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Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ONZM, (born 25 June 1925) is an award-winning New Zealand poet, playwright, and novelist.
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Biography
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell was born on Rarotonga, Cook Islands, but has lived for most of his life in New Zealand, mainly around the Wellington region, and for several decades in Pukerua Bay, Porirua.
Born Alistair Campbell but later added 'Te Ariki' after going back to the Cook Islands and discovering his grandfather had ties to chiefdom. So in his honour he added Te Ariki or "the chief" to his name. His father was a New Zealand Scot, while his mother was Cook Island Maori from the island of Penrhyn. He grew up in an orphanage in Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand with his brother following the death of his mother to TB and his father who literally drank himself to death (both in 1933). He attended Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin, and then studied at the University of Otago and Victoria University of Wellington. 1 He became a member of the Wellington Group in 1950s. The group was just an affiliation of a number of writers who mostly shared a common opposition to Allen Curnow's, another notable New Zealand writer, ideas and writings.
His first wife was the poet Fleur Adcock from whom he was later divorced. His second wife, Aline Margaret (Meg) (1927-2007) was also a poet.
From 1976 till 1979 he was the President of the New Zealand branch of PEN-International.
His poem "The Return" was set to electronic music by Douglas Lilburn.
Works
Poetry
- 1950: Mine Eyes Dazzle, Christchurch: Pegasus Press, including "The Return" and "Elegy"
- 1963: Sanctuary of Spirits
- 1964: Wild Honey, London: Oxford University Press
- 1967: Blue Rain: Poems, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
- 1972: Kapiti : Selected Poems 1947-71. Christchurch : Pegasus Press
- 1975: Dreams, Yellow Lions
- 1980: The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press
- 1981: Collected Poems, Hazard, ISBN 1-877393-00-2
- 1985: Soul Traps, Pukerua Bay: Te Kotare Press
- 1992: Stone Rain: The Polynesian Strain, Aukland: Hazard Press
- 1996: Pocket Collected Poems, Christchurch: Hazard Press
- 1999: Gallipoli & Other Poems, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
- 2001: Maori Battalion: a poetic sequence, Wellington: Wai-te-ata Press
- Poets in our youth: four letters in verse, being four letters in verse to John Mansfield Thomson, Harry Orsman, Pat Wilson and James K. Baxter; Wellington: Pemmican Press
- Death and Tagua
- Pocket: Collected Poems
Other work
- 1961: The Happy Summer, a novel for children
- 1965: The Proprietor, Radio play
- 1964: The Homecoming, a radio play
- 1966: The Suicide, a radio play
- 1970: When the Bough Breaks, a radio play
- 1984: Island to Island, memoir
- 1989: The Frigate Bird, novel, regional finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize
- 1991: Sidewinder, novel, Auckland: Reed Books
- 1993: Tia, novel, Auckland: Reed Books
- 1999: Fantasy With Witches, novel
Island to Island, 1984
Notes
- ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008
External links
- Author entry from The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature
- Alistair Te Ariki Campbell and Maurice Gee pictured at the 2005 Going West literary festival, from LeafSalon
- Biography at the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
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