1. Allen Curnow (1911)

New Zealand Poet

Twentieth-century poet, journalist, and satirist who is best remembered for his Book of New Zealand Verse. His other works include Whim-Wham, A Small Room With Large Windows, and The Loop...

2. Hone Tuwhare (1922)

New Zealand Poet

Twentieth-century New Zealand poet known for Something Nothing, Deep River Talk, and other works. He was a 2003 recipient of the prestigious New Zealand Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement.

3. Bill Manhire (1946)

New Zealand Poet

Poet, professor, author, and first Poet Laureate of New Zealand. His numerous poetry collections include How to Take Off Your Clothes at the Picnic, Milky Way Bar, and What to...

4. Cilla McQueen (1949)

New Zealand Poet

Priscilla Muriel Cilla McQueen is a poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.

5. Leigh Robert Davis (1955)

New Zealand Poet

Leigh Robert Davis was a New Zealand-based writer who created long poems and large-scale mixed-media projects in which he worked with painters designers and composers. He was known for the...

6. Jenny Bornholdt (1960)

New Zealand Poet

Jennifer Mary Bornholdt is an award-winning New Zealand poet and anthologist.

7. Kevin Ireland (1933)

New Zealand Poet

Kevin Mark Ireland is a New Zealand poet short story writer novelist and librettist.

8. Kendrick Smithyman (Unknow)

New Zealand Poet

Kendrick Smithyman was an award-winning New Zealand poet and one of the most prolific of that nation's poets in the 20th century.

9. Iain Sharp (Unknow)

New Zealand Poet

Iain Sharp born in 1953 is a New Zealand poet and critic.

10. Alan Loney (Unknow)

New Zealand Poet

Alan Perress Loney is a writer poet editor publisher and letterpress printer. His work has been published by University and private presses in New Zealand Australia and North America. His...

11. Riemke Ensing (Unknow)

New Zealand Poet

Riemke Ensing born 1939 in Groningen The Netherlands is a New Zealand poet. She immigrated to New Zealand in 1951 at age twelve. She studied at Ardmore Teachers' Training College...

12. A. R. D. Fairburn (1904)

New Zealand Poet

Arthur Rex Dugard Rex Fairburn was a New Zealand poet who was born and died in Auckland. He attended Auckland Grammar School where he first met R. A. K. Mason...

13. Jessie Mackay (1864)

New Zealand Poet

Jessie Mackay was a New Zealand poet. Her Scottish parents were the shepherd Robert Mackay and his wife Elizabeth Mackay. She went to Christchurch to train as a teacher and...

14. Craig Ireson (1976)

New Zealand Poet

Craig Ireson is a Wellington-based New Zealand performance poet also known as The Karaoke Poet. Ireson is the organiser of the Wellington Word Collective a community oriented collective of Wellington...

15. Christodoulos Moisa (Unknow)

New Zealand Poet

Christodoulos Evangeli Georgiou Moisa is a New Zealand poet artist photographer writer essayist and art teacher.

16. Niel Wright (1933)

New Zealand Poet

Niel Wright is a New Zealand poet literary critic bibliographer publisher and cultural and political commentator. His major piece of work is his epic poem The Alexandrians published in 120...

17. William Hart-Smith (1911)

New Zealand Poet

Hart-Smith was a New Zealand/Australian poet who was born in Tunbridge Wells Kent England. His family moved to New Zealand in 1924. He had about seven years of formal schooling...

18. Glenn Colquhoun (1964)

New Zealand Poet

Dr. Glenn Colquhoun born in Papakura Auckland in 1964 is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner.

19. Meg Campbell (1937)

New Zealand Poet

Meg Campbell was a female New Zealand poet. Campbell was born and raised in Palmerston North New Zealand and attended Marsden Collegiate Wellington where she studied acting. However she discontinued...

20. Te Rauparaha (1760)

New Zealand Poet

Te Rauparaha was a Māori rangatira and war leader of the Ngāti Toa tribe who took a leading part in the Musket Wars. He was influential in the original sale...

21. Rob Allan (Unknow)

New Zealand Poet

Rob Allan is a New Zealand poet. He won the PEN Best First Book of Poetry award in 1992 for his book Karitane Postcards and has received multiple grants from...

22. Tusiata Avia (1966)

New Zealand Poet

Tusiata Avia is a New Zealand page and performance poet born to a Samoan father and Palagi mother.

23. Elizabeth Smither (1941)

New Zealand Poet

Elizabeth Edwina Smither MNZM is a New Zealand poet and writer. She worked as a librarian.

24. Eric Beach (Unknow)

New Zealand Poet

Eric Beach born 1947 is a New Zealand and Australian poet playwright and short story writer.

25. Elizabeth Nannestad (Unknow)

New Zealand Poet

Elizabeth Nannestad is a New Zealand poet.

26. Mark Pirie (1974)

New Zealand Poet

Mark Pirie is a New Zealand poet writer literary critic anthologist publisher and editor. He is best known for his Generation X New Zealand anthology The NeXt Wave which included...

27. Miriam Barr (1982)

New Zealand Poet

Miriam Barr is a New Zealand page and performance poet. She is one of the original members of The Literatti an Auckland-based performance poetry group started in 2006.

28. Michele Leggott (Unknow)

New Zealand Poet

Michele Joy Leggott MNZM is a New Zealand poet and Professor of English at the University of Auckland. She was born in Stratford New Zealand and received her secondary education...

29. Jacqueline Sturm (1927)

New Zealand Poet

Jacqueline Cecilia Sturm also known as Jacqueline Baxter and Te Kare Papuni was a poet and writer of short stories. She was born in Opunake Taranaki New Zealand and was...

30. Louis Johnson (poet) (1924)

New Zealand Poet

Louis Albert Johnson was a New Zealand poet.

31. Peter Jacobson (poet) (Unknow)

New Zealand Poet

Peter Jacobson was a New Zealand poet.

32. Ruth Gilbert (poet) (1917)

New Zealand Poet

Ruth Gilbert ONZM is a New Zealand poet whose work has been widely published in New Zealand and Commonwealth countries. She was born in Greytown and educated at Hamilton High...

33. John Barr (poet) (1809)

New Zealand Poet

John Barr of Craigilee was a Scottish-New Zealand poet.

34. John Dennison (1978)

New Zealand Poet

John Sebastian Dennison is a New Zealand poet as well as a poetry scholar who has published on the poetry of New Zealand poet James K. Baxter.

35. Anne French (1872)

New Zealand Poet

Anne French is a New Zealand editor and poet.

36. Brian Turner (New Zealand poet) (1944)

New Zealand Poet

Brian Lindsay Turner is a New Zealand poet and author. He played hockey for New Zealand in the 1960s; senior cricket in Dunedin and Wellington; and was a veteran road...

37. Vincent O'Sullivan (New Zealand poet) (1937)

New Zealand Poet

Vincent Gerard O’Sullivan DCNZM is a New Zealand poet short story writer novelist playwright critic and editor. The son of Timothy O'Sullivan and Myra O'Sullivan O'Sullivan was the youngest of...

38. Alison Wong (1960)

New Zealand Poet

Alison Wong is a New Zealand poet and novelist of Chinese heritage. Her background in mathematics comes across in her poetry not as a subject but in the careful formulation...

39. Andrew Johnston (poet) (1963)

New Zealand Poet

Andrew Johnston is an award-winning New Zealand poet and journalist who lives in Paris. He is associated with the Wellington school of poets which prominently includes Bill Manhire and Jenny...

40. Sam Hunt (poet) (1946)

New Zealand Poet

Samuel Percival Maitland Sam Hunt CNZM QSM is a New Zealand poet especially known for his public performances of poetry not only his own poems but also the poems of...