Ian Wedde

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Ian Wedde

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BornIan Curtis Wedde
(1946-10-17) 17 October 1946 (age 76)
Blenheim, New Zealand
OccupationPoet
Alma mater University of Auckland
Spouse
(m. 1967)
Donna Malane
(m. 2007)
[1]

Ian Curtis Wedde ONZM (born 17 October 1946) is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator.

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Biography

Born in Blenheim, New Zealand, Wedde lived in East Pakistan and England as a child before returning to New Zealand. He attended King's College and the University of Auckland, graduating with an MA in English in 1968. [2]

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 Port 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 where he curated the opening art exhibition Parade that controversially paired McChaon's Northland Panels with a 1950s refrigerator. [3]

A collection of essays, Making Ends Meet, was published in 2005. [4]

Wedde was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to art and literature. [5]

Poetry collections

Fiction

Notes

  1. Hewitson, Michele (15 June 2013). "Michele Hewitson Interview: Ian Wedde". New Zealand Herald.
  2. Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, Oxford University Press, 1997.
  3. "Parade". Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  4. Making Ends Meet Essays and Talks 1992-2004 Archived 8 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Queen's Birthday honours list 2010". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2018.

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