Serie Barford is a
performance poet
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History
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from Auckland, New Zealand.
Her poetry collection, ''Tapa Talk'', was published in 2007 to critical acclaim.
She has published four other books of poetry (in 1985, 1989, 2015,
and 2021
). Her poems and short stories have been published in journals and anthologies, among them Mauri Ola, Whetu Moana, Niu Voices, Landfall, Poetry New Zealand, Dreadlocks, Writing the Pacific, Trout, Blackmail Press, Snorkel and Best New Zealand Poems.
[ ''Sleeping with Stones'' was shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2022 ]Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder Wa ...
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References
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New Zealand poets
New Zealand women poets
Writers from Auckland
New Zealand people of Samoan descent
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)