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Biography Kay McKenzie Cooke (1953-) was born in
Southland of Kati Mamoe, Ngati Kahungunu, Cockney and Northern Irish descent.
She lives in Dunedin, where she writes (almost) full-time, occasionally relief
teaching in the early childhood sector. Her debut collection feeding the
dogs (Otago University Press, 2002) won the Jessie MacKay Award for Best
First Book of Poetry in the 2003 Montana Awards. She writes that this work
explores ‘the sense of isolation that I felt living on a farm in Otama Valley,
with tussock-covered hills and no shops and bus trips to school.’
Bibliography
feeding the dogs (Otago University Press, 2002)
View of a Skipping
Stone: Fusebox 2 (Rattapallax Press, 2003)
Poems
© Kay McKenzie Cooke 2004
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