by Mark Pirie
Marilyn Duckworth is a Wellington writer. Her fi fteenth novel, Playing Friends, came out in 2007. She has published one poetry collection, Other Lovers’ Children.
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David Eggleton lives in Dunedin. He is a poet and writer whose articles, reviews and essays appear on a regular basis in a variety of publications. He has published a number of books of fi ction and non-fi ction, and his most recent collection of poetry is Fast Talker, released by AUP in 2006.
Chris Else’s sixth novel Gith was published in 2008. He lives in Wellington and runs two websites, http://www.elseware.co.nz and http://www.ventiak.com.
Another Internet project is in the making.
Andrew Fagan is a New Zealand poet, singer, songwriter and sailor. His books include four slim volumes of poetry, the latest being Overnight Downpour (HeadworX, 2006) and the autobiography/sailing memoir Swirly World (HarperCollins, 2001). More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Andrew_Fagan
A.R.D. Fairburn (1904-1957) worked as a journalist, script-writer, union secretary, and tutor in the English Department at the University of Auckland.
A notable painter and fabric designer, he taught at the Elam School of Fine Arts for the last 11 years of his life. His Collected Poems was published posthumously in 1966 by Pegasus Press, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Cliff Fell lives near Motueka, in the South Island. Beauty of the Badlands (VUP, 2008) is his second collection of poems. More information: http://www.
bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/fellcliff.html
Gary Forrester lives in Wellington. He is the author of two novels, a book of poetry, and many academic articles. His website is http://www.garyforrester.com Janis Freegard is one of three poets featured in AUP New Poets 3 (AUP, 2008).
Her poetry and fi ction have appeared in Landfall, JAAM, Poetry NZ, The North and elsewhere. She shares her Wellington home with an historian, a cat, several weta and various infl atable baby aliens. Her blog is at http://janisfreegard.
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Robin Fry, born in 1932 in Palmerston North, comes from a background of theatre, broadcasting and journalism. She is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London). Author of three poetry collections, Weather Report (Inkweed, 2001), Daymoon (HeadworX, 2005) and Inside It (ESAW, 2006), Robin Fry won the open section of the NZ Poetry Society’s International Competition in 2001 and in 2008.
Ruth Gilbert lives in Motueka. She received an award of Offi cer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002 for services to poetry. Her collection The Sunlit Hour (1955) has been recently reprinted along with a new selection of her poems, Selected Poems, 1941–1998 through Original Books, Wellington.
David Gregory is a Christchurch-based poet and environmental planner. He is an editor for Sudden Valley Press and a member of the Canterbury Poets Collective. He is the co-editor, with Coral Atkinson, of Land Very Fertile: Banks Peninsula poetry and prose (Canterbury University Press, 2008).
Nic Hill is a New Zealand writer. This is his fi rst published poem.
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Kevin Ireland was born in Mt Albert, Auckland, and now lives in Devonport.
His 17th book of poems, How to Survive the Morning, and his fi fth novel, The Jigsaw Chronicles, were published in 2008. Among his other publications are two memoirs, a volume of short stories, a booklet On Getting Old and a discursive book on fi shing, How to Catch a Fish.
Rob Jackaman, born in England, won a Commonwealth Scholarship to study in Auckland and subsequently remained in New Zealand, where he has been a lecturer and creative writing course convenor. He is a widely published poet.
Anna Jackson has published four solo collections of poetry, the most recent being The Gas Leak (AUP, 2006), and also Locating the Madonna (Seraph Press, 2004), a collaboration with Jenny Powell. She lectures in the Department of English at Victoria University of Wellington.
Louis Johnson (1924-88) was one of New Zealand’s most widely admired poets and editors. A journalist, editor and teacher, Johnson founded the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook (1951-64) and was a prolifi c poet. After spending much of the ‘70s in Australia, Johnson returned to Wellington in 1980. His Selected Poems, edited by Terry Sturm, was published posthumously in 2000.
Tim Jones is a poet, short story writer and novelist. His most recent books are the short story collection Transported (Vintage, 2008), which was long-listed for the 2008 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the poetry collection All Blacks’ Kitchen Gardens (HeadworX, 2007); and the fantasy novel Anarya’s Secret (RedBrick, 2007). More information: http://timjonesbooks.
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David Kārena-Holmes is a Dunedin poet and linguist. His poetry includes the long poem From the Antipodes, an extract of which was published by Maungatua Press in 2002, with a new edition in 2003.
Phil Kawana, Ngāruahine, Ngāti Ruanui and Ngāti Kahungunu, lives in Wellington, New Zealand. He has had poems published widely in anthologies and journals. He has published several books of poetry and fi ction, including Dead Jazz Guys and Attack of the Skunk People (Huia Publishers, 1996 and 1999
respectively) and Devil in my Shoes (AUP, 2005).
Fiona Kidman (DCNZM), born in 1940, is best known for her novels, which include A Breed of Women and The Book of Secrets. Kidman has also written plays and poetry. Her selected poems, Wakeful Nights, was published in 1991. More recently she has edited New Zealand Love Stories for OUP and Best New Zealand Fiction for Vintage. A memoir, At the End of Darwin Road, was published in 2008.
Hilaire Kirkland (1941-1975) was a New Zealand poet. Her collection Blood Clear and Apple Red was published by Wai-te-ata Press, Wellington, in 1981.
Katherine Liddy recently published one-third of AUP New Poets 3 and is now working on ‘A Bee on His Lips’, a series of poems set in ancient Greece. She lives and writes in Vancouver, Canada. Her blog: http://katherineliddy.blogspot.com Rachel McAlpine is a poet, blogger, novelist, playwright and adviser on writing content for web sites. Her Selected Poems appeared from Mallinson Rendel 159
in 1988, and her most recent novel is Humming (Hazard Press, 2005). More information: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/mcalpiner.html, and http://
www.writing.co.nz/
Tracie McBride is a New Zealander who lives in Melbourne with her family.
Her work has appeared in over 40 publications, including Pulp.Net, JAAM, Abyss and Apex, Space & Time, Sniplits and Electric Velocipede. She won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best New Talent for 2007.
Seán McMahon is a New Zealand poet and author of several experimental chapbooks. His work has been published in JAAM and other journals.
Harvey McQueen has published six volumes of poetry. The latest, published by HeadworX, are Pingandy (1999) and Recessional (2004). Born in Little River, he grew up on Banks Peninsula, and worked in education until his retirement in 2002. He is well-known as an anthologist and was co-editor of the Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse. His latest is a selection of garden poems.
Owen Marshall has written or edited 23 books, including a collection of poetry.
He received the ONZM for services to literature, and an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Canterbury, where he is an adjunct professor. He has a particular affi nity for rural and provincial life. More information: http://
www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/marshallo.html
Jane Matheson is a guitarist, songwriter and poet. Her last performance was at The Adelaide, Wellington in 2007. Her recorded works to date are To Aotearoa with Love (solo debut album, 2003) and Peace Wish (a short poetry-play, 1998).
She is currently working on a collection of new songs and can be contacted at [email protected]
Thomas Mitchell is an Auckland-based writer. His book reviews, poetry and short stories have appeared in publications such as Trout, JAAM, Evasion, the
Dominion Post and se
veral editions of New Zealand Short Short Stories. This is his fi rst published science fi ction.
Harvey Molloy lives in Wellington where he teaches at Newlands College. His poems have appeared in Albatross, Blackmail Press, Bravado, JAAM, New Zealand Listener, Poetry NZ, Southern Ocean Review and Takahe. His fi rst book of poems is Moonshot (Steele Roberts, 2008). More information: http://harveymolloy.
blogspot.com
Michael Morrissey has published 19 books – 10 books of poetry, four of fi ction and edited fi ve anthologies of poetry and prose. He was the fi rst writer-in-residence at the University of Canterbury in 1979 and the fi rst New Zealand writer to participate in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Programme. He has been writing a book review column for Investigate magazine for ten years during which time he has reviewed some 500 books.
James Norcliffe has published six collections of poetry, most recently Along Blueskin Road (Canterbury University Press, 2005) and Villon in Millerton (AUP, 2007). He has also published six novels for younger people, most recently The Assassin of Gleam (winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award) and The Loblolly Boy (Longacre), and a collection of short stories, The Chinese Interpreter.
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Michael O’Leary is a poet, novelist, artist, performer and bookshop/art gallery proprietor. O’Leary’s career as a literary publisher covers twenty years. He has worked under two main imprints: The Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop (ESAW) and Miracle Mart Receiving. Web address: http://www.earlofseacliff.co.nz. His novels include Unlevel Crossings, Out of It and Straight. His poetry is collected in three volumes from HeadworX: Toku Tinihanga: Selected Poems 1982-2002, Make Love and War and Paneta Street.
Stephen Oliver’s latest collection of poetry is Harmonic (Interactive Publications, 2008): see http://ipoz.biz/Titles/HAR.htm. IP also released the King Hit CD – poems written and read by Oliver to music composed by Matt Ottley – in 2007.
Jacqueline Crompton Ottaway has had poetry, stories, articles and books published in New Zealand and overseas. She belongs to several poetry and writing groups and enjoys sharing her work with friends and colleagues.
Jacqueline is often surprised how memories, dreams and refl ections are echoed in her poems.
Alistair Paterson (ONZM) is a poet, editor, anthologist, fi ction writer and critic. In addition to his own work, such as his recent collections Summer on the Côte d’Azur (HeadworX, 2003), and the long poem Africa (Puriri Press, 2008), he has made a notable contribution to New Zealand poetry as editor of Climate and Poetry NZ (http://www.poetrynz.net/). More information: http://www.
bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/patersona.html
Jack Perkins runs the Spectrum radio documentary unit in Radio New Zealand, and is also a cricketer, writer and blogger. A collection of his cricket blogs, Not Out! No Ball! Over! , has just been published.
Chris Pigott has been published in various New Zealand anthologies and journals, such as The NeXt Wave, Sport, and JAAM. He is currently living in Thailand.
Mark Pirie is a Wellingon writer and the publisher for HeadworX (http://
headworx.eyesis.co.nz). He initiated, co-founded and edited JAAM magazine (1995-2005) and currently edits broadsheet: new new zealand poetry. His books include Gallery (poetry, Salt Publishing, UK) and the anthology, The NeXt Wave (University of Otago Press). More information: http://www.bookcouncil.org.
nz/writers/piriemark.html
Vivienne Plumb is an award-winning playwright, poet and fi ction writer. She has held the NZ Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Her new play, The Wife Who Spoke Japanese In Her Sleep, will premiere at the 2009 Auckland Festival.
More information: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/plumbviv.html Jenny Powell is a Dunedin writer who has published three individual and two collaborative collections of poems. Her next collection, Viet Nam: a poem journey is to be published by HeadworX.
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Born in New Zealand, Cath Randle had her fi rst poem published at 18 and fi rst science fi ction short story at 28. An English émigré, she gained an MA in Creative and Critical Writing at Winchester University in 2008. She lives in Hampshire with her family. For more information: http://twitter.com/
CathodeRandle
Trevor Reeves lives and writes in Dunedin. Former publisher and editor of Southern Ocean Review, writer of eight books including short stories, poetry, non-fi ction including books on dams, crime, etc. His work has been published worldwide: poems, short stories, reviews, non-fi ction etc. More information: http://www.book.co.nz
Helen Rickerby’s most recent book of poetry, My Iron Spine, was published in 2008 by HeadworX. She is co-managing editor of JAAM literary magazine, and runs the small publishing company, Seraph Press. She can often be found at http://wingedink.blogspot.com
Anna Rugis is a former backup singer for Van Morrison, Cat Stevens, The Kinks, Cliff Richard and others. Her CDs include Reconciliation, Cave Songs, and Traffi c in Gold. She also writes musicals for schools on environmental themes, including Island Dreams, Home Free, and River Songs. More information: http://
www.myspace.com/annarugis
Bill Sewell (1951-2003) was a New Zealand poet, editor, anthologist and reviewer, whose collections include Solo Flight (University of Otago Press, 1982), Erebus (Hazard Press, 1999), and The Ballad of Fifty-one (HeadworX, 2003). He was posthumously awarded the inaugural Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry in 2003. More information: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/
writers/sewellbill.html
Iain Sharp was born, like Fahrenheit 451, in the year 1953, but in defi ance of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian vision he has spent much of his working life as a librarian. He is the author of four volumes of poetry. His most recent publication is an illustrated biography of Nineteenth-Century artist and explorer Charles Heaphy.
Meliors Simms is a Canadian-born, New Zealand-raised, well travelled sci-fi reader. Gripped by a mid-life fever of creativity that doggedly distracts her from taking gainful employment seriously, if she’s not busy writing she’s busy making things (like books). Her peripatetic, literary and artistic pursuits are documented in Bibliophilia, the blog she’s proud to have been posting since 2005: http://www.meliors.net/
Robert Sullivan, Ngā Puhi, is a poet, editor, anthologist, librarian and creative writing teacher. He was a co-editor of Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English (AUP, 2003), the fi rst anthology of contemporary indigenous Polynesian poetry in English edited by Polynesians. His poetry collections include Star Waka (1999) and Captain Cook in the Underworld (2002). More information: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/sullivanrobert.html 162
Brian Turner is an Otago poet, essayist and biographer whose works include the biography of Colin Meads, Meads (Hodder Moa Beckett, 2006); poetry collections including Footfall (Godwit, 2005), arising from his tenure as the Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate; and Into the Wider World: A back country miscellany (Godwit, 2008), a collection of essays, columns, articles and poetry. More information: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/turnerbrian.html Tze Ming Mok is a poet, fi ction writer and essayist whose work has been published in Landfall, Sport, Poetry NZ, Meanjin, JAAM and New Zealand Listener.
Her poem ‘An Arabic Poetry Lesson in Jakarta’ was selected as one of the Best New Zealand Poems 2004. More information: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/
writers/moktzeming.html
Richard von Sturmer is an Auckland writer and fi lmmaker. His most recent book, Suchness: Zen Poetry and Prose, was published by HeadworX in 2005.
As far as Science Fiction goes, he is a fan of Stanislaw Lem and Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. For more, see http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/
vonsturmerrichard.html
Nelson Wattie is a Wellington poet, book reviewer and translator. He is co-editor of the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, with Roger Robinson.
Mike Webber’s poetry is performance and comedy oriented. And sci-fi has always (since he began reading!) been one of his loves, the others being music, d
oing sport, driving, nature, women, love and sex! Known as ‘Mike Tights’
(after his poetry uniform) he has been writing and performing poetry for 20+
years.
Simon Williamson (1968-1999) was born in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand.
Published in literary magazines like JAAM and Takahe, he sang in the folk bands, The Flat Earthers and Between Earth and Sky. His posthumous book, Storyteller: Poems 1988-1999 (HeadworX, 2002), was widely acclaimed and his poems continue to fi nd publication in anthologies and journals.
Sue Wootton is a Dunedin poet and short fi ction writer. Her published poetry collections are Hourglass (Steele Roberts, 2005) and Magnetic South (Steele Roberts, 2008). She has won prizes and commendations in various competitions, including a place in the 2008 NZ Book Month Six Pack 3
competition with her short story ‘Virtuoso’. She was the 2008 Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University in 2008, and was a fi nalist in the 2008 Sunday Star Times short story competition with a tale called ‘Beyond Pluto’. More information: http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/woottonsue.html 163
Index of Poems (by Poet)
Fleur Adcock, from Gas
Fleur Adcock, Last Song
Raewyn Alexander, in the future when we grow new brains
Puri Alvarez, Saturn’s Rings
Jenny Argante, Space Age Lover
Tony Beyer, Kron
Peter Bland, An Old Man and Science Fiction
Iain Britton, Departing Takaparawha
Alan Brunton, F/S
Alan Brunton, Vis Imaginitiva
Dana Bryce, Dreams of Alien Love
Rachel Bush, Voyagers
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Looking at Kapiti
Meg Campbell, The End of the World
Gordon Challis, The Thermostatic Man
Janet Charman, in your dreams
