Alistair Campbell (poet)
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (actually Alistair Campbell , ONZM ; born June 25, 1925 in Rarotonga ; † August 16, 2009 ) was a New Zealand poet, radio play writer and novelist.
Life
His father, John Archibald (Jock) Campbell, was a New Zealander of Scottish descent. His mother, Teu Bosini, a Maori from Penrhyn Island , one of the Cook Islands . Campbell was born Alistair Campbell in Rarotonga and grew up with his mother on Penrhyn Island. In 1932 his mother died of tuberculosis . The next year his father died too. He was sent to an orphanage in Dunedin .
He lived most of his life in New Zealand, mainly in the Wellington region and for several decades in Pukerua Bay , now part of Porirua .
After returning to the Cook Islands and discovering that his grandfather was related to the chief family, he added the Te Ariki ( the chief ) to his name . He attended Otago Boys High School in Dunedin and studied at the University of Otago and Victoria University of Wellington . At the university he was friends with the poet James K. Baxter . In the 1950s he became a member of the Wellington Group , a loose association of writers who mostly shared a common rejection of the ideas and works of the writer Allen Curnow .
He had two children with his first wife, the poet Fleur Adcock . After the divorce, he married the poet Aline Margaret (Meg) Anderson , with whom he had three more children.
From 1976 to 1979 he was the president of the New Zealand branch of PEN
bibliography
poetry
- 1950: Mine Eyes Dazzle: Poems 1947-49 , Christchurch: Pegasus Press
- 1951: Mine Eyes Dazzle : Pegasus New Zealand Poets 1, Christchurch: Pegasus Press (with a foreword by James K. Baxter)
- 1956: Mine Eyes Dazzle , Christchurch: Pegasus Press (revised edition)
- 1963: Sanctuary of Spirits , Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
- 1964: Wild Honey , London: Oxford University Press
- 1967: Blue Rain: Poems , Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
- 1972: Kapiti : Selected Poems 1947-71, Christchurch: Pegasus Press
- 1975: Dreams, Yellow Lions , Martinborough: Alister Taylor
- 1980: The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Poems , Pukerua Bay: Te Kotare Press
- 1981: Collected Poems 1947-1981 , Martinborough: Alister Taylor
- 1985: Soul Traps , Pukerua Bay: Te Kotare Press
- 1992: Stone Rain: The Polynesian Strain , Christchurch: Hazard Press
- 1995: Death and the Tagua , Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
- 1996: Pocket Collected Poems , Christchurch: Hazard Press
- 1999: Gallipoli & Other Poems , Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
- 2001: Maori Battalion: A Poetic Sequence , Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
- 2002: Poets in Our Youth: Four Letters in Verse , four letters in verse to John Mansfield Thomson, Harry Orsman, Pat Wilson, and James K. Baxter; Wellington: Pemmican Press
- 2005: The Dark Lord of Savaiki : Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press
- 2007: Just Poetry , Wellington: HeadworX
- 2008: It's Love, Isn't It? (with Meg Campbell), Wellington: HeadworX
Douglas Lilburn's poem The Return was set to electronic music.
Other works
- 1961: The Happy Summer , children's novel
- 1965: The Proprietor , radio play
- 1964: The Homecoming , radio play
- 1966: The Suicide , radio play
- 1970: When the Bough Breaks , radio play
- 1984: Island to Island , Memoirs
- 1989: The Frigate Bird , Roman, Commonwealth Writers Prize regional finalist
- 1991: Sidewinder , Roman, Auckland: Reed Books
- 1993: Tia , Roman, Auckland: Reed Books
- 1999: Fantasy With Witches , novel
Awards
- New Zealand Book Award for Poetry (1982)
- Pacific Islands Artist Award (1998),
- Honorary Doctorate in Literature from Victoria University of Wellington (1999)
- Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (2005).
- Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (2005)
Web links
- Entry on Campbell in The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature
- Biography at the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Center
Individual evidence
- ↑ Poet Campbell dies , radionz.co.nz. August 16, 2009.
- ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008
- ↑ Previous winners . Creative New Zealand . Retrieved October 24, 2013.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Campbell, Alistair |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand poet |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rarotonga |
DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 2009 |
Place of death | Wellington |