Poetry Judge - Glenn Colquhoun
Glenn
Colquhoun is a poet and children's writer. His first collection
The art of
walking upright
won the Jessie Mackay best first book of poetry award at
the 2000 Montana book awards.
Playing God, his third collection, won the
poetry section of the same awards in 2003 as well as the reader's choice award
that year.
He was awarded the Prize in modern letters in 2004 and a Fulbright
scholarship to Harvard University in 2010. In 2012 he was part of the ‘Transit
of Venus’ poetry exchange at the Frankfurt book fair and in 2014 represented
New Zealand on the Commonwealth Poets United poetry project which celebrated
the Glasgow Commonwealth Games that year. His latest collection of poetry
The
Ballad of Joe Taihape
was published in 2026. He works as a GP in
Horowhenua.
