David Howard | |
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Born | 1959 Christchurch |
Occupation | Poet, writer and editor |
Language | English |
Nationality | New Zealand |
Notable works | The 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]