Diana Bridge

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Diana Bridge (born 1942 in Wellington) is a New Zealand poet. [1]

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She attended Queen Margaret College and Victoria University of Wellington. [2] She lived most of her adult life in various parts of Asia, including India and China, and as an adult she completed a PhD in classical Chinese poetry at the Australian National University. [1] [3] She began writing poetry in her 50s. [4]

In 2010 she was awarded the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for her distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry. In 2014 her essay "An attachment to China" won the Landfall Essay Competition. In 2015, she completed a residency at the Writers' and Artists' Colony at Yaddo in New York. [5] [6] She won the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize in the same year. [1] [6]

She shared her poem Dream Sound for Chinese language week in 2021. [7]

Selected works

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Diana Bridge". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  2. "NZEPC – Seeing Voices – Diana Bridge". New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  3. Bridge, Diana (1991). Poems on things: a contribution to Yongming composition. PhD thesis. doi:10.25911/5d67b683afd54.
  4. Green, Paula (29 August 2016). "Poetry Shelf Interview: Diana Bridge – 'I begin a poem in a state of white hot energy'". NZ Poetry Shelf. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  5. "| New Zealand Book Council". www.bookcouncil.org.nz. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  6. 1 2 Carlisle, Talia (26 May 2015). "Diana Bridge celebrates poetry prize win all the way to New York". Stuff. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  7. "Dream sound: Poet Diana Bridge shares work for Chinese Language Week". Stuff. 29 September 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2022.