Louis Johnson (poet)
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Louis Albert Johnson (27 September 1924 Feilding, New Zealand — 1 November 1988) was a New Zealand poet.
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.[1]
Johnson worked as a schoolteacher, journalist, and editor of several publications, including the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook (1951–64),[2] Numbers (1954–60), and Antipodes New Writing (1987).[3][4]
Awards
- 1975 New Zealand Book Award for poetry for Fires and Patterns
- 1976 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
Works
- Stanza and Scene (1945)
- Roughshod Among the Lilies, (1951)
- The Sun Among the Ruins (1951)
- New Worlds for Old (1957).
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- Onion (1972)
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- Winter Apples (1984)
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Criticism
References
- ↑ Louis Johnson. (2009). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 08, 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- ↑ http://www.poetrynz.net/archives/issue-23/
- ↑ http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-RobWrit-_N66629.html
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