David Howard (poet)
David Howard | |
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Howard in 2016 | |
| 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. Howard was the co-founder of the literary magazine takahē in 1989 and the Canterbury Poets Collective in 1990. In New Zealand he held the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago in Dunedin in 2013, the Otago Wallace Residency, in Auckland in 2014, and the Ursula Bethell Residency in Christchurch, in 2016. In more recent years he has been the recipient of a number of UNESCO City of Literature Residencies.