Iain Lonie

Iain Lonie
Born
Iain Malcolm Lonie

1932
March, Cambridgeshire
Died18 June 1988(1988-06-18) (aged 55–56)
Dunedin, New Zealand
EducationKing's College, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Poet
  • historian
Notable workA Place to Go On From (collected works, published posthumously)
Spouses
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(m. 1951; div. 1966)​
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(m. 1969; died 1982)​
Children5, including Bridie Lonie

Iain Malcolm Lonie (1932 – 18 June 1988) was a British-born New Zealand poet and a historian of ancient Greek medicine. His academic career was spent between New Zealand, Australia and England. He read classics at the University of Cambridge, lectured at universities in both Australia and New Zealand, worked as a research fellow for the Wellcome Trust, and wrote a definitive textbook on the Hippocratic texts On Generation, On the Nature of the Child and Diseases IV.[1][2]

Lonie's first volumes of poetry were published in 1967 and 1970. After the sudden death of his second wife in 1982, loss and grief became his central poetic themes.[1] His poems received little critical attention during his lifetime, but in 2015 (nearly three decades after his death) the publication of his collected works by New Zealand poet and editor David Howard sparked renewed interest in his work.[3]

  1. ^ a b Whiteford, Peter (2006). "Lonie, Iain". In Robinson, Roger; Wattie, Nelson (eds.). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-1917-3519-6. OCLC 865265749. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  2. ^ Cunningham, Andrew (1989). "In Memoriam: Iain Malcolm Lonie" (PDF). Dynamis. 9: 237–8. PMID 11622251. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  3. ^ Lonie, Iain (2015). Howard, David (ed.). A Place to Go On From: The Collected Poems of Iain Lonie. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press. ISBN 978-1-9273-2201-7. Retrieved 30 October 2020.