David Eggleton Explained

David Eggleton
Birth Place:Auckland, New Zealand
Nationality:Tongan, Rotuma and European
Genre:Poetry
Awards:

    David Eggleton (born 1952) is a New Zealand poet, critic and writer. Eggleton has been awarded the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry and in 2019 was appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate, a title he held until 2022.[1] [2] Eggleton's work has appeared in a multitude of publications in New Zealand and he has released over 18 poetry books (1986–2001) with a variety of publishers, including Penguin.

    Early life

    Born in Auckland and of mixed European, Tongan, and Rotuman descent, Eggleton spent part his formative years in both Fiji and Auckland, dropping out of school to take up performance music and poetry.[3] Eggleton later moved to Dunedin, where he has been based since the 1980s.

    Literary career

    Eggleton's creative output has been diverse, including mixed media recordings involving poetry and music, several volumes of poetry, histories of New Zealand music and photography, and a large number of literary reviews. He is also an established Art Critic, writing regularly for Art New Zealand, which is New Zealand's major visual arts journal. He was the editor of New Zealand's premier literary journal, Landfall, from 2010 to 2017.[4] He is a six-time Montana New Zealand Reviewer of the Year. Other awards have included a Robert Burns Fellowship from the University of Otago in 1990, London Time Outs Street Poet of the Year (1985), the 2015 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry,[5] and in 2016 the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (in poetry).[6] His collection of poems, The Conch Trumpet (Otago University Press, 2015), won the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry. In 2017 he received the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers' Residency.[4] Eggleton has also been a part of the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival in 2017, 2019 and 2021.[7] A video, For Art's Sake: Art and Politics. Performance Poet David Eggleton, won the TV Arts Documentary prize in the 1997 Qantas Media Awards.[3]

    In 2022 Eggleton was a guest at the Auckland Writers Festival.[8]

    Ian Wedde (in the Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse) describes Eggleton's poem Painting Mount Taranaki as "...inside its history. Its language is a confident if erratic blend of vernacular, lyric, and high demotic; this confidence allows for mobile and ironic cross-currents animating the texture and depth of the language throughout."[9] Eggleton's poems are frequently iconoclastic or anti-establishment, using mockery to point out the shortcomings of political and social systems, and when read are delivered at a fast, fluent tempo.[10]

    Recordings and publications

    Recordings

    Video

    Books

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Bio David Eggleton 2019. 2022-02-05. Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival. en.
    2. Web site: David Eggleton Named New Poet Laureate. 2019-08-23. rnz.co.nz.
    3. "Eggleton, David ", New Zealand Book Council. June 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
    4. Web site: David Eggleton . Academy of New Zealand Literature . 26 March 2021.
    5. "Kiwi poet David Eggleton reveals his inspirations," stuff.co.nz, 20 September 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
    6. "2016 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Winners Announced," Creative NZ, 10 October 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
    7. Web site: David Eggleton. 2022-02-05. Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival. en.
    8. Web site: Writer: David Eggleton - Writers. live. 2022-01-19. Auckland Writers Festival. https://web.archive.org/web/20170416050945/http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/writers/david-eggleton?code=E . 2017-04-16 .
    9. Wedde, I., and McQueen, H., (eds.) (1985) The Penguin book of New Zealand verse. Auckland: Penguin. p.40.
    10. "David Eggleton", The Poetry Archive, Retrieved 26 February 2016.
    11. Web site: david eggleton music Discogs. 2022-02-05. www.discogs.com.
    12. Web site: Dobbyn. Dave. Johnson. Greg. Tocker. Mahinarangi. Phillipps. Martin. Yates. Charlotte. Brough. Andrew. Reyne. Jordan. Farr. Gareth. Hunt. Sam. 2000-01-01. Baxter [sound recording] : poems by James K. Baxter]. 2022-02-05. Baxter [sound recording] : poems by J... Items National Library of New Zealand National Library of New Zealand.
    13. Book: Eggleton, David. Fast Talker - Auckland University Press. 2006. en.
    14. Web site: David Eggleton. live. 2022-01-19. Read NZ. https://web.archive.org/web/20200123153758/https://www.read-nz.org/writer/eggleton-david . 2020-01-23 .
    15. Web site: Press . Otago University . Respirator . 2023-04-06 . www.otago.ac.nz . en-nz.
    16. Web site: David Eggleton. 2022-01-25. University of Otago. en-nz.
    17. Web site: David Eggleton - Catalogue. 2022-02-05. www.goodreads.com.
    18. Book: Eggleton, David. Into the light: A history of New Zealand photography. 2006. Craig Potton. 978-1-877333-54-5. Nelson, N.Z. 82289646.
    19. Web site: Eggleton. David. Ready To Fly: the Story of New Zealand Rock Music. 2022-02-05. www.abebooks.com. en.
    20. Web site: Eggleton. David. Seasons: the New Zealand Year. 2022-02-05. McLeods Booksellers. en.
    21. Web site: Eggleton. David. Rhyming Planet. 2022-02-05. www.hardtofind.co.nz. en.
    22. Web site: Eggleton. David. Here on Earth: The Landscape in New Zealand Literature. 2022-02-05. Jason Books. en.
    23. Web site: Eggleton. David. 1995. Empty Orchestra. 2022-02-05. otago.ourheritage.ac.nz.
    24. Book: Eggleton, David. People of the Land. 1988. Penguin Books. 978-0-14-058613-8. en.

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