First for poet
A Wellington poet, Dinah Hawken, has won the best first book award in the Australasia-Pacific section of the 1987 Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Her book, “It Has No Sound and is Blue,” will go forward with four other regional winners to be judged for the over-all first book award. This
carries a prize of £2OOO and will be presented in London on November 5. The Commonwealth Poetry Prize is billed as the world’s most comprehensive award for poetry. In 1985 another New Zealand poet, Lauris Edmond, won the over-all award for best book for her
“Selected Poems.” Dinah Hawken was bom in Hawera in 1943, and began writing poetry in the early 1980 s. She recently spent three years in New York, where many of the poems in “It Has No Sound and is Blue" were written. The book was published in May by Victoria University Press.
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Press, 23 September 1987, Page 23
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