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New Zealand Book Award For Poetry
The Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry is an award at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, presented annually to the winner of the poetry category. The winner receives a 10,000 prize. History The New Zealand Book Awards were set up by the New Zealand Literary Fund, a government organisation, in 1976. Annual awards were presented for literary merit in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and (later) book production. The Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, New Zealand's other principal literary awards event, did not specifically award poetry prizes until 1994, when sponsorship was taken over by Montana Wines and the event's name was changed to the Montana Book Awards. In 1994 and 1995, the Montana Book Awards included a category for poetry. In 1996, the two awards events were merged to create the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and offering prizes in six categories, including poetry. In 2010, the New Zealand Post took over as sponsor, having supported the New Zealand Book Awards for Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, which ran from 1968 to 1995 (known as the Montana Book Awards from 1994 to 1995). The awards have changed name several times depending on sponsorship. From 1996 to 2009, the awards were known as the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and sponsored by Montana Wines. From 2010 until 2014, the awards were known as the New Zealand Post Book Awards. Since 2015, the main sponsors have been property developer Ockham Residential, the Acorn Foundation, Creative New Zealand, Mary and Peter Biggs, Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand and biotech company MitoQ. The awards event is the opening event of the Auckland Writers Festival, held annually in May. History and format Before 1996 there were two major New Zealand literary awards eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhian Gallagher
Rhian Gallagher (born 1961) is a poet from New Zealand. Background Gallagher was born in 1961 in Timaru, New Zealand. She currently lives in Dunedin. Career Between 1995 and 2005, Gallagher worked in publishing in London before returning to New Zealand. Her first poetry collection, ''Salt Water Creek'', was published in 2003. In 2012, she published her second collection, ''Shift''. Poetry by Gallagher has been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies including '' Best New Zealand Poems'', ''121 New Zealand Poems'', ''The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand Landscape,'' and ''The Best of the Best New Zealand Poems''. In 2010 the South Canterbury Museum published her non-fiction biography of mountaineer Jack Adamson entitled ''Feeling for Daylight: The Photographs of Jack Adamson.'' Gallagher collaborated with artist Lynn Taylor and printer Sarah Smith to create the artist book ''Freda Du Faur, Southern Alps 1909-1913,'' celebrating the life and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hone Tuwhare
Honing (metalworking), Honing is a kind of metalworking. Hone may also refer to: * Hone (name) (incl. Hōne), a list of people with the surname, given name or nickname * Hõne language, spoken in Gombe State and Taraba State, Nigeria * Hône, Italy {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 16 — Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem " The Corrupt on Earth" which criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary, accusing some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit. * August 22 — Poet Ron Silliman starts his popular and controversial weblog Silliman's Blog' which will become one of the most popular blogs devoted largely to contemporary poetry and poetics. (By August 2006, the blog will reach a total of 800,000 hits and get its next 100,000 by early November.). * September — Amiri Baraka (b. 1934), an African-American poet and political activist from Newark, New Jersey who was appointed the second Poet Laureate of New Jersey, ignites a controversy and accusations of anti-Semitism with a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Colquhoun
Dr. Glenn Colquhoun (born 1964) is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner. Life Colquhoun was born in Papakura, Auckland, and practices medicine on the Kapiti Coast. He lives in Waikawa Beach with his young daughter Olive. Colquhoun's first book of poems, ''The Art of Walking Upright'', was published in 1999. It has been said the book is a love letter to the people of Te Tii, the Northland town where he was living at that time. ''An Explanation of Poetry to My Father'' was published and written in 2001. Written in the middle of his work on ''Playing God'', the book was a distraction for Colquhoun from that work. The poems are an explanation of why the son of a builder would go and write poetry. ''Playing God'', Colquhuoun’s third book, was published in 2002 to critical acclaim and popular support. It has sold over 10,000 copies in New Zealand and in 2007 was published in the UK. ''How We Fell'' (2006) is a collection of love poems written to Colquhoun’s ex-wife. It i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 29 – Poet Dana Gioia, who had retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full-time, becomes chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States government's arts agency. * February 12 – After First Lady Laura Bush invites a number of poets to the White House for this date, one of them, Sam Hamill, starts organizing a protest in which poets would bring anti-war poems. The conference is postponed, but Hamill organizes a "Poets Against the War" Web site with contributions from others. More than 5,000 poems are contributed, including work by John Balaban, Gregory Orr, Rita Dove, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Marilyn Nelson, Jay Parini, Jamaica Kincaid, Grace Paley and U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Also on the Web site, W. S. Merwin contributes the statement: "To a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 In Poetry
This article presents lists of historical events related to the writing of poetry during 2004. The historical context of events related to the writing of poetry in 2004 are addressed in articles such as ''History of Poetry'' Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April 1 — Foetry.com Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests. Tracking the sycophants. Naming names." Members and visitors contribute information which links judges and prize winners in various poetry contests in attempts to document whether some contests have been rigged. * February 16 — Edwin Morgan becomes Scotland's first ever official national poet, The Scots Makar, appointed by the Scottish Parliament. * Jang Jin-sung defects from North Korea. * Publication of remaining fragments of Sappho's Tithonus poem (6th/7th cent. BCE). * ''Samizdat'' poetry magazine, founded in 1998, cease ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 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. The British event, ''Howl for Now'', was accompanied by a book of essays of the same name, edited by Simon Warner, reflecting on the piece's enduring power and influence. * Maurice Riordan, Irish poet living in London, named poetry editor of ''Poetry London'' Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published (and again by the poet's native land, if different); substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * David Brooks, ''Walking to Point Clear''. Blackheath: Brandl & Schlesinger * Pam Brown, Ken Bolton, and Laurie Duggan, ''Let's Get Lost'', Sydney: Vagabond * Laurie Duggan, ''Compared to What: Selected Poems 1971–2003'', Exeter: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Manhire
William Manhire (born 27 December 1946) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, emeritus professor, and New Zealand's inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate, Poet Laureate (1997–1998). He founded New Zealand's first creative writing course at Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, founded the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2001, and has been a strong promoter of New Zealand literature and poetry throughout his career. Many of New Zealand's leading writers graduated from his courses at Victoria. He has received many notable awards including a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in 2007 and an Arts Foundation of New Zealand#Icon Award, Arts Foundation Icon Award in 2018. The ''Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'' (2006) states that he is "recognised as among the two or three finest New Zealand poets of his generation", and literary critic Peter Simpson (writer), Peter Simpson has observed that Manhire has "probably done more to widen the audi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vintage Books
Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was purchased by Random House in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990. After Random House merged with Bantam Doubleday Dell, Doubleday's Anchor Books trade paperback line was added to the same division as Vintage. Following Random House's merger with Penguin, Vintage was transferred to Penguin UK. In addition to publishing classic and contemporary works in paperback under the Vintage brand, the imprint also oversees the sub-imprints Bodley Head, Jonathan Cape, Chatto and Windus, Harvill Secker, Hogarth Press, Square Peg, and Yellow Jersey. Vintage began publishing some titles in the mass-market paperback format in 2003. Notable authors * William Faulkner * Vladimir Nabokov * Cormac McCarthy * Albert Camus * Ralph Ellison * Dashiell Hammett * William Styron * Philip Roth * Toni Morrison * Dave Eggers * Robert Caro * Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Frame
Janet Paterson Frame (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand,The Order of New Zealand Honours List New Zealand's highest civil honour. Frame's celebrity derived from her dramatic personal history as well as her literary career. Following years of psychiatric hospitalisation, Frame was scheduled for a that was cancelled when, just days before the procedure, her debut publication of short stories was unexpectedly awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Charman
Janet Charman (born 1954) is a poet from New Zealand. Background Born in 1954, Charman grew up in the Hutt Valley and Taranaki. Charman initially trained as a nurse and worked in social welfare. After receiving an MA in English from the University of Auckland she worked as a tutor in the university's English department. In 1997 was named as a writer in residence and received a Literary Fellowship. She also received a fellowship from the Hong Kong Baptist University. Charman continues to teach writing classes and is based in Auckland. Works Charman's poems are often set in the suburbs of New Zealand and draw on issues that relate specifically to women, including topics such as sexuality, victimisation, and motherhood. She is known for her stylistic choices such as using limited punctuation and capitalisation, including lowercase for the pronoun 'I'. Collections of poetry published by Charman include: * ''Drawing Together'' (1985, Spiral), with Marina Bachmann and Sue Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
