Alistair Campbell (poet)

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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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poet Campbell dies , radionz.co.nz. August 16, 2009. 
  2. ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008
  3. ↑ Previous winners . Creative New Zealand . Retrieved October 24, 2013.
personal data
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