Lynley Edmeades Explained

Lynley Edmeades
Birth Place:Putāruru, New Zealand
Education:
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    Child:yes
    Thesis Title:The Hear and Now: Sound and Technology in the Avant-Garde Poetics of Gertrude Stein, John Cage, and Caroline Bergvall
    Thesis Url:https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/esploro/outputs/doctoral/The-Hear-and-Now-Sound-and/9926478774001891
    Thesis Year:2017

    Lynley Carol Edmeades is a New Zealand poet, academic and editor. She has published two poetry collections and held a number of writers' residencies. she is the editor of the New Zealand literary journal Landfall.

    Biography

    Edmeades was born in Putāruru.[1] She has an MA in creative writing from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the Queen's University of Belfast and a PhD in avant-garde poetry from the University of Otago.[2] [3] [4] In 2009 she was the first recipient of the Lavinia Winter Fellowship.[5]

    Her first poetry collection, As the Verb Tenses (2016), was long-listed for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and shortlisted for the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Best First Book of Poetry at the Struga Poetry Evenings festival.[6] Cordite Poetry Review described it as "a rare debut collection of poems that dazzles and delights with a profane, childlike wisdom".[1]

    Her second poetry collection, Listening In (2019), was long-listed for the Mary and Peter Biggs Poetry Award at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[6] [7] Claire Lacey for Landfall Review Online praised it as a "celebration of poetic craft" which "rewards the attentive reader through the accretion of linkages and lineages throughout the text".[8]

    In 2018, Edmeades was the Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury and Artist in Residence at Massey University.[2] [6] In 2017 she received a highly commended award in the Landfall Essay Competition,[9] and she has also been shortlisted for the Calibre Prize.[6] In 2016 and 2018 her works were selected for inclusion in the Best New Zealand Poems series.[10] [11]

    , Edmeades teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of Otago.[12] In April 2021 she was announced to be the new editor of New Zealand literary magazine Landfall.[2] [13] [14] The first issue she edited was issue 242 in spring 2021.[15]

    In 2022, Bordering on the Miraculous was published, a collaboration between Edmeades and painter Saskia Leek.[16]

    Selected works

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. News: McCarthy . Beornn . Review Short: Lynley Edmeades’s As the Verb Tenses . 22 September 2021 . Cordite Poetry Review . 18 April 2017.
    2. Web site: New Landfall editor named – Lynley Edmeades . New Zealand Society of Authors . 22 September 2021 . 22 April 2021.
    3. Edmeades . Lynley . 2013 . Masters thesis . As I Exemplify: An Examination of the Musical-Literary Relationship in the Work of John Cage . OUR Archive, University of Otago . 10523/4353 .
    4. Edmeades . Lynley . 2017 . Doctoral thesis . The Hear and Now: Sound and Technology in the Avant-Garde Poetics of Gertrude Stein, John Cage, and Caroline Bergvall . OUR Archive, University of Otago . 10523/7399.
    5. News: Lynley wins first writer fellowship . 22 September 2021 . Wairarapa Times-Age . 10 August 2009.
    6. Web site: Lynley Edmeades . Academy of New Zealand Literature . 22 September 2021.
    7. News: Kidd . Rob . Book awards surprise on Dunedin poet's birthday . 22 September 2021 . Otago Daily Times . 30 January 2020.
    8. Lacey . Clare . Hear Here . Landfall Review Online . 1 April 2020 . 22 September 2021.
    9. Web site: Landfall Essay Competition . University of Otago . 22 September 2021.
    10. Web site: Lynley Edmeades – Calm and . Best New Zealand Poems . 22 September 2021 . 2016.
    11. Web site: Lynley Edmeades – The Age of Reason . Best New Zealand Poems . 22 September 2021 . 2018.
    12. Web site: Dr Lynley Edmeades . University of Otago . 16 July 2024 . en . 10 March 2023.
    13. Web site: New Landfall editor named . Otago University Press . 22 September 2021 . 22 April 2021.
    14. News: Freeman . Lynn . Two Landfall editors look back – and forward . 22 September 2021 . Radio New Zealand . 18 July 2021.
    15. Web site: Landfall 242: Spring 2021 . University of Otago . Otago University Press . 22 September 2021.
    16. News: Fox . Rebecca . The dance of two artists . 13 May 2022 . Otago Daily Times . 12 May 2022.

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