Janet Newman
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Janet Newman is a poet and farmer based in the Horowhenua District of New Zealand.[1] She has published two poetry books called Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology and Unseasoned Campaigner, both published by Otago University Press.[2][3][4] She won the 2015 New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition and the 2017 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems.[5][6] She has written a doctoral thesis on the Traditions of Ecopoetry in Aotearoa/New Zealand at Massey University.[7] Her book, Unseasoned Campaigner, won the 2022 New Zealand Society of Authors Heritage Book Award for Poetry. She was also a runner-up in the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Awards.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Poet - and farmer - Janet Newman". RNZ. August 1, 2021. Retrieved September 30, 2026.
- ↑ Green, Paula (March 20, 2025). "Poetry Shelf review, interview and readings: Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology". NZ Poetry Shelf. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- ↑ Green, Paula (December 1, 2021). "Poetry Shelf review: Janet Newman's Unseasoned Campaigner". NZ Poetry Shelf. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- ↑ "What does it mean to be human in an often inhumane world?". NZ Herald. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- ↑ "Major prize for 'Tender' poems to a father". Massey University. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- ↑ "Janet Newman". www.ketebooks.co.nz. Retrieved September 30, 2026.
- ↑ "Local ties to nature revealed in ecopoetry PhD". www.massey.ac.nz. Retrieved September 30, 2026.
- ↑ "Janet Newman - Otago University Press". Retrieved October 2, 2026.