Jackson (poet)
    Michael Jackson (poet)
    Michael Jackson is a poet, anthropologist, and academic.-Education:Jackson studied at Victoria University of Wellington, Auckland University, and Cambridge University...

    , Wall
  • 1988
    1980 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell started the small magazine The Reaper to promote narrative and formal poetry....

    : Allen Curnow
    Allen Curnow
    Thomas Allen Munro Curnow ONZ CBE was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Curnow was born in Timaru and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury University, and Auckland University...

    , An Incorrigible Music
  • 1979
    1979 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed....

    : Kevin Ireland
    Kevin Ireland
    Kevin Mark Ireland is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist and librettist.-Life:He lived in England in 1959 for twenty-five years...

    , Literary Cartoons
  • 1978
    1978 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published...

    : Bill Manhire
    Bill Manhire
    William "Bill" Manhire, CNZM is an award-winning New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate.-Biography:...

    , How to Take Your Clothes Off at a Picnic
  • 1978
    1978 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published...

    : Ian Wedde
    Ian Wedde
    Ian Curtis Wedde ONZM is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator.-Biography:Born in Blenheim, New Zealand, Wedde lived in East Pakistan and England as a child before returning to New Zealand. He attended King's College and University of Auckland, graduating with an MA in...

    , Spells for Coming Down
  • 1977
    1977 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January – James Dickey, composed a poem he read at new United States President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural gala although not at the inauguration itself.* British publication Gay News successfully...

    : Ruth Dallas
    Ruth Dallas
    Ruth Dallas is the pseudonym of New Zealand poet and children's author Ruth Minnie Mumford.Ruth was born in Invercargill, the daughter of Frank and Minnie Mumford. She became blind in one eye at the age of 15, then spent three years at the Southland Technical College and was engaged at the age of 19...

    , Walking in the Snow
  • 1977
    1977 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January – James Dickey, composed a poem he read at new United States President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural gala although not at the inauguration itself.* British publication Gay News successfully...

    : Alan Loney
    Alan Loney
    Alan Perress Loney is a writer, poet, editor, publisher and letterpress printer. His work has been published by University and private presses in New Zealand, Australia and North America. His own presses have printed and published many of New Zealand’s most noted poets. He has also produced books...

    , Dear Mondrian
  • 1976
    1976 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published on January 1-Works published in English:Listed by nation where the work...

    : Louis Johnson
    Louis Johnson (poet)
    -Life:He graduated from Wellington Teachers’ Training College.From 1968 to 1980, Johnson lived overseas and traveled widely, with an extended stay in Papua New Guinea....

    , Fires and Patterns
  • 1976
    1976 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published on January 1-Works published in English:Listed by nation where the work...

    : C.K. Stead, Quesada

Montana Book Award for Poetry, 1994–1995

  • 1995
    1995 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 16 — Announcement that 300 poems by S.T...

    , Michael Jackson (poet)
    Michael Jackson (poet)
    Michael Jackson is a poet, anthropologist, and academic.-Education:Jackson studied at Victoria University of Wellington, Auckland University, and Cambridge University...

    , Pieces of Music
  • 1994
    1994 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Allen Ginsberg sells his papers to Stanford University for $1 million.* C. P...

    , Bill Manhire
    Bill Manhire
    William "Bill" Manhire, CNZM is an award-winning New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate.-Biography:...

    , ed., 100 New Zealand Poems

Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award for Poetry, 1968–1993

  • 1993
    1993 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 20 — Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton* T. S...

    : Maurice Gee
    Maurice Gee
    Maurice Gee is a New Zealand novelist.-Awards and honors:Gee was awarded the 1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Plumb...

    , Going West
  • 1992
    1992 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:The Forward Book of Poetry, an annual anthology of best British poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust. By 2003, the publication was selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year...

    : Barbara Anderson, Portrait of the Artist's Wife
  • 1991
    1991 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Forward Poetry Prize created...

    : W. H. Oliver
    W. H. Oliver
    W.H. Oliver is a New Zealand historian and poet, born in Feilding, on 14 May 1925, the son of Cornish immigrants. He studied at Victoria University of Wellington and completed a PhD at Oxford University in 1953. He returned to New Zealand and lectured at University of Canterbury and Victoria,...

    , ed. The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography; Vol. 1 & Nga Tangata Taumata Rau, 1769-1869
  • 1990
    1990 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day...

    : Michael King
    Michael King
    Michael King, OBE was a New Zealand popular historian, author and biographer. He wrote or edited over 30 books on New Zealand topics, including The Penguin History of New Zealand, which was the most popular New Zealand book of 2004.-Life:King was born in Wellington to Eleanor and Commander Lewis...

     Moriori, A People Rediscovered
  • 1989
    1989 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Dead Poets Society, a film incorporating excerpts from many traditional poets, ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln, "O Captain! My...

    : Lynley Wood, Sylvia!
  • 1988
    1988 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year....

    : Claudia Orange
    Claudia Orange
    Dame Claudia Joseph Orange, DNZM, OBE is a New Zealand historian. She is best known for her book The Treaty of Waitangi, which was derived from her PhD thesis and published in 1987. It was highly successful by the standards of non-rugby related New Zealand history...

    , The Treaty of Waitangi
  • 1987
    1987 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski, becomes the subject of the film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke....

    : Maurice Shadbolt
    Maurice Shadbolt
    Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt CBE was a New Zealand writer and playwright. He was born in Auckland, and educated at Te Kuiti High School, Avondale College and Auckland University College...

    , Season of the Jew
  • 1986
    1986 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* New American Writing, an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry, is founded in Chicago, Illinois....

    : Witi Ihimaera
    Witi Ihimaera
    Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, DCNZM, QSM , generally known as Witi Ihimaera , is a New Zealand author, and is often regarded as one of the most prominent Māori writers alive.-Biography:...

    , The Matriarch
  • 1985
    1985 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The term "New Formalism" was first used in the article "The Yuppie Poet" in the May 1985 issue of the AWP Newsletter in an attack on the poetry movement...

    : Janet Frame
    Janet Frame
    Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE was a New Zealand author. She wrote eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography during her lifetime. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful...

    , The Envoy from Mirror City
  • 1984
    1984 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*December 19 - Philip Larkin turns down the British Poet Laureateship, and Ted Hughes becomes Poet Laureate....

    : Michael King
    Michael King
    Michael King, OBE was a New Zealand popular historian, author and biographer. He wrote or edited over 30 books on New Zealand topics, including The Penguin History of New Zealand, which was the most popular New Zealand book of 2004.-Life:King was born in Wellington to Eleanor and Commander Lewis...

     Maori, A Photographic and Social History
  • 1983
    1983 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Frogmore Press founded by Andre Evans and Jeremy Page at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone...

    : Janet Frame
    Janet Frame
    Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE was a New Zealand author. She wrote eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography during her lifetime. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful...

    , To the Is-land
  • 1982
    1982 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Final edition of This Magazine published....

    : Doreen Blumhardt
    Doreen Blumhardt
    Dame Doreen Blumhardt, ONZ, DNZM, CBE was a New Zealand potter, ceramicist and arts educator.-Career:...

    , & Brian Brake
    Brian Brake
    Brian Brake was one of New Zealand's most internationally successful photographers.Born in Wellington, New Zealand, John Brian Brake was the adopted son of John Samuel Brake and his wife Jennie Brake...

     Craft New Zealand
  • 1981
    1981 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Jane Greer launched Plains Poetry Journal, an advance guard of the New Formalism movement....

    : Eruera Stirling & Anne Salmond
    Anne Salmond
    Dame Mary Anne Salmond, DBE, FRSNZ, FBA is a New Zealand historian, anthropologist and writer.-Background:Salmond was born in Wellington in 1945 and grew up in Gisborne, before being sent to board at Solway College in Masterton...

     Eruera, The Teachings of a Maori Elder
  • 1980
    1980 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell started the small magazine The Reaper to promote narrative and formal poetry....

    : Albert Wendt
    Albert Wendt
    Albert Wendt, CNZM is a Samoan poet and writer who also lives in New Zealand. Among his works is Leaves of the Banyan Tree .-Biography:...

    , Leaves of the Banyan Tree
  • 1979
    1979 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed....

    : Maurice Gee
    Maurice Gee
    Maurice Gee is a New Zealand novelist.-Awards and honors:Gee was awarded the 1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Plumb...

    , Plumb
  • 1978
    1978 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published...

    : J. D. Raeside, Sovereign Chief: A Biography of Baron de Thierry
  • 1977
    1977 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January – James Dickey, composed a poem he read at new United States President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural gala although not at the inauguration itself.* British publication Gay News successfully...

    : James Munro Bertram
    James Munro Bertram
    James Munro Bertram was a Rhodes scholar, a journalist, writer, relief worker, prisoner of war and a university professor....

    , Charles Brasch
  • 1976
    1976 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published on January 1-Works published in English:Listed by nation where the work...

    : Harry Morton (writer), The Wind Commands
  • 1975
    1975 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* With the 1974, fall of the dictatorship in Greece, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 returned, and this year many began publishing in that country.* Brick Books, a...

    : Edmund Hillary
    Edmund Hillary
    Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE , was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest – see Timeline of climbing Mount Everest...

    , Nothing Venture, Nothing Win
  • 1974
    1974 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman....

    : Witi Ihimaera
    Witi Ihimaera
    Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, DCNZM, QSM , generally known as Witi Ihimaera , is a New Zealand author, and is often regarded as one of the most prominent Māori writers alive.-Biography:...

    , Tangi
  • 1973
    1973 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Canadian poet and author, Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which this year is first produced in Stratford, Ontario; it will appear in...

    : Maurice Shadbolt
    Maurice Shadbolt
    Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt CBE was a New Zealand writer and playwright. He was born in Auckland, and educated at Te Kuiti High School, Avondale College and Auckland University College...

    , Strangers and Journeys
  • 1972
    1972 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate...

    : Gil Docking, 200 Years of New Zealand Painting
  • 1971
    1971 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* This Magazine founded by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten...

    : Rosemary Rolleston, William & Mary Rolleston
  • 1970
    1970 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* May – "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to recite before an audience of more than 2,000 in the Théâtre du Gesu, lasting until 7...

    : John Dunmore
    John Dunmore
    John Dunmore CMNZ is a prominent New Zealand academic, historian, author, playwright, and publisher.Dunmore was born in Trouville-sur-Mer, France, lived in Jersey under German Occupation during World War II, and then in England, where he received a BA from the University of London. He emigrated to...

    , Fateful Voyage of the St Jean Baptiste
  • 1969
    1969 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* FIELD magazine founded at Oberlin College...

    : A. Murray-Oliver, Augustus Earle in New Zealand
  • 1968
    1968 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Belfast Group, a grouping of poets in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which was started in 1963 in poetry, lapsed in 1966 when founder Philip Hobsbaum left for Glasgow, is reconstituted this year by...

    : John Morton
    John Morton (writer)
    John Morton is a British writer and director for television and radio, perhaps best known as the creator of People Like Us, which starred Chris Langham. which starred Chris Langham as the series as the hapless documentary maker Roy Mallard...

     & M. Miller, The New Zealand Sea Shore

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