Award-winning poet Glenn Colquhoun
DATE: Wednesday 13 October 2004
TIME: 10.30 - 11.30am
Glenn Colquhoun is a poet and is also the author of a children's picture book called Uncle Glenn and Me.
In 2004 he was awarded the prestigious literary award the Prize in Modern Letters. Glenn has also won numerous awards for his poetry, including winning both the Poetry Category and 2003 Readers' Choice Award at the 2003 Montana Book Awards for his collection, Playing God.
Glenn also works as a doctor.
Learn about:
- The challenges and realities of being a working author
- What inspires Glenn to write
- The creative process
- Sustaining creativity
- What separates his best work from his worst.
Glenn is looking forward to talking to you about his writing and his career as an author, and answering any questions you might have. He will also read some of his works.
TO REGISTER FOR THIS VIDEO-CONFERENCE CONTACT jane@cwa.co.nz BY Friday 8th October. Telephone: (04) 802 3478.
About Glenn
Glenn Colquhoun has written three books of poetry, The Art of Walking Upright, which won the Jessie Mackay Award for the Best First Book of Poetry in 2000, as well as An Explanation of Poetry to My Father published in 2001 and a recently published collection of medical poems entitled Playing God.
The Art of Walking Upright (1999), is "about belonging, discovering a place to stand, finding what it means to be Pakeha, and what it means to be human."
He is also the author of a children's picture book called Uncle Glenn and Me and has also published essays.
Colquhoun was a convenor for the 2004 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
He also works as a doctor in Northland.