David Eggleton
{{Short description|New Zealand poet and writer}}
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{{Use New Zealand English|date=December 2024}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = David Eggleton
| image = DavidEggleton.jpg
| caption = Eggleton, pictured reading some of his verse in Dunedin, 2011
| alt = Eggleton, reading from a piece of paper and speaking into a microphone
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1952}}
| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| nationality = Tongan, Rotuma and European
| genre = Poetry
| awards = {{plainlist}}
- Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (2016)
- Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry (2016)
- New Zealand Poet Laureate (2019–2022)
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David Eggleton (born 1952) is a New Zealand poet, critic and writer. Eggleton has been awarded the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry and in 2019 was appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate, a title he held until 2022.{{Cite web|title=Bio David Eggleton 2019|url=https://www.dunedinwritersfestival.co.nz/bio-david-eggleton-2019.html|access-date=2022-02-05|website=Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=David Eggleton Named New Poet Laureate|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/397343/david-eggleton-named-new-poet-laureate|access-date=2019-08-23|website=rnz.co.nz|date=23 August 2019 }} Eggleton's work has appeared in a multitude of publications in New Zealand and he has released over 18 poetry books (1986–2001) with a variety of publishers, including Penguin.
Early life
Born in Auckland and of mixed European, Tongan, and Rotuman descent, Eggleton spent part his formative years in both Fiji and Auckland, dropping out of school to take up performance music and poetry."[http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/eggleton.html Eggleton, David] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114003352/http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/eggleton.html |date=2015-01-14 }}", New Zealand Book Council. June 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2016. Eggleton later moved to Dunedin, where he has been based since the 1980s.
Literary career
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Eggleton's creative output has been diverse, including mixed media recordings involving poetry and music, several volumes of poetry, histories of New Zealand music and photography, and a large number of literary reviews. He is also an established Art Critic, writing regularly for Art New Zealand, which is New Zealand's major visual arts journal. He was the editor of New Zealand's premier literary journal, Landfall, from 2010 to 2017.{{cite web |title=David Eggleton |url=https://www.anzliterature.com/member/david-eggleton/ |website=Academy of New Zealand Literature |access-date=26 March 2021}} He is a six-time Montana New Zealand Reviewer of the Year. Other awards have included a Robert Burns Fellowship from the University of Otago in 1990, London Time Out{{'}}s Street Poet of the Year (1985), the 2015 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry,"[http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/72071960/Kiwi-poet-David-Eggleton-reveals-his-inspirations Kiwi poet David Eggleton reveals his inspirations]," stuff.co.nz, 20 September 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2016. and in 2016 the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (in poetry)."[http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/news/2016-prime-minister-s-awards-for-literary-achievement-winners-announced 2016 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Winners Announced]," Creative NZ, 10 October 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2017. His collection of poems, The Conch Trumpet (Otago University Press, 2015), won the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry. In 2017 he received the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers' Residency. Eggleton has also been a part of the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival in 2017, 2019 and 2021.{{Cite web|title=David Eggleton|url=https://www.dunedinwritersfestival.co.nz/david-eggleton.html|access-date=2022-02-05|website=Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival|language=en}} A video, For Art's Sake: Art and Politics. Performance Poet David Eggleton, won the TV Arts Documentary prize in the 1997 Qantas Media Awards.
In 2022 Eggleton was a guest at the Auckland Writers Festival.{{Cite web|title=Writer: David Eggleton - Writers|url=https://www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/writers/david-eggleton?code=E|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Auckland Writers Festival|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416050945/http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/writers/david-eggleton?code=E |archive-date=2017-04-16 }}
Ian Wedde (in the Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse) describes Eggleton's poem Painting Mount Taranaki as "...inside its history. Its language is a confident if erratic blend of vernacular, lyric, and high demotic; this confidence allows for mobile and ironic cross-currents animating the texture and depth of the language throughout."Wedde, I., and McQueen, H., (eds.) (1985) The Penguin book of New Zealand verse. Auckland: Penguin. p.40. Eggleton's poems are frequently iconoclastic or anti-establishment, using mockery to point out the shortcomings of political and social systems, and when read are delivered at a fast, fluent tempo."[http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/david-eggleton David Eggleton]", The Poetry Archive, Retrieved 26 February 2016.
Recordings and publications
=Recordings=
- Versifier (2002) Yellow Eye Music{{Cite web|title=david eggleton music {{!}} Discogs|url=https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=david+eggleton&type=all|access-date=2022-02-05|website=www.discogs.com}}
- Baxter: Poems by James K. Baxter (2000) National Radio Music{{Cite web|last1=Dobbyn|first1=Dave|last2=Johnson|first2=Greg|last3=Tocker|first3=Mahinarangi|last4=Phillipps|first4=Martin|last5=Yates|first5=Charlotte|last6=Brough|first6=Andrew|last7=Reyne|first7=Jordan|last8=Farr|first8=Gareth|last9=Hunt|first9=Sam|date=2000-01-01|title=Baxter [sound recording] : poems by James K. Baxter|url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/20580605|access-date=2022-02-05|website=Baxter [sound recording] : poems by J... {{!}} Items {{!}} National Library of New Zealand {{!}} National Library of New Zealand}}
- Seeing Voices: New Zealand Poets Reading (1999) Auckland University Press{{Cite book|last=Eggleton|first=David|url=https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/fast-talker/|title=Fast Talker - Auckland University Press|year=2006|language=en}}
- Poetry Demon (1993) Jayrem Records
- Wrap Up (1987) Partisan Productions
=Video=
- The Cloud Forest (2002) (short film; Eggleton co-editor){{Cite web|title=David Eggleton|url=https://www.read-nz.org/writer/eggleton-david|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Read NZ|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123153758/https://www.read-nz.org/writer/eggleton-david |archive-date=2020-01-23 }}
- Teleprompter (2001) (short film; Eggleton co-editor)
=Books=
- Respirator: A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 (2023) (poetry){{Cite web |last=Press |first=Otago University |title=Respirator |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/press/books/otago0234745.html |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=www.otago.ac.nz |language=en-nz}}
- Leaps and Bounds – ESAW (2021) (poetry chapbook)
- Throw Net: Upena Ho'olei – Fernbank Studio Te Whanganui-a-Tara (2021) (poetry chapbook)
- The Wilder Years: Selected Poems – Otago University Press (2021) (poetry){{Cite web|last=|first=|title=David Eggleton|url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/press/books/otago756846.html|access-date=2022-01-25|website=University of Otago|date=31 August 2020|language=en-nz}}
- Edgeland and Other Poems – Otago University Press (2018) (poetry)
- SNAP - Otakou Press (2017) – (poetry chapbook)
- The Conch Trumpet – Otago University Press (2015) (poetry)
- Time of the Icebergs – Otago University Press (2010) (poetry)
- Towards Aotearoa: A Short History of Twentieth Century New Zealand Art – Reed (2007){{Cite web|title=David Eggleton - Catalogue|url=https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=david+eggleton&qid=oJ6Lcg1t63|access-date=2022-02-05|website=www.goodreads.com}}
- Into the Light: A History of New Zealand Photography – Craig Potton (2006){{Cite book|last=Eggleton|first=David|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3884284|title=Into the light: A history of New Zealand photography|date=2006|publisher=Craig Potton|isbn=978-1-877333-54-5|location=Nelson, N.Z|oclc=82289646}}
- Fast Talker – Auckland University Press (2006) (poetry)
- Ready to Fly: The Story of New Zealand Rock Music – Craig Potton (2003){{Cite web|last=Eggleton|first=David|title=Ready To Fly: the Story of New Zealand Rock Music|url=https://www.abebooks.com/9781877333064/Ready-Fly-Story-New-Zealand-1877333069/plp|access-date=2022-02-05|website=www.abebooks.com|language=en}}
- Seasons: Four Essays on the New Zealand Year – Craig Potton (2001){{Cite web|last=Eggleton|first=David|title=Seasons: the New Zealand Year|url=https://www.mcleodsbooks.co.nz/p/nz-non-fiction-seasons-the-new-zealand-year|access-date=2022-02-05|website=McLeods Booksellers|language=en}}
- Rhyming Planet – Steele Roberts (2001) (poetry){{Cite web|last=Eggleton|first=David|title=Rhyming Planet|url=https://www.hardtofind.co.nz/book/xxhrb39546/Rhyming-Planet|access-date=2022-02-05|website=www.hardtofind.co.nz|language=en}}
- Here on Earth – Craig Potton (1999) (an anthology of New Zealand landscape writing; Eggleton editor){{Cite web|last=Eggleton|first=David|title=Here on Earth: The Landscape in New Zealand Literature|url=https://www.jasonbooks.co.nz/p/new-zealand-literature-here-on-earth-the-landscape-in-new-zealand-literature|access-date=2022-02-05|website=Jason Books|language=en}}
- Empty Orchestra – Auckland University Press (1995) (poetry){{Cite web|last=Eggleton|first=David|date=1995|title=Empty Orchestra|url=https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/10952|access-date=2022-02-05|website=otago.ourheritage.ac.nz}}
- People of the Land – Penguin (1988) (poetry){{Cite book|last=Eggleton|first=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vcpHAAAAYAAJ|title=People of the Land|date=1988|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-058613-8|language=en}}
- After Tokyo – ESAW (1987) (short fiction)
- South Pacific Sunrise – Penguin (1986) (poetry)
- {{cite book|author=Various authors |editor-last=Jarquín |editor-first=Carlos Javier |editor-link=Carlos Javier Jarquín |title=Canto planetario: hermandad en la Tierra |url= |year=2023 |publisher=HC Editores |location=Costa Rica |isbn=979-8850092115 }}
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