Kim Eggleston

Ngāi Tahu

1960 -

Was writer in residence at Canterbury University with Gary Langford in 1989. Eggelston was "born 1960 in Picton, is affiliated to Ngāi Tahu (Ngāi Huirapa) through her mother's people at Arowhenua. She published several books of poetry on the West Coast in the 1980s, and appeared in magazines and anthologies around that time. She has spent much of the past decade at sea, or living on land in the hot places doing various jobs from public-sector librarian to teaching English in Hanoi. She currently lives in Darwin."

Biographical sources

  • Whaitiri, Reina & Sullivan, Robert. Puna Wai Korero: An Anthology of Maori Poetry in English. Auckland University Press, 2014.

    Fiction

  • "Waiting." Landfall 145 (1983): 22-23.

  • Other

  • Crayford, Elizabeth. "Book Reviews." Landfall 153 (1985): 106-110.
  • Sharp, Iain. "Books in Brief." New Outlook: A New Zealand Magazine of News, Reviews and Comment Dec. 1986: 73-74.

  • Poetry

  • "The Beekeeper." Landfall 145 (1983): 21-22.
  • "Broad Bay." Landfall 145 (1983): 21-22.
  • From the Face to the Bin: Poems, 1978-1984. Greymouth, N.Z.: Strong John Press, 1984.
  • 25 Poems: The Mist Will Rise and the World Will Drip With Gold. Greymouth, N.Z.: Strong John Press, 1985.
  • "Three Stories Up In the Green."Al Dente June 1987: 35.
  • The Whole Crack. 1987.
  • "The Stealer." Untold 9/10 (1988): 26.
  • "And Your Bird Can Swing." Brain 1.1 (1989/1990): 54.
  • "Afterwards." Takahe 9 (Spr. 1991): 45.
  • "Raising the Ark." Poetry NZ 4 (1991): 16-18.
  • "Talking Blatnoi." .” Poetry NZ 4 (1991): 16-18.
  • "We haven’t Seen the Sun." Poetry NZ 4 (1991): 16-18.
  • "A Whale’s Tail." Boomer 1991: 22-25.
  • "The Stealer." .” Boomer 1991: 22-25.
  • "Afterwards." Boomer 1991: 22-25.
  • "Conditions of Entry." Boomer 1991: 22-25.
  • "A Perfect Life." JAAM: Just Another Art Movement 21 (2004): 48.
  • "The back road back." 121 New Zealand poems. Manhire, Bill. Auckland, N.Z.: Godwit, 2005.
  • "?" Rail Poems of New Zealand Aotearoa: An Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Mark Pirie. Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop in association with the Poetry Archive of New Zealand Aotearoa, 2010.
  • Puna wai kōrero : an anthology of Māori poetry in English. Ed. Robert Sullivan and Reina Whaitiri. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press, 2014.

  • Reviews

  • "Reviews: Laying on the Muse." Rev. of Selected Poems, by Sam Hunt. Landfall 42.1 (1988): 105-106.

    Other

  • A Select Bibliography of Ngai Tahu History Available in the South Island – Te Wai Pounamu. 1994.
  • Prepared as a requirement for the Diploma in Library and Information Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.