About...
- Name
- David Howard
- A bit about
Born in Christchurch (1959), David co-founded Takahe magazine (1989) and the Canterbury Poets Collective (1990). He spent his professional life as a pyrotechnics supervisor whose clients included the All Blacks, Janet Jackson and Metallica. In 2003 he retired to Purakanui in order to write. David was the inaugural recipient of the New Zealand Society of Authors Mid-Career Writer's Award (2009) for a body of poetry that has been translated into Dutch, German, Italian, Slovene and Spanish. In September 2011 David was joint winner of the poetry section in University of South Pacific Press Literature Prize.
- Big Idea
"Counsel me, Kind," I said, "what craft's best to learn?" "Learn to love," said Kind, "and forget all the rest."(William Langland)
Contact Details
- Postal Address
c/- Department of Philosophy
117 Union Street East
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand- david.howard@otago.ac.nz
- Phone
- 0274821002 [text preferred]
- Personal Website URL
- http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/howard/index.asp
- I sell my work online at
- http://www.coldhubpress.co.nz/coldhubpress.co.nz_/Incomplete__Poems.html
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- Member for
- 7 years 46 weeks
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