Louis Johnson (poet)
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Life
He graduated from Wellington Teachers’ Training CollegeVictoria University of Wellington Faculty of Education
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From 1968 to 1980, Johnson lived overseas and traveled widely, with an extended stay in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
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Johnson worked as a schoolteacher, journalist, and editor of several publications, including the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook (1951–64), Numbers (1954–60), and Antipodes New Writing (1987).
Awards
- 1975 New Zealand Book Award for poetry for Fires and Patterns
- 1976 Montana New Zealand Book Award for PoetryMontana New Zealand Book Award for PoetryThe Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry is one category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards, given out annually. The award carries a $5,000 prize for each winner of the category awards, including the award for poetry....
Works
- Stanza and Scene (1945)
- Roughshod Among the Lillies, (1951)
- The Sun Among the Ruins (1951)
- New Worlds for Old (1957).
- Onion (1972)
- Winter Apples (1984)