Landfall 232 Aotearoa New Zealand Arts and Letters, Autumn 2016

by Eggleton, David

• ISBN13: 9781927322246
• ISBN10: 1927322243
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-08-01
• Publisher: Otago University Press

Summary

Featured Artists: Elizabeth Thomson, Nick Austin, James Robinson, Simon Kaan Writers Michalia Arathimos, Ruth Arnison, Nick Ascroft, Airini Beautrais, Tony Beyer, Peter Bland, Victoria Broome, Sam Clements, Jennifer Compton, David Coventry, Carolyn Cossey, Ben Egerton, Riemke Ensing, Scott Hamilton, Lynn Jenner, Jan Kemp, Brent Kininmont, Jessica LeBas, Therese Lloyd, Olivia Macassey, Ria Masae, Kirsten McDougall, Leslie McKay, Caoimhe McKeogh, Robynanne Milford, Alice Miller, Michael Morrissey, Elizabeth Morton, Heidi North-Bailey, Claire Orchard, Maris O’Rourke, Jenny Powell, M.D. Rann, Rebecca Reader, Nicholas Reid, Elspeth Sandys, Kerrin P. Sharpe, Elizabeth Smither, Michael Steven, John Summers, Leilani Tamu, Chris Tse, Sue Wootton, Karen Zelas

Author Biography

David Eggleton is a performance poet and writer. Part Polynesian, he grew up between Fiji and New Zealand. Eggleton’s many awards include six times Book Reviewer of the Year in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, PEN Best First Book of Poetry, the Robert Burns Fellowship and, uniquely among New Zealand poets, he was London Time Out’s Street Entertainer of the Year in 1985. He also writes nonfiction, and has produced several documentaries, CDs and short films. In 2016 his collection The Conch Trumpet won the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry and he received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in poetry.