Octagon Poetry Collective's monthly reading

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David Eggleton was a co-editor of Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand, published by Massey University Press in 2024. His Respirator: A Laureate Collection 2019 -2022 was published by Otago University Press in 2023; and his Lifting the Island: Poems was published in Pasadena, California by Red Hen Press in 2025. He received the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry in 2016 and was the Aotearoa New Zealand Poet Laureate between 2019 and 2022. His book The Conch Trumpet won the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. He lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
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Born in 1959, David Howard co-founded the literary journal Takahē (1989) and the Canterbury Poets Collective (1990) in his home town, Christchurch. He was the editor of A Place To Go On From: the Collected Poems of Iain Lonie (Otago University Press, 2015), and the author of Rāwaho: the Completed Poems (Cold Hub Press, 2022).

His work has been supported by the Robert Burns Fellowship at Otago University (2013); the Otago Wallace Residency (2014); a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Prague (2016); the Ursula Bethell Residency at Canterbury University (2016); the Writers’ House Residency, Pazin, Croatia (2017); the Robert Lord Writer's Cottage Residency (2018), the Grimshaw Sargeson Residency (2018); and a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Ulyanovsk (2019). He is currently collaborating with the Chinese composer Gao Ping on a chamber opera.
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Your Collective committee:
Jackson
Mac MacDonald
Jasmine Taylor
Nicola Thorstensen
Ben Wilmot
Sophia Wilson

[David Eggleton's photo by A Hawkins]