Kevin Ireland

Kevin Mark Ireland (born 18 July 1933, Auckland – ) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist and librettist.

Life
He worked for The Times for 20 years.

He was writer-in-residence at Canterbury University in 1986, the Sargeson Fellow in 1987, the University of Auckland’s writing fellow in 1989, assistant editor of Quote Unquote, and president of PEN, 1990–91.

He married Pheobe Caroline Dalwood; they have two sons. He lives in Devonport, New Zealand.

Awards

 * 1979 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry for Literary Cartoons
 * 1990 New Zealand Medal
 * OBE for services to literature.
 * 2004 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement

Works

 * "Railway Jokes", Sport 8: Autumn 1992


 * Face to Face: Twenty-Four Poems (1963)
 * Educating the Body (1967)
 * A Letter from Amsterdam (1972)
 * Orchids, Hummingbirds and Other Poems (1974)
 * A Grammar of Dreams (1975)
 * Literary Cartoons (1977)
 * The Dangers of Art: Poems 1975–80 (1980)
 * Practice Night in the Drill Hall: Poems (1984)
 * The Year of the Comet: Twenty-Six 1986 Sonnets (1986)
 * Selected Poems (1987)
 * Tiberius at the Beehive (1990)

Editor

 * The New Zealand Collection: A Celebration of the New Zealand Novel (1990)

Essays

 * "Kevin Ireland on Frank Sargeson", Quote UnQoute, November 1995, Issue Four
 * Islands 28 (1980)
 * One of the Boys? (1988)
 * Skinning a Fish (1994)