Andrew Johnston (poet)

Andrew Johnston (poet)

"Andrew Johnston" (b. 1963) is an award-winning New Zealand poet and journalist who works as an editor for the International Herald Tribune in Paris.

He is associated with the "Wellington school" of poets, which prominently includes Bill Manhire and Jenny Bornholdt, and his verse has been published in "Meanjin" and "Scripsi" in Australia; "London Magazine" and "Verse" in the United Kingdom; and in "Sport" as well as other publications in New Zealand. [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/johnstonandrew.html] Web page titled "Andrew Johnston" at the New Zealand Book Council Web page, which quotes this information from "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature", edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (1998)", accessed October 10, 2007]

Life and career

Born in Upper Hutt, he received a bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of Otago and a master's degree in English Literature from the University of Auckland. In 1995 he represented New Zealand at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/vup/authorinfo/ajohnston.htm] Web page titled "Andrew Johnston" at the Victoria University Press Web site, accessed October 10, 2007]

Johnston edited the books page of (the now-defunct) "The Evening Post" from 1991-1996. ["Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English", Oxford University Press, 1997] In 1997 he moved to London and started working as a "casual sub-editor on the broadsheets", but after eight months moved to Normandy to teach English. When the job fell through, he commuted once a week across the Channel to work part-time for "The Observer" newspaper. [http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/kiwi-poet-returns-home-sol-by-andrew.html] Beattie, Graham, "Kiwi Poet Returns Home", interview/posting at "Beattie's Book Blog", dated February 22, 2007; the blog states that it is written by a "Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards", accessed October 10, 2007]

His marriage in 1998 resulted in his getting the right to work in France, and he applied for and received a job as an editor at the International Herald-Tribune in Paris. He moved there in 1999 with his wife, Christine. They have a son, Emile. Johnston also edits "The Page", a Web site that features poems and essays from elsewhere on the Internet. "I'd always wanted to find a web site that kept track of the best new writing about poetry, and couldn't find it, so I made it myself," Johnston said in a 2007 interview. "It's a lot of fun, though I find it hard attending to it regularly."

In 2007 he became the J.D. Stout Fellow at Victoria University. He is living in New Zealand for a year, writing a book about contemporary New Zealand poetry.

Awards and recognition

* Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary recipient, 1991
* "How to Talk", 1993, won the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1994 Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award.
* "Great Aunt", a poem, selected for the online collection Best New Zealand Poems 2002
* "Les Baillessats", a poem, selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2004

Works

Poetry:
* 2007: "Sol", Victoria University Press
* 2000: "Birds of Europe", Victoria University Press
* 1999: "The Open Window", Arc Publications (United Kingdom)
* 1996: "The Sounds", Victoria University Press
* 1993: "How to Talk", winer of the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1994 Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award, Victoria University Press

ee also

* Best New Zealand Poems series
* New Zealand literature

Notes

External links

* [http://andrewjohnston.org/ Andrew Johnston's Web site]
* [http://thepage.name/ "The Page", Johnston's digest of poems and essays from around the Web]
* [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/vup/authorinfo/ajohnston.htm Johnston Web page at Victoria University Press]
* [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-202166.html New Zealand Electronic Text Centre Web page for Andrew Johnston]


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