Glenn Colquhoun
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Dr. Glenn Colquhoun, born in Papakura, Auckland in 1964, is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner
.
. He lives in Waikawa Beach with his young daughter Olive.
Colquhoun's first book of poems, The Art of Walking Upright, was published in 1999. It has been said the book is a love letter to the people of Te Tii, the Northland town where he was living at that time. An Explanation of Poetry to My Father was published and written in 2001. Written in the middle of his work on Playing God, the book was a distraction for Colquhoun from that work. The poems are an explanation of why the son of a builder would go and write poetry. Playing God, Colquhuoun’s third book, was published in 2002 to critical acclaim and popular support. It has sold over 10,000 copies in New Zealand and in 2007 was published in the UK. How We Fell (2006) is a collection of love poems written to Colquhoun’s ex-wife. It is the candid story of a ten-year relationship.
His most recent work, North South (illustrated by Nigel Brown
, 2009), is a sequence of poems entwining aspects of Irish mythology
with aspects of Maori mythology
.
for Poetry and Readers’ Choice in 2003. In 2006, Playing God was awarded a New Zealand Booksellers Platinum Award for selling 5000 copies. Glenn won the Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters in 2004. His first book, The Art of Walking Upright, won the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry.
reissued 2007
General practitioner
A general practitioner is a medical practitioner who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education for all ages and both sexes. They have particular skills in treating people with multiple health issues and comorbidities...
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Life
He practices medicine on the Kapiti CoastKapiti Coast
The Kapiti Coast is the name of the section of the coast of the south-western North Island of New Zealand that is north of Wellington and opposite Kapiti Island. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Wellington Regional Council...
. He lives in Waikawa Beach with his young daughter Olive.
Colquhoun's first book of poems, The Art of Walking Upright, was published in 1999. It has been said the book is a love letter to the people of Te Tii, the Northland town where he was living at that time. An Explanation of Poetry to My Father was published and written in 2001. Written in the middle of his work on Playing God, the book was a distraction for Colquhoun from that work. The poems are an explanation of why the son of a builder would go and write poetry. Playing God, Colquhuoun’s third book, was published in 2002 to critical acclaim and popular support. It has sold over 10,000 copies in New Zealand and in 2007 was published in the UK. How We Fell (2006) is a collection of love poems written to Colquhoun’s ex-wife. It is the candid story of a ten-year relationship.
His most recent work, North South (illustrated by Nigel Brown
Nigel Brown
Nigel Roderick Brown ONZM is a New Zealand painter living in coastal Southland whose work is mainly about the history of New Zealand and its natives. As a young boy he spent much of his life growing up in a packing shed in Tauranga...
, 2009), is a sequence of poems entwining aspects of Irish mythology
Irish mythology
The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branch and the Historical Cycle. There are...
with aspects of Maori mythology
Maori mythology
Māori mythology and Māori traditions are the two major categories into which the legends of the Māori of New Zealand may usefully be divided...
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Awards
His third book, Playing God, won a Montana New Zealand Book AwardMontana New Zealand Book Awards
The New Zealand Post Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, as a merge of the two previously most relevant awards in New Zealand: the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards...
for Poetry and Readers’ Choice in 2003. In 2006, Playing God was awarded a New Zealand Booksellers Platinum Award for selling 5000 copies. Glenn won the Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters in 2004. His first book, The Art of Walking Upright, won the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry.
Published poetry
reissued 2007
Other works
- Uncle Glenn and Me, 1999 (children’s picturebook) (children’s picturebook) (children’s picturebook) (essay)
External links
- Distinguished Alumni Award at the University of Auckland