Kevin Ireland
Kevin Mark Ireland (born 18 July 1933, Auckland – ) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist and librettist.[1]
Life
He lived in England in 1959 for twenty-five years. He worked for The Times for 20 years.
He was writer-in-residence at Canterbury University in 1986, the Sargeson Fellow in 1987, the University of Auckland’s writing fellow in 1989, assistant editor of Quote Unquote, and president of PEN, 1990–91.[2]
He married Pheobe Caroline Dalwood; they have two sons. He lives in Devonport, New Zealand.[1]
Awards
Works
- Face to Face: Twenty-Four Poems (1963)
- Educating the Body (1967)
- A Letter from Amsterdam (1972)
- Orchids, Hummingbirds and Other Poems (1974)
- A Grammar of Dreams (1975)
- Literary Cartoons (1977)
- The Dangers of Art: Poems 1975–80 (1980)
- Practice Night in the Drill Hall: Poems (1984)
- The Year of the Comet: Twenty-Six 1986 Sonnets (1986)
- Selected Poems (1987)
- Tiberius at the Beehive (1990)
- Anzac Day: Selected Poems. Hazard Press. 1997. ISBN 9781877161117.
- Fourteen reasons for writing: new poems. Hazard Press. 2001. ISBN 9781877270086.
- Walking the land. Hazard Press. 2003. ISBN 9781877270529.
Short Stories
- Sleeping With the Angels. Penguin Books. 1995. ISBN 9780140244977.
Novels
- Blowing My Top. Penguin Books. 1996. ISBN 9780140256451.
Editor
- The New Zealand Collection: A Celebration of the New Zealand Novel (1990)
Essays
Memoirs
- Under the bridge and over the moon. Vintage. 1998. ISBN 9781869413637.
- Backwards to forwards: a memoir. Vintage. 2002. ISBN 9781869414993.
Anthologies
- Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, Mark Williams, ed (1997). An anthology of New Zealand poetry in English. Oxford University Press New Zealand. ISBN 9780195583380.
References
External links
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