Dinah Hawken

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Publications & Biography

• Read NZ | Te Pou Muramura - Writer's File

• Julia Morrison, cover and illustrations from Small Stories of Devotion.

On-line Works

Text from Dinah Hawken, Oh there you are tui! New and selected poems (Victoria UP, 2001) except where otherwise stated. The author and nzepc gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of Victoria University Press.

From It has no sound and is blue (VUP, 1987)

• Choosing Horses
• Balance
• The Facts
• Talking to a Tree Fern (nzpoetryshelf) 

From Small Stories of Devotion (VUP, 1991)

• The Second Quarter: A long line of surf is breaking, and breaking
• The harbour is hallucinating (NZETC/Sport 2)
• The harbour is disappearing (NZETC/Sport 4)
• The harbour is a whipping boy (NZETC/Sport 7)

From Water, Leaves, Stones (VUP, 1995)

• Water, Women and Birds Gather
• A New Word, Sunset, Floating (NZETC/Sport 10)
• Hope   

From The Little Book of Bitching (Very Cross Books/Sport 1998)

• On the River After Months of Bitching

From Oh there you are tui! (VUP, 2001)

• 365 x 30 (Best NZ Poems 2001)    
• Where We Say We Are
• The Sound of Places and Names

Since 2002 Dinah Hawken has been the convenor of a creative writing workshop at the IIML called Writing the Landscape and during 2004 she was the poet in residence at the Wellington Botanic Garden under the Poets in Workplaces scheme, initiated by the NZ Poetry Society.

Poems since 2002

• Thinking about Forgiveness
• The Company of Stones
• Helping Hands
• Leaving Footprints
• The lake, the bloke and the bike (Best NZ Poems)

• Introduction to Where We Say We Are (nzepc/Whitireia)
• Diary Notes: The Softening of Steel (nzepc/Landfall 205)
  

About Dinah Hawken

• Douglas Barbour, A Short Note on Dinah Hawken and Michele Leggott (nzepc/NeWest Press)
• Michael Hulse, 'When God died: six contemporary New Zealand poets.' (NZETC/Sport 8)
• Andrew Johnston, 'Entertaining possibilities : six contemporary New Zealand poets'. (Johnston/Meanjin)
• Elizabeth Coleman, 'Dinah Hawken - Ocean and Stone'. (Takahe)
• Janet Wilson, ‘To sing the last word.’ Review of Oh there you are tui! (Selected Poems) by Dinah Hawken. (nzepc/NZ Books)

Audio

• The Sound of Places and Names (mp3; Braeburn Recording Studio, Wellington)
• Tidal  (Walk with Me: McCahon Series of events at Te Papa, 2014)

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Last updated 16 December, 2004