Cilla McQueen

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Cilla McQueen (born 1949 in Birmingham, England) is a poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.[1][2].

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[edit] Early years and Education

McQueen's family moved to New Zealand when she was four. She was educated at Columba College in Dunedin and University of Otago ( Master's with Honors in 1970).[3]

[edit] Career

McQueen lives in Bluff, at the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island. A poet and artist, she has published ten collections and a CD of her poetry. Awards include: NZ Book Award for Poetry 1983, 1989 and 1991; Robert Burns fellowship at Otago University 1985 & 1986; Fulbright Visiting Writer’s Fellowship 1985; Inaugural Australia-New Zealand Writer’s Exchange Fellowship 1987; Goethe Institut Scholarshp to Berlin 1988; NZ Queen Elizabeth Arts Council Scholarship in Letters 1992. Her most recent works are the book, Fire-penny & the CD A Wind Harp from Otago University Press.

[edit] Works

McQueen's work includes a variety of poetry books and poems over the past twenty-five years, including these volumes:[4]

  • 1982: Homing In
  • 1984: Anti Gravity
  • 1986: Wild Sweets
  • 1988: Benzina
  • 1990: Berlin Diary
  • 1993: Crikey
  • 2000: Markings, Otago University Press
  • 2001: Axis, Otago University Press
  • 2002: Soundings, Otago University Press
  • 2005: Fire-penny, Otago University Press
  • 2006: A Wind Harp (compact disc)

[edit] References

  1. ^ New Zealand Poetry - Biography - Cilla McQueen
  2. ^ Cilla McQueen, A Wind Harp, Otago University Press, New Zealand
  3. ^ McQUEEN, Cilla
  4. ^ Cilla McQueen - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library

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