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David Howard

David Howard

About David Howard

Born in Christchurch (1959), David Howard co-founded ‘Takahe’ magazine (1989) and the Canterbury Poets Collective (1990). He spent his professional life as a pyrotechnics supervisor whose clients included the All Blacks, Janet Jackson and Metallica. In 2003 he retired to Purakanui in order to write. David was the inaugural recipient of the New Zealand Society of Authors Mid-Career Writer’s Award (2009) for the body of poetry that was subsequently collected in ‘The Incomplete Poems’ (Cold Hub Press, 2011). His work has been translated into Dutch, German, Italian, Slovene and Spanish.



Website:
http://www.coldhubpress.co.nz/coldhubpress.co.nz/More_Info_David_Howard.html

Go out to be in time

Posted on April 1, 2011 by David Howard

in memory of Stuart Rynsburger 1 after Kim Hyesoon Turn out the light, you hurt the night. ‘When you look at me I feel I should change.’ The day of the first snow the snow was nowhere to be seen. …

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Simply by Sailing in a New Direction

Posted on August 1, 2010 by David Howard

for Arjen Duinker   1 Christ Child with Whirligig (Bosch) twirling until Kingdom Come. The Word is like the hold of a ship: Heemskerck, its timbers shivering in a spring tide, heavy with antiques from the New World.   * …

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