Louis Johnson (poet)

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.[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/305360/Louis-Albert-Johnson Louis Johnson. (2009). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved September 08, 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online]

Johnson worked as a schoolteacher, journalist, and editor of several publications, including the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook (1951–64),{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetrynz.net/archives/issue-23/|title=Poetry New Zealand : Archives : Issue 23}} Numbers (1954–60), and Antipodes New Writing (1987).{{Cite web|url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-RobWrit-_N66629.html|title = 1980 Louis Johnson | NZETC}}{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00hami| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00hami/page/258 258]| quote=Louis Johnson (poet).| title=The Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English| author=Ian Hamilton | isbn=978-0-19-866147-4 | year=1994 | publisher=Oxford University Press}}

• 1975 New Zealand Book Award for poetry for Fires and Patterns
• 1976 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry

• [https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-RobWrit-_N66629.html "City Sunday"; "Holidays"; "Kapiti Coast", New Zealand Electronic Poetry Center]
• Stanza and Scene (1945)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110612141224/http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/auspoetry/1/0/2/pdf/ac1020.pdf Roughshod Among the Lilies], (1951)
• The Sun Among the Ruins (1951)
• New Worlds for Old (1957).
• {{cite book| title=Bread and a Pension | publisher=Pegasus Press| year=1964 }}
• {{cite book| title=Land like a lizard, New Guinea poems| publisher=Jacaranda Press| year=1970| isbn=978-0-7016-0346-5 }}
• Onion (1972)
• {{cite book| title=Coming and Going | publisher=Mallinson Rendel| year=1982| isbn=978-0-908606-14-6 }}
• Winter Apples (1984)
• {{cite book| title=True confessions of the last cannibal: new poems| publisher=Antipodes Press| year=1986| isbn=978-0-9597805-0-5 }}
• {{cite book| title=Selected poems| editor=Terry Sturm| publisher=Victoria University Press| year=2000| isbn=978-0-86473-350-4 }}

• [http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/stanley/johnson.asp "Starveling Year, poems by Mary Stanley", new zealand electronic poetry centre]

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081014133811/http://www.nzlf.auckland.ac.nz/author/?a_id=77 "Louis Johnson", New Zealand Literature File, University of Auckland]
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100203002521/http://www.thepoetryhouse.org/Petryrooms/australia_newz.html "Australia and New Zealand", Poetry House]}}

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