Kevin Ireland

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

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 Sargeson Fellow 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

• An anthology of New Zealand poetry in English. Oxford University Press New Zealand. 1997. ISBN 978-0-19-558338-0. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)

External links

• "Kevin Ireland", New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
• Interview with Kevin Ireland for Cultural Icons project. Audio.
• Profile, natlib.govt.nz; accessed 23 September 2015.