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Name
  
Louis Johnson


Role
  
Poet

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Died
  
1988, Winchester, United Kingdom

Books
  
No Man's Land: A Novel

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Louis Albert Johnson (27 September 1924 Feilding, New Zealand — 1 November 1988) was a New Zealand poet.

Contents

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Life

He graduated from Wellington Teachers’ Training College. From 1968 to 1980, Johnson lived overseas and traveled widely, with an extended stay in Papua New Guinea.

Johnson worked as a schoolteacher, journalist, and editor of several publications, including the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook (1951–64), Numbers (1954–60), and Antipodes New Writing (1987).

Awards

  • 1975 New Zealand Book Award for poetry for Fires and Patterns
  • 1976 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry

    • Works

  • "City Sunday"; "Holidays"; "Kapiti Coast", New Zealand Electronic Poetry Center
  • Stanza and Scene (1945)
  • Roughshod Among the Lilies, (1951)
  • The Sun Among the Ruins (1951)
  • New Worlds for Old (1957).
  • Bread and a Pension. Pegasus Press. 1964. 
  • Land like a lizard, New Guinea poems. Jacaranda Press. 1970. ISBN 978-0-7016-0346-5. 
  • Onion (1972)
  • Coming and Going. Mallinson Rendel. 1982. ISBN 978-0-908606-14-6. 
  • Winter Apples (1984)
  • True confessions of the last cannibal: new poems. Antipodes Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-9597805-0-5. 
  • Terry Sturm, ed. (2000). Selected poems. Victoria University Press. ISBN 978-0-86473-350-4. 

    • Criticism

  • "Starveling Year, poems by Mary Stanley", new zealand electronic poetry centre

    • References

    Louis Johnson (poet) Wikipedia
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