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Sarah Broom Poetry Prize
The Sarah Broom Poetry Prize is one of New Zealand's most valuable poetry prizes. It was established to celebrate the life and work of New Zealand poet Sarah Broom. The prize was first awarded in 2014. History The Sarah Broom Poetry Prize was established to honour the life and work of Sarah Broom (1972–2013). Sarah Broom was a poet, Oxford graduate, university lecturer and mother of three children. She was the author of ''Tigers at Awhitu'' (Carcanet and AUP, 2010) and ''Gleam'' (AUP, 2013). The prize was established by her husband, Michael Gleissner, and friends to remember her love of poetry, zest for life and spirit of imagination and determination and as a celebration of poetry in New Zealand. In its first year, the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize attracted 300 entries. The winner was announced at the Auckland Writers Festival on 18 May 2014 and the prize was awarded to C K Stead (by video, in his absence) by guest judge Sam Hunt. The winning poems were described as "enormous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Le Bas
Jessica Le Bas is a Nelson-based poet from New Zealand. Background Le Bas received her MA(Hons) from the University of Auckland. Career During the Balkan Wars, Le Bas worked for the United Nations as a Training Consultant for UNPROFOR. She has worked at the Beehive in Wellington as Private Secretary to a government Minister. She took Owen Marshall’s Fiction Writing Course at Aoraki Polytechnic in 1997, and later received a writers' grant from Creative New Zealand. Le Bas has published two collections of poetry, ''Incognito'' in 2007, and ''Walking to Africa'' in 2009. In 2010, she published her first children's book, ''Staying Home: My True Diary of Survival'', under the pseudonym ‘Jesse O’. In 2021 the novel was re-released by Penguin Books New Zealand as ''Locked Down'', and was illustrated by Toby Morris. Le Bas and her novel featured at the 2021 Auckland Writers' Festival as part of the Schools' Programme. Poems by Le Bas have appeared in ''Landfall'', ''Poetry ... [...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] |
Sarah Broom
Sarah Broom (1972–2013) was a New Zealand poet, Oxford graduate, university lecturer and mother of three children. Her work included two books of poetry, ''Tigers at Awhitu'' (published jointly in England and New Zealand) and ''Gleam.'' After her early death from lung cancer, the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize, was established to remember and celebrate her life and work. Biography Sarah Kathryn Broom was born in 1972 in Dunedin. She grew up in Christchurch and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and psychology from the University of Canterbury. She then completed an MA in English Literature at Leeds and DPhil at Oxford University, studying contemporary British and Irish poetry. She lectured at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1999, in Oxford, she married Michael Gleissner whom she had first met on a Lions Club scholarship to Japan. They returned to New Zealand in 2000. She took up a post-doctoral fellowship at Massey University in Albany and then lectured in English at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland Writers Festival
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki is the largest annual literary festival in Aotearoa New Zealand since 1999. It has about 200 public events each year featuring local and international writers as guests. History and staff The inaugural festival was in May 1999. Founding trustees were writers Stephanie Johnson and the late Peter Wells (1950–2019). Since 2008 the festival has been a registered charitable trust under the name Auckland Writers & Readers Festival Charitable Trust. The trusts purpose is that it celebrates the work of writers, promotes literacy, a positive public profile for New Zealand writers, ideas and intellectual debate, literature which supports and reflects the partnership ideal of the Treaty of Waitangi, and encourages international understanding. By 2018 it was being described as the 'largest literary showcase in New Zealand'. Anne O'Brien joined the festival in 2011 as director. In 2012 there were four core members and the General Manager was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Hunt (poet)
Samuel Percival Maitland Hunt (born 4 July 1946, Castor Bay, Auckland) is a New Zealand poet, especially known for his public performances of poetry, not only his own poems, but also the poems of many other poets. He has been referred to as New Zealand's best-known poet. Background Hunt's father, a barrister, was sixty when Hunt was born (his mother was 30). Hunt grew up at Castor Bay on the North Shore of Auckland. He became interested in poetry because of his mother. Hunt loved his unconventional parents and " ... early poems featuring his father remain amongst his best".Paul Miller, "Sam Hunt", in Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (eds), ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1998, pp. 249 and 250. Hunt has an older brother, Jonathan, and they have an older half-brother, Alexander Hunt. Education Hunt was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland which he attended from 1958 to 1963. At St Peter's Hunt chafed under the Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Neale
Emma Neale (born 2 January 1969) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand. Background Neale was born in Dunedin and grew up in Christchurch, San Diego, and Wellington. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria University of Wellington and was awarded an MA and PhD from University College London. Following her graduation she returned to New Zealand to work for Longacre Press, working for ten years as editor then senior editor. Works Neale's first work was published in 1998 and her writing has been featured extensively in magazines, newspapers and journals, and several anthologies. Novels * ''Night Swimming'' (Penguin Random House, 1998) * ''Little Moon'' (Random House, 2001) * ''Double Take'' (Random House, 2003) * ''Relative Strangers'' (Vintage, 2006) * ''Fosterling'' (Vintage, 2011) * ''Billy Bird'' (Penguin Random House, 2016) Poetry * ''Sleeve-Notes'' (Random House, 1999) * ''How to Make a Million'' (Godwit, 2002) * ''Spark'' (Steele Roberts, 2008) * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashleigh Young
Ashleigh Young (born 1983) is a poet, essayist, editor and creative writing teacher. She received the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2017 for her second book, a collection of personal essays titled ''Can You Tolerate This?'' which also won the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Life Young was born in 1983 in Te Kuiti and grew up there and in Wellington. Writing featured in her life from childhood, when she wrote and illustrated a series of small books, started a magazine, created her own bedroom library, and (with her brothers) made movies with a borrowed video camera. She lived in London for several years and also worked for a year as director of the Katherine Mansfield House and Garden in Wellington, a house in which "you could step inside and imagine yourself to be a child in another century. She lists some of her favourite New Zealand writers and poets as Pip Adam, Hera Lindsay Bird, James Brown, Jenny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Smither
Elizabeth Edwina Smither (born 15 September 1941) is a New Zealand poet and writer. Life and career Smither was born in New Plymouth, and worked there part-time as a librarian. Her first collection of poetry, ''Here Come the Clouds'', was published in 1975, when she was in her mid-thirties. She has since published over fifteen poetry collections, as well as several short story collections and novels. Her work has won numerous notable awards, including three times the top poetry award at the New Zealand Book Awards. In 2002, she was named the New Zealand Poet Laureate. Harry Ricketts, writing for ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', describes her strength as being "the short poem, usually but not always unrhymed, witty, stylish and intellectually curious". He also notes that her poetry tends to feature figures from literature and legends, as well as Catholicism. Awards *1987 Scholarship in Letters *1989 Lilian Ida Smith Award (non-fiction) *1990 New Zealand Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airini Beautrais
Airini Jane Beautrais (born 1982) is a poet and short-story writer from New Zealand. Background Beautrais was born in 1982 and grew up in Auckland and Whanganui. She studied creative writing and ecological science at the Victoria University of Wellington. In 2016 she received her PhD in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, under doctoral advisors Harry Ricketts and James Brown. , Beautrais lives in Whanganui with her two sons. Works Beautrais's writing draws on her personal experiences, and is often set in her hometown of Whanganui. Beautrais has published four collections of poetry with Victoria University Press: ''Secret Heart'' (2006); ''Western Line'' (2011); ''Dear Neil Roberts'' (VUP, 2014); and ''Flow: Whanganui River Poems'' (2017). In 2020 Victoria University Press published a collection of her short stories, titled ''Bug Week & Other Stories.'' The collection had taken her ten years to write, and she has said it was inspired by "th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hera Lindsay Bird
Hera Lindsay Bird (born 31 December 1987) is a New Zealand poet. Life and career Hera Lindsay Bird was born and raised in Thames in the North Island of New Zealand. She attended Victoria University of Wellington and then received her Master's degree in poetry from its International Institute of Modern Letters. Her first collection of poetry, the self-titled ''Hera Lindsay Bird'', was published by Victoria University Press in 2016 and Penguin UK in 2017 and won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Bird first gained popularity when her poem "Keats Is Dead So Fuck Me From Behind" went viral in the summer of 2016. She and her work have since been profiled in ''VICE'', '' I-D'', and ''The Guardian''. In 2018 Bird's work was selected by British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy to be published by Smith/Doorstop Books as part of their Laureate's Choice series. The published collection was called ''Pamper Me to Hell & Back.'' In 2022 a Tweet poste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of New Zealand Literary Awards
Current and historic literary awards in New Zealand include: See also * New Zealand literature References {{reflist Literary awards A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. M ... New Zealand literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Poetry Awards
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