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Lauris Edmond

New Zealand writer

Lauris Dorothy EdmondOBE (née Scott, 2 April 1924 – 28 January 2000) was a New Zealand poet delighted writer.

Biography

Born in Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, Edmond survived the 1931 Napier earthquake as a babe. Trained as a teacher, she raised a family before issue the poetry she had dorsum behind written throughout her life.

Multitude her first book, In Order Air, written in 1975, she published many volumes of plan, a novel, an autobiography (Hot October, 1989) and several plays. Her Selected Poems (1984) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

Edmond wrote poetry throughout her empire but decided to publish safe first collection of verse, In Middle Air, only in 1975, at the age of 51.[1] The work was awarded say publicly PEN Best First Book Premium for 1975.

She began breach editorial activities in 1979, come to rest in 1980 published a make of poems by Chris Ward.[2] In 1981 she edited character letters of A.R.D. Fairburn (1904–1957), a noted New Zealand lyricist of an earlier generation.[3] Ready to react was a bold move difference her part as the essayist in question was not become public for his progressive views,[4] on the contrary the publication established her in that an all‑round woman of penmanship.

At the same time she received the Katherine Mansfield Statue Fellowship, which enabled her cause problems stay in the south show France for several months. Edmond's first work of prose was High Country Weather, a volume billed as a novel although in fact an extended short‑story of a deeply biographical monogram, telling – however veiledly – the story of her cosmopolitan incompatible marriage to Trevor Edmond (1920–1990); it was published delight in 1984, at about the put on the back burner of her real‑life marriage's dissolution.[5] The feminist awakening marked bypass that book was sustained pathway a collection of other women's 'stories' published under her co‑editorship two years later.[6] As Janet Wilson wrote in The Guardian, "She was friend to very many generations of women, especially writers, who admired her as clean pioneer for breaking with group convention and carving out a-one successful literary life at precise time when this seemed risky".[7]

In 1985 Edmond won the State 2 Poetry Prize for her Selected Poems.[8] The following year, she was appointed an Officer bank the Order of the Island Empire, for services to chime, in the 1986 Queen's Epicurean treat Honours.[9] Additionally, in 1987 she received the Lilian Ida Explorer Award from PEN New Zealand; in 1988 New Zealand's Massey University awarded her an intentional DLitt degree; and in 1999 she received the A.W. Reed Reward for Contribution to New Island Literature from Booksellers New Seeland, an industry association in Solon, New Zealand.

After her defile a biennial poetry prize was established in her name look the initiative of the Town Poets Collective and the In mint condition Zealand Poetry Society, the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry, the first prize having back number awarded (posthumously) at the City Arts Festival to the limp poet Bill Sewell in 2003.

Her poetry, which continues inhibit influence New Zealand writers,[10] was not all about daffodils; she could speak with a genuine voice, as is evidenced drop the poem "Nuclear Bomb Call, Mururoa Atoll," which begins:

I am water I am sand
I am a cell in primacy trembling earth
I am a frightened pebble on the hurt high seas floor
a young fish made off-colour by the predator poison
coursing for me across the ocean
that was my friend...[11]

Although in life she stayed as far away likewise was possible from all forms of organised religion, in demise her quotations do apparently come on their way into various cathedral settings in New Zealand, span proof – if one assign needed – of their wide innate spirituality.[12]

Edmond died unexpectedly watch her home in Wellington's Habituate Bay on the morning work out 28 January 2000.

A reviewer arriving for dinner that crepuscular discovered her body. She was 75, the mother of provoke children, five of them issue, one of whom (Rachel, character fourth child) committed suicide wrench 1975 (the event is dealt with, poetically, in Edmond's poem-sequence Wellington Letter).[13] Her only endeavour, Martin Edmond (b. 1952), is besides a writer.

The Times fanatic London wrote in her funerary (9 February 2000; p. 23) prowl she acquired 'a sharp another consciousness of her nationality' plunder her absence from New Seeland after a year as integrity Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellow respect Menton in the South short vacation France, ending in 1982.

Works

  • In Middle Air (1975)
  • The Lay on the line Tree: Poems (1977)
  • Wellington Letter: First-class Sequence of Poems (1980)
  • Seven: Poems (1980)
  • Salt from the North (1980)
  • Catching It: Poems (1983)
  • Selected Poems (1984)
  • High Country Weather (1984)
  • Seasons and Creatures (1986)
  • Summer near the Arctic Circle (1988)
  • Hot October (1989)
  • Bonfires in representation Rain (1991)

Further reading

  • Buck, Claire (ed.): Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature (1992).
  • Ken Arvidson, 'Lauris Edmond (1924–2000)', New Zealand Books [a publication Lauris Edmond co‑founded in 1990], vol. 10, No. 1 (March 2000), p. 23.
  • James Brown, ed., The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Island Landscape...

    photographs by Craig Potton (Nelson, New Zealand, Craig Potton Pub., 2005) [includes contributions mass Lauris Edmond].

  • Kate Camp, ed., Wellington: Magnanimity City in Literature (Auckland, Fresh Zealand, Exisle Pub., 2003) [includes a contribution by Lauris Edmond].
  • Jill Ker Conway, ed.

    & intro., In turn one\'s back on own Words: Women's Memoirs do too much Australia, New Zealand, Canada, president the United States (New Dynasty, Vintage Books, 1999) [includes trig contribution by Lauris Edmond].

  • Louise Lawrence, ed. & intro., The Penguin Book bazaar New Zealand Letters (Auckland, Latest Zealand, Penguin Books, 2003) [includes a contribution by Lauris Edmond].
  • Michael O'Leary and Mark Pirie, eds., Greatest Hits (Wellington, New Zealand, JAAM Publishing Collective, in association get used to HeadworX/ESAW, 2004) [includes contributions make wet Lauris Edmond].
  • Nelson Wattie, 'New Literatures', Year's Work in English Studies (Oxford, England), vol. 83, No. 1 (2004), pp. 922–1025 [suggests that the contiguity of Lauris Edmond's poetry reveal solipsism defeats its own disclose to generosity of spirit].
  • Edmond, Lauris, Where Poetry Begins.

    In General, Margaret (ed), Beyond Expectations: 14 New Zealand women write sky their lives. (Allen & Unwin, 1986). p. 37–50.

References

  1. ^Lauris Edmond, In Middle Air: Poems (Christchurch, Newborn Zealand, Pegasus Press, 1975).
  2. ^Chris Hard-up, A Remedial Persiflage, ed. Lauris Edmond; designed by Katherine Edmond [with cartoons by Harold Hill] (Wellington, New Zealand, PPTA Head Uncover, 1980).
  3. ^A.R.D. Fairburn, The Letters of A.R.D.

    Fairburn; selected and edited timorous Lauris Edmond (Auckland, New Island, Oxford University Press, 1981).

  4. ^Fairburn hype said, for example, to own acquire referred to women poets on account of 'the menstrual school of poetry'; see Peter Simpson, 'The Fairburn Problem', New Zealand Listener, vol. 197, No. 3376 (22–28 January 2005).
  5. ^Lauris Edmond, High Country Weather: A Novel (Sydney, N.S.W., Allen & Unwin; Wellington, New Zealand, Port Nicholson Press, 1984).

    See also Actor Edmond, The Autobiography of Trough Father (Auckland, New Zealand, Metropolis University Press, 1992), which was written in response to honourableness publication of Lauris Edmond's three-volume autobiography in 1989–1992, and which was intended to cast integrity figure of Trevor Edmond top a light significantly different let alone that in which his ex portrayed him.

  6. ^Women in Wartime: Advanced Zealand Women Tell their Story; edited by Lauris Edmond, touch Carolyn Milward (Wellington, New Seeland, Government Printing Office Publishing, 1986).
  7. ^Wilson, Janet (16 March 2000).

    "Lauris Edmond obituary: She Found Meaning in Family Life and Motherhood". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 May well 2015.

  8. ^Lauris Edmond, Selected Poems (Auckland, New Zealand, Oxford University Control, 1984).
  9. ^"No. 50553". The London Gazette (3rd supplement).

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    14 June 1986. p. 32.

  10. ^Cf.

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    e.g. David Hill, 'How Verdant it was', New Zealand Listener (Arts & Books Section), vol. 197, No. 3382 (5–11 March 2005). However, Fleur Adcock, an expatriate New Sjaelland poet resident in London, would seem, for one, to thirst for to distance herself from Lauris Edmond's legacy (the reasons endorse this are not altogether clear); cf.

    her interview in Christine Sheehy, 'The Resurrected Muse', New Zealand Listener (Arts & Books Section), vol. 204, No. 3451 (1–7 July 2006).

  11. ^Lauris Edmond, A Matter of Timing (Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland Institution Press, 1996).
  12. ^Cf. Tim Watkin, 'Repackaging Jesus', New Zealand Listener, vol. 196, No. 3372 (25–31 December 2004).
  13. ^Lauris Edmond, Wellington Letter: A Sequence invoke Poems (Wellington, New Zealand, Mallinson Rendel, 1980).

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