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Miriam Barr
Miriam Barr is a New Zealand page and performance poet. She is one of the original members of The Literatti, an Auckland-based performance poetry group started in 2006. Barr became creative director for the group in 2007. Her poetry has appeared in Landfall, Black Mail Press, Tongue in Your Ear, JAAM, De-Formed Paper, Enamel, Live Lines, Debate, The Wild Goose Poetry Review, Magazine, Brief, Takahe, and Poetry New Zealand (now Poetry NZ Yearbook). She has self-published two volumes of poetry, ''Tangents'', 2006 (now out of print) and ''Observations from the Poetry Factory'', 2007. Both of these books were released with CDs of Barr's poetry set to music. Her collection, ''Bullet Hole Riddle'' was published by Steele Roberts Aotearoa in 2014. In 2007 Barr created the free, independent poetry zine, Side Stream, which was distributed by a network of poets from around the world until its demise in 2011. Barr has been one of the coordinators of Poetry Live since 2006. Poetry Live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |