Classic New Zealand Poets in Performance

by Jack Ross (Editor), Jan Kemp (Editor)

This 2-CD set of classsic New Zealand poets reading their own work includes pieces from James Baxter, Allen Curnow, Janet Frame, and Denis Glover. Accompanied by a book of text that reproduces the poems exactly as they are read, brief biographies and bibliographies of each poet are also provided.

Genres: Poetry

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2006

About the author

Jack Ross retired from his job as Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University in 2022. He has published six books of poems, three novellas, three novels - Nights with Giordano Bruno (2000), The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis (2006) and EMO (2008) - and three collections of short fiction, most recently Haunts (2024). Ross has also edited a number of anthologies and literary journals, including Landfall and Poetry New Zealand.

Michael Steven has described him as a "maverick translator", while Michael Morrissey had this to say about him: "Tired of airport books? Bored by Tom Clancy and Dan Brown? Wearied by puerile web sites? Seeking a challenge? Try a 'novel' by Dr Jack Ross" -- Investigate.

His novel-as-twin-novellas, The Annotated Tree Worship (2017), was highly commended in the 2018 NZSA Heritage Book Awards. He blogs at mairangibay.blogspot.com.