Doug Poole is of Samoan (Ulberg Aiga of Tula’ele, Apia, Upolo) and European descent. He resides in Waitakere City, Auckland. He is the current e-publisher and editor of poetry e-zine Blackmail Press. Poole produced the performance poetry show POLYNATION, performing at Queensland Poetry Festival 2008 and Going West Writers and readers Festival 2008. In 2009, Doug collaborated and co-produced Atarangi Whenua - Shadow Land with New Zealand Painter Penny Howard, a touring exhibition. In 2010, he was published in the University of Hawaii’s, Contemporay Pacific, a special issue honouring Albert Wendt edited by Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh and Teresia Teaiwa and Mauri Ola - Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English, edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan.

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