Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows

[biography]

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (b. 1925) has a long association with Victoria University throughout his career as a poet, playwright, novelist and autobiographer. He was a student when Mine Eyes Dazzle achieved early success in 1950, and his most recent volume of new poems, Death and the 'Tagua' , was published in a fine-print edition by the University's Wai-te-ata Press in 1996. Other significant titles include Wild Honey ( 1964), The Dark Lord of Savaiki (1980) and Pocket Collected Poems (1996). He was awarded an Honorary DLitt in Victoria University's Centennial Year, 1999.