This page is dedicated to the contact details and biographies of the poets published in The Typewriter. Feel free to get in touch with any of the poets that have provided their preferred contact details.
Claire Ahuriri
fuchsia_gemini@hotmail.com
Desh Balasubramaniam
desh Balasubramaniam is a young poet. He was born in Sri Lanka and raised in both the war torn Northern & Eastern provinces. He fled to New Zealand at the age of thirteen with his family on humanitarian asylum. During and upon conclusion of his University education, he spent considerable lengths of time travelling on shoestring budgets through number of countries often travelling by hitchhiking and working various jobs. His continuous journeys have further evoked his passion in expressive art and embarked him on the endless quest in search of identity.He is the founding director of Ondru –rising movement of Arts & Literature. He stands steeped in black ink of a fountain pen ready to scribe…
His poetical works have appeared (or soon to appear) in Overland, Going Down Swinging, the Lumière Reader, Mascara Literary Review, Blackmail Press, QLRS, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Lines Magazine, The Blue Fog Journal, The Big Issue, Blue Giraffe, Bravado Literary Magazine and various other publications. He is currently working on his first poetry collection.
Jack Bradshaw
Around 1947, to a 17 year old lad, the war just finished had been an exciting experience. Then he went to sea, finally settling in New Zealand.
After mustering sheep in the high country for a while, writing and getting published at the same time, he took a job on a newspaper as agricultural editor, then as shipping and conservation reporter.This led to becoming editor of a small paper in the provinces, Later he met Hone Tuwhare, a Poet Laureate, who encouraged him to write more poetry.
Jack loved this medium, finding ideas flowed easily, although continuing to produce short stories. He is retired and living with his wife and daughter in a small cottage overlooking the Pacific, writing, growing organics and approaching 80.
M.L Finney
finneyml@gmail.com
David Gregory
David Gregory is an established New Zealand poet with three books to his credit. His poetry has appeared in many NZ publications and a number of anthologies. David is a founder member of the Canterbury Poets Collective and is an editor for Sudden Valley Press.
gregory886@gmail.com
Peter Le Baige
Raised by the sea, living in the city. As a child we lived in Bucklands Beach, now an east suburb of Auckland (then a ‘village’) 5 minutes walk from the sea, as my Dad was fond of saying. The water, the tides, the light on water are everywhere through whatever I write, it’s seeps through me to this day, like a tide under the night jetty, even though I am living in the dry interior city of Beijing, China.
For influences the early work of the German novelist and poet, Herman Hesse, were a realisation that words come of our interior, and can carry that interior with them. The works of Sam Hunt helped me to understand I need only write in the landscape and the language of the place where I lived. However, my bent to wander lead me to Chinese and Greek poetry, the works of George Seferis. The Lennon-McCartney song book, Bob Dylan, the twisted vowels, and spat out consonants of rock and roll forged an ambition in me to create a short lyric line, which I never managed, the pop line of a modern romantic. Now I’m content to simply write, as Jack Kerouac put in somewhat different words, what is on my mind in order to see that mind.
Chris Parsons
Chris Parsons taught English as a second language in Japanese Colleges and Universities for six years. He now works as a child psychologist and enjoys writing poetry and short stories. He lives in New Zealand and has had work published in Black Mail Press, Jaam, the Otago Daily Times, Snorkel, and Southern Ocean Review.
Vaughan Rapatahana
Born in Patea, raised a fair bit in Papatoetoe, with homes in Te Araroa and Pampanga, Philippines. Currently lives in Hong Kong. Worked in many countries, from United Arab Emirates to Republic of Nauru. Ph.D in Existential Literary Criticism.
Fortunate to have been published as poet, critic, author, throughout Aotearoa, and in Australia, Asia, USA, U.K.. Longlisted for Proverse Prize in Literature, 2009.
Sarah Scott
wallflowernz@hotmail.com
Lucy Telford
lucyfur@gmail.com
Tourettes
www.myspace.com/tourettesone
Matthew Wright
Matthew Wright is a Maori poet living in Wellington City. He was born in Bluff, January 1985, raised in Mt Maunagui and Kaitaia. He identifies himself with the Far North of New Zealand.
He is a Massey University Alumni with a bachelor’s degree in communications, majoring in journalism and communication management. Matthew has recently taken to poetry after a long period of predominantly writing essays.
He was attracted to writing poetry after being inspired by the ‘poetic journalist’ Charles Bukowski. After studying journalism and reading Bukowski he realised he could approach poetry from a journalist’s point of view. Writing realism and searching for truth, while not being limited by the rules of news writing.
