David Howard (poet)

David Howard
Howard in 2016
Howard in 2016
Born1959
Christchurch
OccupationPoet, writer and editor
LanguageEnglish
Nationality New Zealand
Notable worksThe Incomplete Poems
Shebang: Collected Poems 1980-2000
A Place To Go On From: The Collected Poems of Iain Lonie
Notable awards"Gordon & Gotch National Poetry Award, 1984"
"New Zealand Society of Authors Mid-Career Writers Award, 2009"
"University of South Pacific Poetry Prize, 2011"

David Howard (born 1959) is a New Zealand poet, writer and editor. His works have been widely published and translated into a variety of European languages.[1] Howard was the co-founder of the literary magazine takahē in 1989[1] and the Canterbury Poets Collective in 1990.[1] In New Zealand he held the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago in Dunedin in 2013,[2] the Otago Wallace Residency, in Auckland in 2014,[3] and the Ursula Bethell Residency in Christchurch,[4] in 2016. In more recent years he has been the recipient of a number of UNESCO City of Literature Residencies.[5][6]

  1. ^ a b c "David Howard". NZ Book Council. 1 January 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  2. ^ "The Robert Burns Fellowship - Previous Recipients". University of Otago. Archived from the original on 8 February 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  3. ^ "A Place to Go On From". Otago University Press. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing". University of Canterbury. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Writers From Slovenia and New Zealand to be the First Participants of the Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature Residency Programme". Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature. 14 April 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Residency Programme". Praha, město literatury. Retrieved 6 May 2019.