Barry Mitcalfe

Barry Mitcalfe (1930-1986) was a New Zealand poet, editor, and peace activist. Born March 31, 1930, in Wellington, New Zealand, Mitcalfe studied at Victoria University of Wellington, where he received a Diploma in Education in 1962, and a Bachelor of Arts (with honors) in 1963. [Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC] . In the 1960s and early 1970s he was a leader of the New Zealand movement against the Vietnam War, and co-edited several booklets on the issue. [Elsie Locke, "Peace People: A History of Peace Activities in New Zealand", Christchurch, 1992, pp.193, 201.] After the war ended he became a leader of the New Zealand anti-nuclear movement. [Locke, p.290.] In 1981 he was a writer-in-residence at the South Australia College of Advanced Education, and in 1982 held a Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing at the University of Canterbury. [http://www.engl.canterbury.ac.nz/people/writer.shtml]

Published works

*"Thirty Poems", Hurricane House, 1960.

*"Poetry of the Maori", Paul's Book Arcade, 1961.

*"Salvation Jones", Torbay, 1962.

*"Nine New Zealanders", Whitcombe & Tombs, 1963.

*"The Long Holiday", Whitcombe & Tombs, 1964.

*"Polynesian Studies", Wellington Teachers' Training College, 1964.

*"Writing: poems", Wellington Teachers College Arts Council, 1969.

*"Maori Poetry: The Singing Word", Victoria University Press, 1974.

*"Moana", Seven Seas, 1975.

*"Migrant", Caveman Press, 1975.

*"I Say, Wait for Me", (short stories), Outrigger, 1976.

*"Maori", Coromandel, 1980;

*"The Square Gang", Faber, 1981.

*"The North Sun, Moon, and Stars", Coromandel, 1982.

*"Beach", Coromandel, 1982.

*"Northland", Coromandel, 1984.

*"Look to the Land", Coromandel, 1986.

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