Diana Bridge (born 1942 in

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) is a New Zealand poet. She attended Queen Margaret College and

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. She lived most of her adult life in various parts of Asia, including India and China, and as an adult she completed a PhD in classical Chinese poetry at the

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. She began writing poetry in her 50s. In 2010 she was awarded the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for her distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry. In 2014 her essay "An attachment to China" won the

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. In 2015, she completed a residency at the Writers' and Artists' Colony at

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in New York. She won the

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in the same year. She shared her poem ''Dream Sound'' for Chinese language week in 2021.

Selected works

* ''Landscape with lines'' (1996) * ''The girls on the wall'' (1999) * ''Porcelain'' (2001) * ''Red leaves'' (2005) * ''An unexpected legacy: Xie Tiao's 'poems on things (2008) – translation of works by Chinese poet

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* ''Aloe & other poems'' (2009) * ''In the supplementary garden: new and selected poems'' (2016) * ''Two or more islands'' (2019)

References

External links

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The New Zealand Poet Laureate blog: poetry by Diana Bridge
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