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Peter Bland (born 1934) is an English-New Zealand poet and actor.

Peter Bland

Peter Bland. Courtesy Best American Poetry blog.

Life[]

Youth and education[]

Bland was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.

He emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 20 and graduated from the Victoria University of Wellington.

Career[]

He worked as a radio producer for the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.

He became closely associated with the Wellington Group, which included James K. Baxter and Louis Johnson. Bland also worked in theatre, as co-founder and artistic director of Downstage Theatre from 1964 to 1968.[1]

He returned to Britain in 1970.[2]

In the late 2010s, Bland began recording videos of his poetry and posting them to Facebook.[3]

Writing[]

World Literature Today: "Rereading some of these poems after thirty years revealed that they have been bivouacking in the backblocks of memory, ready to return at the slightest prompting. One, 'The Happy Army,' created a memorable stir when published in the NZ Listener. Critics hostile to modernist twentieth-century poetic developments lambasted it as mere prose transfigured into verse – an odd objection, since Bland writes quite traditional poetry. Indeed, the very essence of Bland's poetry is the way a contemporary voice and a modern concern with the itinerant mind never at home even in its own past are communicated in poetry which has regard for stanza, rhyme in the form of assonance and alliteration, and rhythm which never quite becomes metrical."[4]

Recognition[]

Poetry[]

  • 1958 Macmillan Brown prize for creative writing, for his debut collection of poetry Habitual Fevers.[3]
  • 1977 Cholmondeley Award
  • Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition, England

Film[]

  • 1985 NZ Film Awards: Best actor, for Came a Hot Friday.[3]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • 3 poets: I. Habitual fevers, by Peter Bland. II. The watchers, by John Boyd. III. The sensual anchor, by Victor O'Leary. Wellington, NZ: Capricorn Press, 1958.
  • The Disinherited: Poems. Christ Church, NZ: Caxton Press, 1963.
  • My Side of the Story: Poems, 1960–1964. Auckland, NZ: Mate Books, 1964.
  • Domestic Interiors. Wellington, NZ: Wai-te-ata Press, 1964.
  • Joint Effort (with Barry MacSweeney). Barnet, UK: Blacksuede Boot Press, 1970.
  • Passing Gods. London: Ferry Press, 1970.
  • The Man With the Carpet-Bag: Poems. Christ Church, NZ: Caxton Press, 1972.
  • Mr. Maui: Poems. London: London Magazine Editions, 1976.
  • Primitives: Poems. Wellington, NZ: Wai-te-ata Press, 1979.
  • Stone Tents. London: London Magazine Editions, 1981.
  • The Crusoe Factor. London: London Magazine Editions, 1985.
  • Selected Poems. Dunedin, NZ: McIndoe, 1987.
  • Paper Boats: Poems. Dunedin, NZ: McIndoe, 1991.
  • Selected Poems. Manchester, UK: Carcanet, 1998.
  • Let's Meet: Poem, 1985-2000. Wellington, NZ: Steele Roberts, 2003.
  • Ports of Call. Wellington, NZ: Steele Roberts, 2003.
  • Mr. Maul's Monologues. Wellington, NZ: Steele Roberts, 2009.
  • Loss. Wellington, NZ: Steele Roberts, 2010.
  • Coming Ashore. Wellington, NZ: Steele Roberts, 2011.
  • Collected Poems, 1956-2011. Wellington, NZ: Steele Roberts, 2012.
  • Breath Dances. Wellington, NZ: Steele Roberts, 2013.
  • Hunting Elephants. Wellington, NZ: Steele Roberts, 2014.
  • Remembering England: New and selected poems. Beeston, Nottingham, UK: Shoestring Press, 2014.
  • Expecting Miracles. Wellington, NZ: Steele Roberts, 2015.

Non-fiction[]

  • Sorry, I'm a Stranger Here Myself (memoir). Auckland: Vintage, 2004.

Juvenile[]

  • The Night Kite: Poems for children (illustrated by Carl Bland). Wellington, NZ: Mallinson Rende, 2004.
  • When Gulls Fly High: Poems for children (illustrated by Joanna Bland). North Shore, NZ: Puffin, 2011.
  • Starkey the Gentle Pirate (illustrated by Nikki Slade-Robinson). Wellington, NZ: Steele Roberts, 2010.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]

Plays[]

  • Father’s Day (Wellington, 1966: the 1st locally-written production at Downstage Theatre)
  • George the Mad Ad Man (Wellington, 1967; Coventry, England, 1969).
X-Ray_by_Peter_Bland

X-Ray by Peter Bland

Audio / video[]

  • Beginnings (cassette). Wellington, NZ: Radio New Zealand / Replay Radio, 1989.[5]

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=oeZ226OlfbkC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=Peter+Bland+poet&source=bl&ots=cXoai5N5Dv&sig=F2QIDCvuEPD1SGw-m8CUxHOFEn4&hl=en&ei=bRlQSozYGqW_twe5xYSzBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7
  2. ↑ http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=60
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Summer Times, Peter Bland: the 84 year old poet embracing social media, Summer Days, January 9, 2019, RNZ. Web, June 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ Bernard Gadd (Spring, 1999). "Peter Bland: Selected Poems". World Literature Today. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5270/is_2_73/ai_n28734247/. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Search results = au:Peter Bland 1934, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Aug. 27, 2016.

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