Selected Poems : James Brown

This book is the first to represent the full extent of the work of James Brown. With personal lyrics, narrative desire, short takes, anti-poetry, stolen lines, and hill-climbing, Selected Poems is a showcase of one of New Zealands essential poetic voices.

James ?Brown's poetry collections include?- Go Round Power Please?(1995), which won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award, Lemon?(1999),? Favourite Monsters ?(2002),? The Year of the Bicycle? (2006),? Warm Auditorium ?(2012), and? Floods Another Chamber ?(2017), as well as the useful nonfiction booklet ?Instructions for Poetry Readings ?(2005). He edited ?The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand Landscape? (Craig Potton, 2005), the literary magazine? Sport ?from 1993 to 2000, and Best New Zealand Poems?2008. James has been the recipient of several writing fellowships, including the 1994 Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary and a share of the 2000 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. In 2001 he was the Canterbury University Writer in Residence, and the Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence in 2004. He teaches creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters.

Featured in the 28 April 2020 New Zealand newsletter.
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