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David Mitchell (New Zealand Poet)
David Mitchell (10 January 1940 – 21 June 2011) was a New Zealand poet, teacher and cricketer. In the 1960s and 1970s he was a well-known performance poet in New Zealand, and in 1980 he founded the weekly event "Poetry Live" which continues to run in Auckland . His iconic poetry collection ''Pipe Dreams in Ponsonby'' (1972) sold well and was a critical success, and his poems have been included in several New Zealand anthologies and journals. A collection of his poems titled ''Steal Away Boy: Selected Poems of David Mitchell'' was published in 2010, shortly before his death. Early life Mitchell was born in Wellington in 1940. He was the son of David Eric Mitchell, a deckhand and former stoker from Sydney, and Rossetta Cousins, a Scottish domestic servant. His father died when he was 13, shortly before he started at Wellington College. His first published poem was in the College's annual magazine, ''The Wellingtonian''. He was fond of sport as a teenager and was named as one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by metro area, and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed. Legends recount that Kupe discovered and explored the region in about the 10th century, with initial settlement by Māori iwi such as Rangitāne and Muaūpoko. The disruptions of the Musket Wars led to them being overwhelmed by northern iwi such as Te Āti Awa by the early 19th century. Wellington's current form was originally designed by Captain William Mein Smith, the first Surveyor General for Edward Wakefield's New Zealand Company, in 1840. The Wellington urban area, which only includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
The Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, formerly known as the New Zealand Post Katherine Mansfield Prize and the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, is one of New Zealand's foremost literary awards. Named after Katherine Mansfield, one of New Zealand's leading historical writers, the award gives winners ("fellows", whether male or female) funding towards transport to and accommodation in Menton, France, where Mansfield did some of her best-known and most significant writing. Overview The fellowship is awarded to New Zealand citizens and residents whose fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, children’s fiction or playwriting has had "favourable impact". Unlike the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, which are the best-known New Zealand literary awards, the fellowship is awarded to an individual to develop their future work, rather than for a specific already-published work. In addition to funding towards transport and accommodation, fellows are given acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Green (poet)
Paula Joy Green (born 1955) is a New Zealand poet and children's author. Background Green was born in 1955, in Auckland. She attended the Kamo High School. In 2005 Green received her PhD in Italian, supervised by Bernadette Luciano, and was Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland. Green is married to the painter Michael Hight and currently lives in Auckland. Career Green has published several collections of her own poetry including: * ''Cookhouse'' (1997, Auckland University Press) * ''Chrome'' (2000, Auckland University Press) * ''Crosswind'' (2004, Auckland University Press) * ''Making Lists for Francis Hodgkins'' (2007, Auckland University Press) * ''Slip Stream'' (2010, Auckland University Press) * ''The Baker's Thumbprint'' (2013, Seraph Press) * ''New York Pocket Book'' (2017, Seraph Press) * "The Track" (2019, Seraph Press) Her books for children include: * ''Flamingo Bendalingo: Poems from the Zoo'' (2006, Auckland University Press), as editor, written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otago Daily Times
The ''Otago Daily Times'' (ODT) is a newspaper published by Allied Press Ltd in Dunedin, New Zealand. The ''ODT'' is one of the country's four main daily newspapers, serving the southern South Island with a circulation of around 26,000 and a combined print and digital annual audience of 304,000. Founded in 1861 it is New Zealand's oldest surviving daily newspaper – Christchurch's ''The Press'', six months older, was a weekly paper until March 1863. Its motto is "Optima Durant" or "Quality Endures". History Founding The ''ODT'' was founded by William H. Cutten and Julius (later Sir Julius) Vogel during the boom following the discovery of gold at the Tuapeka, the first of the Otago goldrushes. Co-founder Vogel had learnt the newspaper trade while working as a goldfields correspondent, journalist and editor in Victoria prior to immigrating to New Zealand. Vogel had arrived in Otago in early October 1861 at the age of 26 and soon took up employment at the ''Otago Colonist'', w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Edmond
Martin Edmond (born 1952 in Ohakune) is a New Zealand author and screenplay writer. He is the son of writer Lauris Edmond. Biography Edmond studied Anthropology and English, graduating MA in English from Victoria University of Wellington. He spent a year working as a junior lecturer before joining avant garde theatre group Red Mole (Theatre Company), Red Mole, with whom he spent five years as a writer and actor. He has lived in Sydney, Australia since 1981. He has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University with his dissertation on Australian artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira. Writing career Edmond has written screenplays for several New Zealand feature films, including ''Illustrious Energy'' (1987); ''The Footstep Man'' (1991) and ''Terra Nova (1996 film), Terra Nova'' (1996). Edmond has written over 20 books. They include ''Streets of Music'' (1980), ''Houses, Days, Skies'' (1988), ''The Autobiography of My Father'' (1992), and ''The Resurrection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. The Press currently publishes around 20 new books a year in history and politics, art and architecture, literature and poetry, Māori, Pacific and Asian Studies, science, business and health. It published its 500th book in 2005 of which 22 were prize winning publications. Awards Auckland University Press won the ''Most Beautiful Books Australia & New Zealand Award'' (2013) and its authors have won a number of national prizes. Imprints 1966–1970: Published for the University of Auckland by the Oxford University Press 1970–1986: Auckland University Press/Oxford University Press 1986–: Auckland University Press 1995–1998: a small number of books carried the imprint Auckland Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Locke
Terry James Locke (born 1946) is a New Zealand poet, anthologist, poetry reviewer and academic. Background Terry Locke was born in Auckland and grew up in the suburb of Sandringam, the youngest of three children. He attended St Peter's College where he was in the same class as Sam HuntLocke has commented on Sam Hunt (and James K Baxter with whom Locke had later personal dealings) ihis review of ''James K. Baxter: Poems selected and introduced by Sam Hunt'', Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2008. (retrieved 20 February 2012) This review also contains the text of ''Reply to Baxter'' from Locke's first book of poems, ''After a Life in the Provinces''. and was taught "for two important senior years" by K O Arvidson."Terry Locke", ''Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Pirie
Mark Pirie (born 30 April 1974) is a New Zealand poet, writer, literary critic, anthologist, publisher, and editor. He is best known for his Generation X New Zealand anthology ''The NeXt Wave'', which included an 8,000-word introduction (1998), the literary journals ''JAAM'' (Just Another Art Movement) and ''broadsheet'', a book cover photo series of tributes to famous rock albums, and the small press HeadworX Publishers in Wellington, New Zealand. Life His thesis was on the New Zealand poet and editor Louis Johnson, a writer who shares similarities with Pirie's work. Publications Pirie has written or published over 100 titles listed in the National Library of New Zealand. Many are published under his own imprints HeadworX Publishers and The Night Press, Wellington or through the Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop in Paekākāriki. The main influences on his literary development were listening to popular music, blues and jazz at an early age. His poetry draws on film, music a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grafton United Cricket Club
Grafton United Cricket Club is one of New Zealand's oldest and largest cricket clubs, catering for around 700 senior members and 600 juniors (as of October 2017) from its clubrooms at Victoria Park, in central Auckland. The club was founded as the United Cricket Club, on 18 September 1862 by players from existing Auckland clubs and was often referred to as 'the United' because of this. The club aimed to acquire more regular and more challenging competition than that which was on offer in Auckland at the time. The club's first ground was a field in Newmarket donated by local farmer, James Dilworth, but its distance from the city prompted the administration, on behalf of the cricketers of Auckland, to apply for the use of the Auckland Domain and it began practicing and playing there in 1863. When the Auckland Cricket Association's first District Scheme came into effect in 1903, the club became the Grafton District Cricket Club. It was so-named because, under the terms of the sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachelor Of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years, depending on the country and institution. * Degree attainment typically takes four years in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Brunei, China, Egypt, Ghana, Greece, Georgia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mexico, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States and Zambia. * Degree attainment typically takes three years in Albania, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Caribbean, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, the Canadian province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Sharp
Iain Sharp (born 1953 in Glasgow) is a New Zealand poet and critic. Sharp emigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1961, where they settled in Auckland. He studied at Auckland University where he received a doctorate in English in 1982. His doctoral thesis was titled ''Wit at several weapons: a critical edition''. Soon after completing his PhD he qualified as a librarian from the New Zealand Library School. He currently works part-time in the Special Collections Department of Auckland Central City Library, and is also a reviewer, critic and columnist for the '' New Zealand Listener'' magazine.'' The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'', edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (1998)Sharp, Iainat New Zealand Book Council Works * ''Why Mammals Shiver'', Auckland: One Eyed Press, 1981 * ''She Is Trying to Kidnap the Blind Person'', Auckland: Hard Echo Press, 1985 * ''The Pierrot Variations'', Auckland: Hard Echo Press, 1985 * ''Two Poets: Selections from the Work o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Mic
An open mic or open mike (shortened from "open microphone") is a live show at a venue such as a coffeehouse, nightclub, comedy club, strip club, or pub, usually taking place at night, in which audience members may perform on stage whether they are amateurs or professionals, often for the first time or to promote an upcoming performance. As the name suggests, performers are usually provided with a microphone plugged into a PA system so that they can be heard by the audience. Performers sign up in advance for a time slot with the host, who is typically an experienced performer or the venue's manager or owner. The host may screen potential candidates for suitability for the venue and give them a time to perform during the show. Open mics are focused on performance arts like comedy (whether it be sketch or stand-up), music (often acoustic singer-songwriters), poetry, and spoken word. It is less common for groups such as rock bands or comedy troupes to perform, mostly because ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
