Background
Murray Edmond ws born in 1949 in Hamilton, New Zealand.
(The poems in From the Word Go come in various shapes, siz...)
The poems in From the Word Go come in various shapes, sizes and styles. All make language work hard, are vivid and carefully crafted, and put the reader in contact with a lively, inventive mind. The verses are often prose-like, where meaning builds up line by line. Edmond has a fantastic ear and his poems are always enjoyable.
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(Exciting in its taut energy and inventive comedy, Murray ...)
Exciting in its taut energy and inventive comedy, Murray Edmond's The Switch is a long poem in forty-nine parts which proceeds, not in a straight line, but in a dazzling display of repetitions, rearrangements and transformations. It's a game, a show, an entertainment and a meditation about love and the passage of time.
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Murray Edmond ws born in 1949 in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Murray attended Hamilton BHS and the University of Auckland, where he completed his MA and PhD in English.
Murray edited the third and fourth issues of Freed 1970–71 and participated in alternative theatre groups, including Living Theatre and Beggars Bag Theatre.
In 1974–76 Murray was in Europe, mostly in London, where he worked in theatre. Back in New Zealand he resumed involvement with alternative theatre in Wellington as writer, performer and producer for groups such as Theatre Action and the Town and Country Players.
In 1983 Murray was writer-in-residence at the University of Canterbury, where he wrote many of the poems.
After moving to Auckland in 1984, Edmond worked for Mercury Theatre and then from 1985, began teaching the University’s postgraduate diploma in drama. He was also active as a director and dramaturg at several theatre workshops.
(Exciting in its taut energy and inventive comedy, Murray ...)
2013(The poems in From the Word Go come in various shapes, siz...)
2013