This is his 21st book of poetry, (launched just before his 81st birthday); he has also published short stories, novels and memoirs.
Kevin has won numerous awards, including the 2004 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement, and in 2006 the A W Reed Award for his contribution to NZ literature.
In 2000 he received an honorary doctorate from Massey University. That’s him below, with a friendly kaka (Nestor meridionalis).
Writing-poetry-day
Writing-poetry-day
chirped
through the curtains at just going on
half-past-five. A whole eighteen-and-a-half
hours of it still to go and already the birds
are bursting their lungs in the hedge
just outside the bedroom window
putting you in mind of sonnets
you could warble in the bath.
through the curtains at just going on
half-past-five. A whole eighteen-and-a-half
hours of it still to go and already the birds
are bursting their lungs in the hedge
just outside the bedroom window
putting you in mind of sonnets
you could warble in the bath.
Writing-poetry-day
with the sun now shouting down
the dark with golden stanzas as the heavens resonate
with radiant blues and a light wind chants
among the olives and the plums and my city
once more sings itself into the clouds and magically
the universe begins to speak in tongues.
the dark with golden stanzas as the heavens resonate
with radiant blues and a light wind chants
among the olives and the plums and my city
once more sings itself into the clouds and magically
the universe begins to speak in tongues.
Feeding the Birds
Kevin Ireland
Steele Roberts
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