Allen Curnow
17 June 1911–23 September 2001
(Person)
Also known as: Thomas Allen Munro Curnow.
Poet, critic, academic.
Works by this Author in Our Collection
- Ten Steps to the Sea in Sport 20: Autumn 1998
- A Busy Port in Sport 7: Winter 1991
- Another Week-end at the Beach in Sport 10: Autumn 1993
- The Kindest Thing in Sport 19: Lightworks
- An Evening Light in Sport 4: Autumn 1990
- A South Island Night’s Entertainment in Sport 13 Spring 1994
- Looking West, Late Afternoon, Low Water in Sport 12: Autumn 1994
- Verse Judgments [Spike 1942] in The Spike or Victoria College Review 1942
- An Unclosed Door in Sport 8: Autumn 1992
- Investigations at the Public Baths in Sport 8: Autumn 1992
- A Facing Page in Sport 8: Autumn 1992
Works by this Author in other Collections
- Landfall in Unknown Seas, in Te Ao Hou
Mentioned in
- A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand
- Six: Conserving The East India pilot
- Eight: 'Not easily put on paper': Robin Hyde's The godwits fly
- Nine: Typography & the great New Zealand pop-up poetry canon
- Ten: 'Mulgan, Marris, Schroder': Repudiating the literary establishment
- Eleven: Bob Lowry and the Pelorus Press, 1945-531
- Twelve: The Byron of Burnside and the Nag's Head Press
- A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
- Baling the Golden Fleece: Baxter's Jason
- Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
- Collected Poems
- Geoffrey Alley, Librarian: His Life & Work
- Hilltop: A Literary Paper. Volume 1 Number 2
- Indirections: A Memoir 1909-1947
- Island Stories
- James K. Baxter Complete Prose Volume 4
- Kōtare 1998, Volume One, Number One
- Kōtare 1999, Volume Two, Number One
- Kōtare 1999, Volume Two, Number Two
- Kōtare 2007, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series One: ‘Women Prose Writers to World War I’
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Three: ‘The Early Poets’
- Introduction
- Alfred Domett, 1811–1887
- Edward Robert Tregear, 1846–1931
- William Pember Reeves, 1857–1932
- Ursula Bethell, 1874–1945
- J. R. Hervey, 1889–1958
- Eileen Duggan, 1894–1972
- D’Arcy Cresswell, 1896-1960
- R. A. K. Mason, 1905–1971
- Charles Brasch, 1909–1973
- Charles Edgar Spear, 1910–1985
- Denis Glover, 1912–1980
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’
- Letters and Art in New Zealand
- Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914
- Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 16. August 2, 1939
- Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 3, No. 1. 1940
- Sport 10: Autumn 1993
- Sport 11: Spring 1993
- Sport 12: Autumn 1994
- Sport 13 Spring 1994
- Sport 14: Autumn 1995
- Sport 19: Lightworks
- Sport 20: Autumn 1998
- Sport 21: Spring 1998
- Sport 22: Autumn 1999
- Sport 32: Summer 2004
- Sport 4: Autumn 1990
- Sport 5: Spring 1990
- Sport 7: Winter 1991
- Sport 8: Autumn 1992
- Sport 9: Spring 1992
- The New Zealand Novel 1860-1965
- The Woman Problem & other prose
- ‘Only for yr. eyes’: The Publication of Ursula Bethell’s ‘Six Memorials’
Cited in
- A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
- Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
- Island Stories
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Three: ‘The Early Poets’
- Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914
- Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 16. August 2, 1939
- Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 3, No. 1. 1940
- Sport 10: Autumn 1993
- Sport 13 Spring 1994
- Sport 19: Lightworks
- Sport 7: Winter 1991
- Sport 8: Autumn 1992
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- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.