Louis Albert Johnson (27 September 1924
Feilding
Feilding ( mi, Aorangi) is a town in the Manawatū District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 54, 20 kilometres north of Palmerston North. The town is the seat of the Manawatū District Council.
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, New Zealand – 1 November 1988) was a New Zealand
poet
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Life
He graduated from
Wellington Teachers’ Training College.
From 1968 to 1980, Johnson lived overseas and traveled widely, with an extended stay in
Papua New Guinea
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Johnson worked as a schoolteacher, journalist, and editor of several publications, including the ''New Zealand Poetry Yearbook'' (1951–64), ''Numbers'' (1954–60), and ''Antipodes New Writing'' (1987).
Awards
* 1975 New Zealand Book Award for poetry for Fires and Patterns
* 1976
Montana 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
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Works
"City Sunday"; "Holidays"; "Kapiti Coast", ''New Zealand Electronic Poetry Center''* ''Stanza and Scene'' (1945)
''Roughshod Among the Lilies'' (1951)
* ''The Sun Among the Ruins'' (1951)
* ''New Worlds for Old'' (1957).
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* ''Onion'' (1972)
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* ''Winter Apples'' (1984)
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Criticism
"''Starveling Year'', poems by Mary Stanley", ''new zealand electronic poetry centre''
References
External links
"Louis Johnson", ''New Zealand Literature File'', University of Auckland
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1924 births
1988 deaths
New Zealand male poets
20th-century New Zealand poets
20th-century New Zealand male writers