Ian Wedde
Ian Curtis Wedde ONZM (born 17 October 1946) is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator.
Biography
Born in Blenheim, New Zealand, Wedde lived in East Pakistan and England as a child before returning to New Zealand. He attended King's College and the University of Auckland, graduating with an MA in English in 1968.[2]
Wedde started publishing poetry in 1966. He travelled in Jordan and England in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and returned to New Zealand to live in Port Chalmers in 1972. In 1975 he moved to Wellington.
From 1983 to 1990 Wedde was the art critic for The Evening Post. He co-edited The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse with Harvey McQueen in the mid 1980s, and The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry with McQueen and Miriama Evans in 1989. He became the arts project manager at Te Papa in 1994 where he curated the opening art exhibition Parade that controversially paired McCahon's Northland Panels with a 1950s refrigerator.[3]
A collection of essays, Making Ends Meet, was published in 2005.[4]
Wedde was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to art and literature.[5]
Poetry collections
- 1971: Homage to Matisse
- 1974: Made Over
- 1975: Pathway to the Sea
- 1975: Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos
- 1977: Spells for Coming Out
- 1980: Castally: Poems 1973–1977
- 1984: Tales of Gotham City
- 1984: Georgicon
- 1987: Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems
- 1988: Tendering
- 1993: The Drummer
- 2001: The Commonplace Odes
- 2005: Three Regrets and A Hymn to Beauty
Fiction
- 1976: Dick Seddon’s Great Dive, winner of the Book Award for Fiction in 1977
- 1981: The Shirt Factory and Other Stories
- 1986: Symmes Hole
- 1988: Survival Arts
- 2005: Chinese Opera
- 2006: The Viewing Platform
- 2020: The Reed Warbler
Notes
- ^ Hewitson, Michele (15 June 2013). "Michele Hewitson Interview: Ian Wedde". New Zealand Herald.
- ^ Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, Oxford University Press, 1997.
- ^ "Parade". Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- ^ Making Ends Meet Essays and Talks 1992-2004 Archived 8 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2010". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
References
- New Zealand Book Council
- New Zealand electronic poetry centre
- New Zealand electronic text centre
External links
- Interview with Ian Wedde for Cultural Icons project. Audio.
- NZ 6-Seater: A Chapbook Curated by Ian Wedde. eChapbook.
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Preceded by | New Zealand Poet Laureate 2011–2013 | Succeeded by Vincent O'Sullivan |
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- 1960 Maurice Duggan
- 1961 John Caselberg
- 1962 R.A.K. Mason
- 1963 Maurice Shadbolt
- 1964 Maurice Gee
- 1965 Janet Frame
- 1966–67 James K. Baxter
- 1968 Ruth Dallas
- 1969 Warren Dibble
- 1970 O. E. Middleton
- 1971 Noel Hilliard
- 1972 Ian Wedde
- 1973 Graham Billing
- 1974 Hone Tuwhare
- 1975 Witi Ihimaera
- 1976 Sam Hunt
- 1977 Keri Hulme
- 1977–78 Roger Hall
- 1978 Peter Olds
- 1979 Michael A. Noonan
- 1980 Philip Temple
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- 1984 Brian Turner
- 1985–86 Cilla McQueen
- 1987 Robert Lord
- 1988 John Dickson
- 1989 Renée
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- 2004 Kate Duignan
- 2005–06 Catherine Chidgey
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- 2007 Laurence Fearnley
- 2008 Sue Wootton
- 2009 Michael Harlow
- 2010 Michele Powles
- 2011 Fiona Farrell
- 2012 Emma Neale
- 2013 David Howard
- 2014 Majella Cullinane
- 2015 Louise Wallace
- 2016 Victor Rodger
- 2017 Craig Cliff
- 2018 Rhian Gallagher
- 2019 Emily Duncan
- 2020 John Newton
- 2021 Becky Manawatu
- 2022 Albert Belz
- 2023 Kathryn van Beek
- 2024 Mikaela Nyman