Louis Johnson (poet)

Louis Albert Johnson (27 September 1924 Feilding, New Zealand – 1 November 1988) was a New Zealand poet.

Louis Johnson

Life

He graduated from Wellington Teachers’ Training College. From 1968 to 1980, Johnson lived overseas and traveled widely, with an extended stay in Papua New Guinea.[1]

Johnson worked as a schoolteacher, journalist, and editor of several publications, including the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook (1951–64),[2] Numbers (1954–60), and Antipodes New Writing (1987).[3][4]

Awards

Works
  • "City Sunday"; "Holidays"; "Kapiti Coast", New Zealand Electronic Poetry Center
  • Stanza and Scene (1945)
  • Roughshod Among the Lilies, (1951)
  • The Sun Among the Ruins (1951)
  • New Worlds for Old (1957).
  • Bread and a Pension. Pegasus Press. 1964.
  • Land like a lizard, New Guinea poems. Jacaranda Press. 1970. ISBN 978-0-7016-0346-5.
  • Onion (1972)
  • Coming and Going. Mallinson Rendel. 1982. ISBN 978-0-908606-14-6.
  • Winter Apples (1984)
  • True confessions of the last cannibal: new poems. Antipodes Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-9597805-0-5.
  • Terry Sturm, ed. (2000). Selected poems. Victoria University Press. ISBN 978-0-86473-350-4.

Criticism

References
  1. Louis Johnson. (2009). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 08, 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online
  2. "Poetry New Zealand : Archives : Issue 23".
  3. "1980 Louis Johnson | NZETC".
  4. Ian Hamilton (1994). The Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English. Oxford University Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-19-866147-4. Louis Johnson (poet).
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