James Norcliffe | Bernard Gadd | Ernest J Berry | Patricia Prime
James Norcliffe
James has taught English in Christchurch, China, and Brunei. His poetry publications have included:
The Sportsman and Other Poems, 1986
Letters to Dr Dee and Other Poems, 1993, was shortlisted for the 1994 NZ Book Awards.
A Kind of Kingdom (1998).
Rat Tickling (2003)
along Blueskin Road (2005)
His latest collection Villon in Millerton will be published by AUP in June this year.
In 1993 James also published a collection of short stories, The Chinese Interpreter, based on cultural clashes he observed while teaching English at Nankai University.
James has written novels for young adults: Under the Rotunda (1991), Penguin Bay (1993), The Emerald Encyclopaedia (1994) - honour award recipient at the 1995 Aim Children's Book Awards - and The Carousel Experiment (1995). A Kind of Kingdom was published in 1998, and The Assassin of Gleam in 2006.
With Bernadette Hall he edited Big Sky, A Collection of Canterbury Poems in 2002 and with Alan Bunn he has edited the annual Redraft series of anthologies of writing by young people, most recently Cupid on a Friday Night (2005) and Tennis with Raw Eggs (2006).
He is the poetry editor for Takahe and poetry editor for the Christchrch Press.
Awards include the Lilian Ida Smith Award 1990, first prize in the NZ Poetry Society's 1992 International Competition (first equal with Leonard Lambert) and outright winner in 1993. In 1994 he was asked to judge the competition, probably to stop him from achieving a hat trick. In 2000 James was the Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University, and he participated in the Tasmanian Writers' Island of Residencies programme in 2006, residing at the Hobart Writer's Cottage. James most recently completed a residency at the 2006 Iowa International Writers' Programme.
James currently lives in Christchurch
Source: NZ Book Council http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/norcliffe.html; updated by James Norcliffe.
Bernard was a high school English teacher, then Polytechnic ESOL tutor, now retired. His work has been published extensively in most NZ literary magazines and some overseas and on-line literary magazines, and has been included in several international anthologies. He is an anthologist, past co-editor of Kokako, and a small press publisher. He has written and published much literary and learn-to-read material for multi-ethnic and working class schools. He won the frst Bravado poetry contest in 2004, the 2005 Takahe cultural essay contest, and short story contests. He will be featured poet in the first issue of Poetry NZ this year. Bernard judged the junior haiku contest for the Poetry Society in 2005.
Publications:
Poetry
Oracle Bones (Hazard Press, 1992)
Pity Mr Hash (Hallard Press, 1995)
Too Right Mate, with John O'Connor (Hallard Press, 1996)
Stepping Off From Northland (Sudden Valley Press, 1997)
Shadow-patches, with Catherine Mair and Janice Bostok (Hallard Press, 1998)
1 imagines serafim (Hallard Press, 1999)
signs of the new right (Hallard Press, 2000)
prognostications of the apricot (Poet's Group, 2000)
Our Bay of Ensigns & Other 'Race' Relations (HeadworX Publishers, 2001)
in press: End of the snap shots, selected and new poems.
Fiction
Laya (Te Ropu Kahurangi, 1985)
Dare Not Fail (Te Ropu Kahurangi, 1987)
Blood of Tainui (Brick Row / Te Ropu Kahurangi, 1990)
Just like you said it would be & other stories (Brick Row / Hallard Press, 1992)
Edited
Pacific Voices (1977)
Other Voices (Brick Row, 1989)
Catching the Light (Brick Row/ Hallard Press, 1992)
Real Fire, poems of the 60s/70s (Square One Press, 2001)
The Unbelievable Lightness of Eggs, light poems and verse, by T Beyer, B Strang, J Preston, J O'Connor, F Macmillan, B Gadd (2006)
Plays
Generations, plays for young people, with David Hill, The Home Dreaming Club, (Longman Paul 1993)
Bone City, a play for teenagers (Longman Paul 1995)
Last Javelin of the Romans, a play for teenagers (Hallard Press, 1997)
Warriors from the Lord Wulah, a play for teenagers (Hallard Press, 1997)
Rushie's Rush Chow Down, a play for teenagers (Hallard Press, 1998)
Bernard currently lives in Auckland
Source: HeadworX http://headworx.eyesis.co.nz/author/gaddb.php; updated by Bernard Gadd
See also http://www.styluspoetryjournal.com February 2003 Archived Interview
A life-member of New Zealand Poetry Society and the British Haiku Society, Ernest J Berry has won countless international haiku awards, hundreds of which have been published in periodicals and websites worldwide. His work has been recited on U.S., Canadian, Yugoslav and Irish radio, translated into at least 14 languages, and appears in some haiku instruction books. He has judged numerous haiku competitions, initiated an 'haiku in schools' programme, convened dozens of workshops, conventions, anthology launches etc. and is founder/convenor of Windrift & Picton Poets.
Berry, a perennial 'also-ran' in mainstream poetry competitions. was born in Christchurch in 1929 and retired to Picton in 1994.
Patricia recently retired from teaching and now works part-time and is also involved in teaching children in the reading recovery programme at her local school.
Patricia is co-editor of the haiku magazine Kokako, reviews editor of the Australian online magazine Stylus, and reviews for New Hope International (UK) and the Indian magazine, Poet. She is on the panel of judges for the Seashells Game in the haiku magazine Presence (UK), and is on the panel of judges of contests for the traditional poetry magazine MetVerse Muse (India).
Besides reviewing, writing poetry and articles, she also writes the traditional Japanese forms of haiku, tanka, renga, linked verse, cheritas and haibun, sometimes in collaboration with other poets. Patricia has won several awards for her haiku, tanka and haibun.
She has published several books of collaborative poetry: Sweet Penguins, The Place Where, Every Drop Stone Pebble (a collaboration of haiku with two other poets) and Duet (haiku with an Indian poet). Patricia has published a collection of poetry, Accepting Summer, and has edited an anthology of new and established writers from New Zealand called Something Between Breaths.
Patricia has produced many interviews with poets and editors and written several articles on the work of other poets, including the Canadian poet, Michael Ondaatje, and the French poet, Arthur Rimbaud. Her most recent publications are three chapbooks in collaboration with fellow poet Catherine Mair: East Cape, based on a journey around the Eastern Bay of Plenty, a collection of tanka Stolen Time and a collection of haibun, Morning Glory.
Patricia currently lives in Auckland.
