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Glenn Colquhoun

On 7 April 2005 award-winning poet Glenn Colquhoun participated in a videoconference with five secondary schools from around New Zealand.

Watch clips of Glenn talking 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 Colquhoun is a doctor, poet and author of children’s picture books Uncle Glenn and Me and Uncle Glenn and Me Too. His first collection of poetry, 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.”

In 2004 he was awarded 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.

Participating Schools:

  • Forest View High School
  • Stratford High School
  • Darfield High School
  • Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Kaikohe
  • Morrinsville College

Web links

New Zealand Book Council – Glenn Colquhoun
http://www.nzbookcouncil.org.nz/writers/colquhoun.html

New Zealand Book Council
http://www.nzbookcouncil.org.nz

This videoconference was part of the WordSpace Series – an exciting new addition to the Writers in Schools programme, run in conjunction with CWA New Media and the New Zealand Book Council, with the support of the Todd Foundation.

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