Louis Johnson (poet) explained

Louis Albert Johnson (27 September 1924 Feilding, New Zealand – 1 November 1988) was a New Zealand poet.

Life

He 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

• 1975 New Zealand Book Award for poetry for Fires and Patterns
• 1976 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry

Works

• "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).
• Book: Bread and a Pension . Pegasus Press. 1964 .
• Book: Land like a lizard, New Guinea poems. Jacaranda Press. 1970. 978-0-7016-0346-5 .
• Onion (1972)
• Book: Coming and Going . Mallinson Rendel. 1982. 978-0-908606-14-6 .
• Winter Apples (1984)
• Book: True confessions of the last cannibal: new poems. Antipodes Press. 1986. 978-0-9597805-0-5 .
• Book: Selected poems. Terry Sturm. Victoria University Press. 2000. 978-0-86473-350-4 .

Criticism

• "Starveling Year, poems by Mary Stanley", new zealand electronic poetry centre

External links

• "Louis Johnson", New Zealand Literature File, University of Auckland
• "Australia and New Zealand", Poetry House

Notes and References

1. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/305360/Louis-Albert-Johnson Louis Johnson. (2009). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 08, 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online
2. Web site: Poetry New Zealand : Archives : Issue 23.
3. Web site: 1980 Louis Johnson | NZETC.
4. Book: The Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English. registration. 258. Louis Johnson (poet).. Ian Hamilton . 978-0-19-866147-4 . 1994 . Oxford University Press.