Robin Hyde

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Publications & Biography

• A Bibliography of the Published Works of Robin Hyde (Iris G. Wilkinson, 1906-1939) (nzepc)
          Introduction and User Guide
          Full Chronological Bibliography
          Poems A-Z       
          Short Stories and Long Prose
• NZ Literature File at AU
• NZ Book Council Writer Files
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Derek Challis,  Introduction to The Book of Iris : A Life of Robin Hyde (AUP)

Notes for Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde
   Ed Michele Leggott. Auckland UP, 2003.
Notes for the poems have been published in an online version by Auckland University Press in association with the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc).  
    Notes for Young Knowledge (PDF: 460KB)

• Adelaide Wilkinson, nee Butler (1872-1944), Nelly, Robin Hyde's mother, May 1916.
• George Edward Wilkinson (1881-1944), Eddie, Robin Hyde's father, New Zealand Engineers, May 1916.
• Nelly Wilkinson and her daughters on the front porch of Laloma, 1919. From right to left, standing: Hazel Wentworth (b. 1903), Iris Guiver (b.1906), Edna Ruby Sircom (b. 1908). Ruth Saxon Louvain (b. 1914) on Nelly's knee.
• Iris Wilkinson with Gwen Hawthorn at Day's Bay, 1922.
• Robin Hyde on the Lyall Bay foreshore, Wellington, 1928.
• Robin Hyde with her son Derek Challis at Palmerston North, 1931.
• Robin Hyde in 1932 at the time of her lady editorship of the New Zealand Observer.
• Robin Hyde and her Australian friend Kay Brownlie (Brownie) in Sydney, January 1938.

On-line Works

• The Desolate Star (nzepc)
• The Conquerors and Other Poems (nzepc)
• Persephone in Winter (nzepc)
   
  
• The Secret Child: 7 poems (nzepc)
• Analysand: 13 poems  (nzepc)
• Exquisite Bond: 19 texts (HOW2)
• Excerpts from 'The Book of Nadath' fair copy manuscript (HOW2)
• Arachne (nzepc)
• Robin Hyde in China, 1938 (nzepc)
• Incidence (Best NZ Poems 2003)
  
  

Prose by Robin Hyde

• 6 letters to Eileen Duggan, ed. Lisa Docherty (HOW2)
• Author's Foreword to The Godwits Fly (nzepc)
• The Flying-Off Place (1 September 1937) (nzepc)
• They have said (nzepc)

About Robin Hyde

• Susan Ash, A New Vantage Point. Review of Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (Jacket 25)
• Derek Challis, The Fate of the Iris Wilkinson Manuscripts (nzepc)
• Megan Clayton, Thoroughly Modern Malory: Robin Hyde and Malorian Desire (nzepc)
• Lisa Docherty, 'Do I Speak Well?' The Letters of Robin Hyde (HOW2)
• Mary Edmond-Paul,  Robin Hyde (Iris Wilkinson), 1906-1939 (Kotare vol. 7, no. 1)
• Alison Hunt, Dream Brothers: Utopian vision in Robin Hyde’s Nadath and Dmitry Merezhkovsky’s Akhnaton (nzepc)
• Alison Hunt, Angel-guarded liar in a pleasant, quiet room: the experiences of writer Robin Hyde in the New Zealand mental health system of the 1930s (nzepc)
• Michele Leggott, Opening the Archive: Robin Hyde, Eileen Duggan and the Persistence of Record (nzepc/AUP)
• Michele Leggott, Robin Hyde: The Victory Hymn 1935-1995  (nzepc/Holloway)
• Michele Leggott, Taking of each what is needed: Robin Blaser, Robin Hyde, Blue Irises and a Famous Variable (nzepc/Talonbooks)
• Michele Leggott, from Introduction to Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (Jacket 25)
• Bronwyn Lloyd, Unearthing Stella Benson (The Imaginary Museum)
• Robyn Lendrum, Looking for a home in this world: Robin Hyde’s ‘placename’ poems 1937-39 (nzepc)
• Mary Paul, Robin Hyde: A Political Reading (HOW2)
• Patrick Sandbrook, Introduction to The Godwits Fly 2001 edition (HOW2/AUP)

Audio

Recorded by Helen Morse, July 2003.

• Incidence 
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• The English Rider
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     Houses by the Sea : The Beaches

• I     Not here our sands
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• II   Island Bay, Orongorongo
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• III  An absent face
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• IV  Sands, sands of my father's town
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• V   This is my secret
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• VI  Close under here
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• VII Cool and certain
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Archive

• Ron Holloway, Robin Hyde and The Spotted Dog: 2 images of ms (nzepc)
• The House of Woman: 11 images of ms (nzepc)
• Hyde Papers 97/1

Links

• HOW2 #6 Fall 2001
• Robin Hyde and New Zealand Modernism, coordinated by Michele Leggott  and Ann Vickery (HOW2)
• New Portrait of a Prescient Writer (Marsden Fund Newsletter)
• Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde (Marsden Update Apr 2004)
  
  

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Last updated 22 September, 2004