Education
He attended King"s College and University of Auckland, graduating with an Master of Arts in English in 1968.
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Georgicon
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(Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty) Author: Ian Wedde published on (April, 2007)
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The Commonplace Odes
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This collection of odes is deliberately patterned, but expressed in a contemporary voice. The introductory epode flags the themes of the works to follow, interspersed with two epistles lighter in tone, and concluded with a song of lament and of hope.
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The shirt factory and other stories
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Tales of Gotham City
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Tales of Gotham City consists of three groups of poems that were written over a period of seven years, from 1977–83. Ian Wedde says of this collection: When I went 'greedily' looking for meaning among the poems I'd written since about 1977, I found the record of a withdrawal of curiosity, its replacement with a counterpart anger. I'd wanted to know why not, not why. I'd heard myself answering kids' questions with my own. There were too many experts. Who did they think they were, these people with such confidence in their cigars, their sex, their history. That's me trying to step out of that sentence. We leave in order to come back. We don't need heroes, we need us.
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(The Commonplace Odes) Author: Ian Wedde published on (December, 2001)
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The Viewing Platform
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Symme's Hole
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Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty by Ian Wedde (2005-10-31)
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The Shirt Factory: and Other Stories
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Selected stories from one of New Zealand's most well known authors, Ian Wedde. Largely written in the years between 1970 and 1980, the collection includes the award winning Dick Seddon's Great Dive.
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Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems
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One of the major young New Zealand poets, Ian Wedde has published nine volumes of poetry, winning the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1971 for his first book. Intended as an introduction to his writing, this volume contains a selection of his poetry published between 1969 and 1982.
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Ian Wedde
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Born in Blenheim, New Zealand, Wedde lived in East Pakistan and England as a child before returning to New Zealand. Wedde started publishing poetry in 1966. He travelled in Jordan and England in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and returned to New Zealand to live in Portuguese Chalmers in 1972.
In 1975 he moved to Wellington.
From 1983 to 1990 Wedde was the art critic for The Evening Post. He co-edited The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse with Harvey McQueen in the mid 1980s, and The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry with McQueen and Miriama Evans in 1989.
He became the arts project manager at Te Papa in 1994. A collection of essays, Making Ends Meet, was published in 2005.
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book
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Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems
(One of the major young New Zealand poets, Ian Wedde has p...)
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Tales of Gotham City
( Tales of Gotham City consists of three groups of poems ...)
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The Commonplace Odes
(This collection of odes is deliberately patterned, but ex...)
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The Shirt Factory: and Other Stories
(Selected stories from one of New Zealand's most well know...)
- Homage to Matisse
- Georgicon
- (Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty) Author: Ian Wedde published on (April, 2007)
- The shirt factory and other stories
- (The Commonplace Odes) Author: Ian Wedde published on (December, 2001)
- The Viewing Platform
- Symme's Hole
- Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty by Ian Wedde (2005-10-31)
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Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems
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