Sam Hunt

Sam Hunt (born in Castor Bay Auckland on 4 July 1946) is a New Zealand performance poet. [ [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/huntsam.html HUNT, Sam ] ] He was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland and has been referred to as New Zealand's best-known poet. [ [http://www.hazard.co.nz/samhunt.html Making Tracks - Hazard Online ] ]

Sam Hunt is known for links between his works. An example of this is when one compares the poem, "Porirua Friday Night", with one of his later works "Girl with Black Eye in Grocer's Shop". Both poems tell the story of a woman which is the same woman in both poems, and how her dreams are slowly crushed over time. This was the first step toward her crushed spirits leading to her strong will to grow up quickly.

An annual literature competition has been named after him at St. Peter's College in Auckland.

Published works

*"From Bottle Creek: Selected Poems 1967–69" (1969)
*"Bracken Country" (1971)
*"From Bottle Creek" (1972)
*"Roadsong Paekakariki" (1973)
*"South Into Winter: Poems and Roadsongs" (1973)
*"Time To Ride" (1975)
*"Drunkard’s Garden" (1977)
*"Poems for the Eighties : New Poems" (1979)
*"Collected Poems 1963–1980" (1980)
*"Running Scared" (1982)
*"Approaches To Paremata" (1985)
*"Selected Poems" (1987)
*"Making Tracks" (1991)
*"Naming the Gods" (1992)
*"Down the Backbone" (1995)
*"Roaring Forties" (1997)

References

External links

* [http://www.samhunt.co.nz/ Sam Hunt's official website]
* [http://tv3.co.nz/News/EntertainmentNews/SamHuntonpoetrytoday/tabid/418/articleID/31510/Default.aspx Sam Hunt on Poetry Today]
* [http://citylibrary.pncc.govt.nz/recent-events.html Sam Hunt visiting Palmerston North City Library]
* [http://bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/huntsam.html Sam Hunt on the NZ Book Council website]
* [http://www.speakers.co.nz/samhunt.html Sam Hunt on the NZ Speakers website]
* [http://library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/nzp/nzlit2/hunt.htm Sam Hunt on the University of Auckland Library website]