Louis Albert Johnson (27 September 1924 Feilding, New Zealand – 1 November 1988) was a New Zealand poet.
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Life
editHe 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
edit- 1975 New Zealand Book Award for poetry for Fires and Patterns
- 1976 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
Works
edit- "City Sunday"; "Holidays"; "Kapiti Coast", New Zealand Electronic Poetry Center
- Stanza and Scene (1945)
- Roughshod Among the Lilies, (1951)
- The Sun Among the Ruins (1951)
- New Worlds for Old (1957).
- Bread and a Pension. Pegasus Press. 1964.
- Land like a lizard, New Guinea poems. Jacaranda Press. 1970. ISBN 978-0-7016-0346-5.
- Onion (1972)
- Coming and Going. Mallinson Rendel. 1982. ISBN 978-0-908606-14-6.
- Winter Apples (1984)
- True confessions of the last cannibal: new poems. Antipodes Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-9597805-0-5.
- Terry Sturm, ed. (2000). Selected poems. Victoria University Press. ISBN 978-0-86473-350-4.
Criticism
editReferences
edit- ^ Louis Johnson. (2009). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 08, 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- ^ "Poetry New Zealand : Archives : Issue 23".
- ^ "1980 Louis Johnson | NZETC".
- ^ Ian Hamilton (1994). The Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English. Oxford University Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-19-866147-4.
Louis Johnson (poet).