David Mitchell

David Mitchell was born in Wellington in 1940. He attended Wellington Teachers' Training College and there associated with a number of other poets, including James K. Baxter, Peter Bland, Alistair Campbell, Louis Johnson, Hilaire Kirkland and Mark Young. He went overseas in 1962, travelling to France, Spain, Germany and Scandinavia. Upon return to New Zealand in the mid-1960s, Mitchell became an active reader and promoter of his own and other’s work. His collection Pipe Dreams in Ponsonby was published in 1972. Mitchell was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in 1975, and in 1980 he toured nationally with Alan Brunton, Ian Wedde and three musicians. He ran Poetry Live! at the Globe Hotel in Auckland for three years from 1980. Despite a decline in health from the mid-1980s, Mitchell has continued to write and perform and in 2002 completed a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Victoria University of Wellington. A book of his selected work, Steal Away Boy, was published by Auckland University Press in 2010, edited and with an introduction by Martin Edmond and Nigel Roberts. Mitchell now lives in Sydney.

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