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Leigh Davis
Leigh Robert Davis (20 June 1955 – 3 October 2009) was a New Zealand writer who created long poems and large-scale, mixed-media projects in which he worked with painters, designers and composers. He was known for the highly experimental nature of his creative work. Life Davis was born in Raetihi. He completed an M.A. Honours degree in English at Auckland University (including a thesis on the poetry of Allen Curnow), then studied Commerce subjects towards an M.B.A. at Victoria University of Wellington. In 1980 he married Susan Unwin whom he had met as a fellow student and they had four children together. Davis worked for several years as a analyst for the New Zealand Treasury, then in 1985 joined the merchant bank of Michael Fay and David Richwhite. He became a principal of their company in 1993, before forming his own venture, Jump Capital, a private equity fund, in 1999. He was active as a patron of the arts, becoming a Trustee of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raetihi
Raetihi, a small town in the center of New Zealand's North Island, is located at the junction of State Highways 4 and 49 in the Manawatū-Whanganui region. It lies in a valley between Tongariro and Whanganui National Parks, 11 kilometres west of Ohakune's ski fields. Early history and economy Evidence of Māori people living here in the fourteenth century has been found. Ngāti Uenuku dwelled at Raetihi and Waimarino (known now as National Park, located approximately 35 kilometers/22 miles north on Highway 4). There is little evidence of large permanent settlements but hunting parties were common during warmer months. In 1887 the Government purchased the Waimarino block from local Māori, and the first European settlement, at Karioi, involved setting sheep to graze on open tussock land. Between 1908 and 1947 the area provided 700 million superficial feet of building timber. The remnants of 150 sawmills have been discovered, and the milling of rimu, tōtara, kahikatea, māt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New North Road, New Zealand
New North Road is a street in the central and western Auckland isthmus, New Zealand, connecting Upper Symonds Street in Eden Terrace to Avondale. The road runs parallel to Great North Road, located to the north, and crosses Dominion Road, the Western Line at Morningside and runs above the Waterview Tunnel section of the Southwestern Motorway at Mount Albert, New Zealand, Mount Albert. History The modern road began life as a rough track in the 1850s, known as the Whau Road. In December 1853, a survey was commissioned to build the route, however by January 1854 the proposed route was scrapped, due to opponents of the scheme highlighting that the allocated funds for the programme could only be spent on road construction, when land also needed to be purchased from early Mount Albert, New Zealand, Mount Albert landowners Allan Kerr Taylor and George Bray. By 1855, Auckland settlers petitioned the Auckland Province, Auckland Provincial Council for funding, as many properties ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Births
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New Zealand Male Poets
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21st-century New Zealand Poets
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Kathleen Grattan Award
The Kathleen Grattan Award is one of New Zealand's top poetry awards. It is named after Kathleen Grattan, an Auckland poet, who died in 1990. The award was first made in 2008. History The Kathleen Grattan Award is a prestigious poetry prize for an original collection of poems or a long poem by a New Zealand or Pacific resident or citizen. It is named after Kathleen Grattan, an Auckland poet, journalist and former editor of the ''New Zealand Woman's Weekly''. Her work was published in ''Landfall'' and elsewhere, including ''Premier Poets'', a collection from the World Poetry Society. She was a member of the Titirangi Poets. Kathleen Grattan died in 1990 and her daughter Jocelyn Grattan, who died in 2005, left ''Landfall'' a bequest with which to establish an award in her mother's name. She also left another bequest to fund the Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems. The inaugural award was made in 2008 and for some years it was given annually, but is now biennial. Eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sturrock (writer)
John Anning Leng Sturrock (14 June 1930 – 15 August 2017) was an English writer, editor, reviewer and translator who was closely associated with the ''Times Literary Supplement'' and later the ''London Review of Books''. He was the son of the politician John Leng Sturrock John Leng Sturrock (23 August 1878 – 22 July 1943) was a Scottish newspaper publisher and Liberal politician. Family and education John Leng Sturrock was born in Newport-on-Tay, Fife. He was educated at the High School of Dundee and at Univ .... Selected publications Author * ''French New Novel: Claude Simon, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1969. ISBN 9780192121783 * ''Paper Tigers: Ideal Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977. ISBN 0198157460 * ''The French Pyrenees''. Faber, London, 1988. ISBN 0571137415 * ''The Language of Autobiography: Studies in the first person singular''. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993. ISBN 052 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mammon
Mammon in the New Testament of the Bible is commonly thought to mean money, material wealth, or any entity that promises wealth, and is associated with the greedy pursuit of gain. The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke both quote Jesus using the word in a phrase often rendered in English as "You cannot serve both God and mammon." In the Middle Ages, it was often personified and sometimes included in the seven princes of Hell. ''Mammon'' in Hebrew (ממון) means "money". The word was adopted to modern Hebrew to mean wealth. Etymology The word ''Mammon'' comes into English from post-classical Latin ''mammona'' "wealth", used most importantly in the Vulgate Bible (along with Tertullian's ''mammonas'' and pseudo-Jerome's ''mammon''). This was in turn borrowed from Hellenistic Greek μαμωνᾶς, which appears in the New Testament, borrowed from Aramaic מָמוֹנָא ''māmōnā'', an emphatic form of the word ''māmōn'' "wealth, profit", perhaps specifically from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Sharp
Iain Sharp (born 1953 in Glasgow) is a New Zealand poet and critic. Sharp emigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1961, where they settled in Auckland. He studied at Auckland University where he received a doctorate in English in 1982. His doctoral thesis was titled ''Wit at several weapons: a critical edition''. Soon after completing his PhD he qualified as a librarian from the New Zealand Library School. He currently works part-time in the Special Collections Department of Auckland Central City Library, and is also a reviewer, critic and columnist for the '' New Zealand Listener'' magazine.'' The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (1998)Sharp, Iainat New Zealand Book Council Works * ''Why Mammals Shiver'', Auckland: One Eyed Press, 1981 * ''She Is Trying to Kidnap the Blind Person'', Auckland: Hard Echo Press, 1985 * ''The Pierrot Variations'', Auckland: Hard Echo Press, 1985 * ''Two Poets: Selections from the Work of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otago University Press
Otago University Press is an academic publisher associated with the University of Otago. The press is located in Dunedin, New Zealand. The Otago University Press is the oldest academic publisher in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Otago University Press publishes non-fiction and poetry and is also the publisher of the literary journal Landfall Landfall is the event of a storm moving over land after being over water. More broadly, and in relation to human travel, it refers to 'the first land that is reached or seen at the end of a journey across the sea or through the air, or the fact .... Otago University Press has published award-winning books, including ''Tumble'' by Joannna Preston, winner of the 2022 Ockham Award for Poetry. References University of Otago Academic publishing companies Book publishing companies of New Zealand University presses of New Zealand {{NewZealand-university-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Perloff
Marjorie Perloff (born September 28, 1931) is an Austrian-born poetry scholar and critic in the United States. Early life Perloff was born Gabriele Mintz into a secularized Jewish family in Vienna. The annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany exacerbated Viennese anti-Semitism, and so the family emigrated in 1938, when she was six-and-a-half, going first to Zürich and then to the United States, settling in Riverdale, New York. After attending Oberlin College from 1949 to 1952, she graduated ''magna cum laude'' and Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College in 1953; that year, she married Joseph K. Perloff, a cardiologist focused on congenital heart disease. She completed her graduate work at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., earning an M.A. in 1956 and a Ph.D (with a dissertation on W.B. Yeats) in 1965. Career Perloff taught at Catholic University from 1966 to 1971. She then moved on to become Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park (1971 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Nicholas Of Tolentino
Nicholas of Tolentino ( la, S. Nicolaus de Tolentino, (c. 1246September 10, 1305), known as the ''Patron of Holy Souls'', was an Italian saint and mystic. He is particularly invoked as an advocate for the souls in Purgatory, especially during Lent and the month of November. In many Augustinian churches, there are weekly devotions to St. Nicholas on behalf of the suffering souls. November 2, All Souls' Day, holds special significance for the devotees of St. Nicholas of Tolentino. Life Born in 1245 in Sant'Angelo in Pontano, St. Nicholas of Tolentino took his name from St. Nicholas of Myra, at whose shrine his parents prayed to have a child. Nicholas became a friar at 18, and seven years later, he was ordained a priest. He gained a reputation as a preacher and a confessor. C. 1274, he was sent to Tolentino, near his birthplace. The town suffered from civil strife between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, in their struggle for control of Italy. Nicholas was primarily a pastor to his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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