Anne Kennedy

Anne Kennedy (born 1959 Wellington, New Zealand) is a New Zealand poet, writer, and filmwriter.

Life

Educated in Wellington, Kennedy has been a piano teacher, music librarian and since 1986, a freelance scriptwriter. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Victoria University of Wellington and taught at Trinity College London.^[1]

She is co-editor of the online literary journal, Trout,^[2][3] and co-edited the 2005 Best New Zealand Poems series. In 2006, Kennedy was visiting writer at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.^[1]

Her work has appeared in Landfall, Sport, NZ Listener, Southerly (Australia), JAAM.^[4]

Awards

• 1985 Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award.
• 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry

Works

Poetry

• "What Fell"; "Towards Fourteen Ways of Looking at Pohutukawa"; "Berlin", Poetry New Zealand
• "I am", Scottish Poetry Library

• Sing song. Auckland University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-1-86940-295-2. 
• The Time of the Giants. Auckland University Press. September 28, 2005. ISBN 978-1-86940-342-3. 

Novels, Novellas, Short Stories

• A Boy and His Uncle. Picador. 1998. ISBN 978-0-330-36057-9. 
• Musica Ficta. University of Queensland Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-7022-2457-7. 
• 100 Traditional Smiles. Victoria University Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-86473-077-0. 

Essay

• The Source of the Song (ed. Mark Williams, 1995)

Anthologies

• The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction. Trans-Atlantic Pub. November 1996. ISBN 978-0-330-33996-4. 
• The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories. Oxford University Press, USA. May 5, 1994. ISBN 978-0-19-558291-8.  1st edition 1992
• Bridget Williams, ed. (April 1, 2009). Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories. Victoria University Press. ISBN 978-0-86473-588-1. 
• Susan Davis, Russell Haley, ed. (1989). The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-011007-0. 
• Goodbye to Romance. Allen and Unwin. 1989. ISBN 978-99901-629-3-6. 
• Alistair Paterson, Anne Kennedy, James Norcliffe, Stephen Oliver (2004). Poetry New Zealand. Brick Row. 

Reviews

I’m totally confused by this book. I admire its sustained narrative energy and was moved by the mother’s struggle, but a sort of chip-on-the-shoulder attitude kept getting in the way. Understandable in terms of the author’s real-life situation, but unsettling when allied to a persistently grudging quality in the fiction.^[5]

References

External links

• "Anne Kennedy", New Zealand Book Council
• "Anne Kennedy", The New Word
• "Kirsty Gunn introduces Anne Kennedy ", Scottish Poetry Library