Gary Langford

Gary Langford (born 1947) is a New Zealand poet.

Life
Langrord was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1974.

He was a teacher and writer in Sydney for more than 30 years. During that time he was the founder and director of the Playhouse Theatre at the University of West Sydney (UWS), and founder and co-ordinator of UWS's M.A in Creative Writing program.

Langford He has had more than 250 productions of his plays, sketches and musicals. He has published more than 20 books, including 8 volumes of poetry. He is a co-ordinator of New Zealand poets for The Poetry Archive. He lives and writes in Melbourne, Australia, and Christchurch.

Poetry
seven volumes of poetry, Four Ships (1982), The Pest Exterminator's Shakespeare (1984), Bushido (1987), Strange City (1988), Love at the Traffic Lights (1990) and Jesus the Galilee Hitch-Hiker (1991) latest poetry books are Rainwoman & Snake, Steele Roberts (www.steeleroberts.co.nz) 2011 and The Family Album, Ginninderra Press (www.ginninderrapress.com.au) 2011.


 * The Family. Christchurch, NZ: Fragments Press, 1973.
 * Cafe Sonnets (illustrated by Roger Hickin). Lyttleton, NZ: Cold Hub Press, 2010.

Plays
two collections of plays and dramatic sketches, Getting On (1986) and Lovers and Others (1986);

Novels
five novels, Players in the Ballgame (1979), The Adventures of Dreaded Ned (1980), a black comedy on the Ned Kelly legend, Vanities (1984, winner of the Alan Marshall Award in 1983), which is the story of a famous Sydney actress and her daughter and focuses on alcoholism,
 * Death of the Early Morning Hero. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1976.
 * Players in the Ballgame. South Melbourne, Vic: Macmillan, 1979.
 * Pillbox: A novel. South Melbourne, Vic: Macmillan, 1985.
 * Newlands. Auckland & New York: Penguin, 1990.

Short fiction
two collections of short stories, The Death of James Dean (1978), and A Library is a Place of Love and Other Stories (1989);

Juvenile
and a book for children, A Classical Pianist in a Rock 'N' Roll Band (1989).

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

Recognition
Langford won the Vera Bladen Poetry Award in 1970.

His short story 'The Dying Man' shared the Patricia Hackett Prize in 1975.