Miscellany | Writers | New Zealand
New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
Saige Vendome England | Paula Green | Mark Young |
Saige Vendome England is a New Zealand based writer who has travelled and landed home in the seaside village of New Brighton.
She's lived and written in other landing places from Paris to Eastern Europe, the Pacific Islands, and the Middle East. In her
former life as a journalist she was published by the British Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and
United Press International
during stints of revolution-hopping in conflict zones. As a fiction writer, Saige graduated from the International Institute in
Modern Letters (IIML) in Wellington with an MA in Creative Writing.
Paula Green
is a poet, writer, reviewer and anthologist. She has written and edited a great many collections of poetry, including several for
children. She has also published two novels for children, The Terrible Night and Little Tales of Hedgehog and Goat.
Her poetry
collection The Letter Box Cat and other poems won Children’s Choice at the New Zealand Post Book Awards, and she has won a number
of Storylines Notable Book Awards for her books for children.
Paula is also the creator of the popular NZ Poetry Shelf and
NZ Poetry Box blogs, championing poetry in Aotearoa New Zealand and
nurturing its poets young and old, emerging and celebrated. In 2017 Paula received the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry and was
made Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for Services to Literature and Poetry.(source |
Penguin Publishers)
Mark Young
was born and raised in New Zealand. His visual poetry often enacts language as a field with many possible paths. Playful and
allusive in both his vispo and text-based poetry, Young engages words as both sources and objects. In Jacket, Nicholas Manning
admired “what Mark Young … is able to reconcile: form and occasion, procedurality and experience, visual constructivism and sonic play.”
Young is the author of more than a dozen poetry collections, including Genji Monogatari (2010) and
Pelican Dreaming: Poems 1959-2008 (2008). With Jean Vengua, Young edited The First Hay(na)ku Anthology (2005) and
The Hay(na)ku Anthology, Volume II (2008). Young’s work has been included in the anthology Big Smoke:
New Zealand Poems 1960-1975 (2000). More recent books include Mineral Terpsichore, from gradient books of
Finland, & The Chorus of the Sphinxes, from Moria Books in Chicago.