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Name
  
Kevin Ireland


Role
  
Poet



Books
  
How to Catch a Fish, Table Talk: New Poems, How to Survive the Morning, Daisy Chains: A Novel, Airports and Other Wasted D

Kevin Ireland reads A.R.D. Fairburn


Kevin Mark Ireland (born 18 July 1933) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist and librettist.

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Life

Born in Auckland, Ireland has lived in England for 25 years, although he has consistently identified himself as a New Zealand poet. He worked for The Times for 20 years. He was writer-in-residence at Canterbury University in 1986, the Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellowship in 1987, the University of Auckland's writing fellow in 1989, assistant editor of Quote Unquote, and president of PEN, 1990–91.

Family

He married Pheobe Caroline Dalwood; they have two sons. He lives in Devonport, New Zealand.

Awards

  • 1979 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry for Literary Cartoons
  • 1990 New Zealand Medal
  • OBE for services to literature.
  • 2004 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement
  • Works

  • "Railway Jokes", Sport 8 (Autumn 1992)
  • "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 978-1-877161-11-7. 
  • Fourteen reasons for writing: new poems. Hazard Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-877270-08-6. 
  • Walking the land. Hazard Press. 2003. ISBN 978-1-877270-52-9. 
  • How to Catch a Fish. Awa Press. 2005. ISBN 9780958253864. 
  • How to Survive the Morning. Cape Catley. 2008. ISBN 9781877340178. 
  • Dreamy Days and Nothing Done. Steele Roberts Aotearoa. 2012. ISBN 978-1-877577-69-7. 
  • Selected Poems 1963-2013. Steele Roberts Aotearoa. 2013. ISBN 978-1-927242-16-2. 
  • Short Stories

  • Sleeping With the Angels. Penguin Books. 1995. ISBN 978-0-14-024497-7. 
  • Novels

  • Blowing My Top. Penguin Books. 1996. ISBN 978-0-14-025645-1. 
  • Editor

  • The New Zealand Collection: A Celebration of the New Zealand Novel (1990)
  • Essays

  • "Kevin Ireland on Frank Sargeson", Quote Unquote, November 1995, Issue Four
  • Islands 28 (1980)
  • One of the Boys? (1988)
  • Skinning a Fish (1994)
  • Memoirs

  • Under the bridge and over the moon. Vintage. 1998. ISBN 978-1-86941-363-7. 
  • Backwards to forwards: a memoir. Vintage. 2002. ISBN 978-1-86941-499-3. 
  • Anthologies

  • Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, Mark Williams, eds. (1997). An anthology of New Zealand poetry in English. Oxford University Press New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-19-558338-0. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
  • References

    Kevin Ireland Wikipedia


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