Joseph Edward Shaw was born in Opotiki and is now living in Christchurch. He is a writer of poetry and short stories and has published poetry in "Leaving the Red Zone: Poems from the Canterbury Earthquakes", "broken lines/in charcoal", 'a fine line: The Magazine of the Rōpū Toikupu o Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Society' and 'Headland online journal'. He writes: ‘A Native without land is like a turtle without a shell’ for the Native people of Turtle Island.
Biographical sources
- Emails from Joseph Shaw April 2018, Sept 19, Oct 15, Nov 12, 2021, Oct 18, 2024.
Fiction
- Nightmare At Sea. HEADLAND: Literary Frontiers & Emerging Voices 22, October 14, 2024.
Poetry
- "The New Detroit." Leaving the Red Zone: Poems from the Canterbury Earthquakes. Eds. James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston. New Zealand: Clerestory Press, 2016.
- 4 Haiku. Broken Lines/ In Charcoal: An Anthology of Poetry from ten years of The Poetry Class. Eds. Joanna Preston and Karen Zelas. Pūkeko Publications, 2020. 34.
- "Pinching a Peach." Broken Lines/ In Charcoal: An Anthology of Poetry from ten years of The Poetry Class. Eds. Joanna Preston and Karen Zelas. Pūkeko Publications, 2020. 35-36.
- Lillian the Heron of Ōkarito. a fine line: The Magazine of Te Rōpū Toikupu o Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Society, Tauira/Student Issue. Winter 2024. 30.