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'''Sam Hunt''' (born in Castor Bay [[Auckland]] on 4 July 1946) is a [[New Zealand]] [[performance poet]].<ref>[http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/huntsam.html HUNT, Sam<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He was educated at [[St Peter's College, Auckland]] and has been referred to as New Zealand's best-known poet.<ref>[http://www.hazard.co.nz/samhunt.html Making Tracks - Hazard Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
'''Sam Hunt''' (born in Castor Bay [[Auckland]] on 4 July 1946) is a [[New Zealand]] [[performance poet]].<ref>[http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/huntsam.html HUNT, Sam<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>a He has been referred to as New Zealand's best-known poet.<ref>[http://www.hazard.co.nz/samhunt.html Making Tracks - Hazard Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


==[[St Peter's College, Auckland|St Peter's College]]==
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Hunt has been a central figure in New Zealand literature since the publication of his first work "From Bottle Creek: Selected Poems 1967–69" in 1969, published when the poet was aged just 23. Hunt's friends and contemporaries included a number of well known New Zealand poets such as [[Denis Glover]], [[Alistair Campbell (poet)|Alistair Campbell]], and [[James K. Baxter]]. Baxter's poem "Letter to Sam Hunt" provided advice to the young Hunt.<ref>http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/huntsam.html</ref>
Hunt was educated at [[St Peter's College, Auckland]] which he attended from 1958 to 1963. At St Peter's Hunt's individualism came into conflict with the Christian Brother's authoritarianism. (He has said that he was strapped at the age of 14 for reciting a poem by James K. Baxter which had sexual imagery, in the classroom.) Life was not made easier by a bad stutter, and poems working through the tensions and fantasies of adolescence became a form of release. Despite school's problems, Hunt, who was a good sprinter and diver, did not leave until asked to. He benefited, in his final year, from having poet Ken Arvidson as his English master, and he obtained University Entrance.<ref>Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, "Sam Hunt", The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1998, pp. 589 and 590.</ref> An annual literature competition at [[St Peter's College, Auckland|St Peter's College]] in [[Auckland]], is named after him.


==Poet==
A number of Hunt's works share common themes and characters, such as the poems "[[Porirua]] Friday Night" and "Girl with Black Eye in Grocer's Shop," both of which feature the same female character.
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Hunt has been a central figure in New Zealand literature since the publication of his first work "From Bottle Creek: Selected Poems 1967–69" in 1969, published when the poet was aged just 23. Hunt's friends and contemporaries included a number of well known New Zealand poets such as [[Denis Glover]], [[Alistair Campbell (poet)|Alistair Campbell]], and [[James K. Baxter]]. Baxter's poem "Letter to Sam Hunt" provided advice to the young Hunt.<ref>http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/huntsam.html</ref> A number of Hunt's works share common themes and characters, such as the poems "[[Porirua]] Friday Night" and "Girl with Black Eye in Grocer's Shop," both of which feature the same female character. In April 2009, New Zealand musician [[David Kilgour (musician)|David Kilgour]], formally of cult band [[The Clean]], released an album on which poems by Hunt were reinvented as song lyrics. <ref>http://www.davidkilgour.com/falling.htm</ref>

An annual literature competition at [[St Peter's College, Auckland|St Peter's College]] in [[Auckland]], Hunt's [[alma mater]], was named after him.

In April 2009, New Zealand musician [[David Kilgour (musician)|David Kilgour]], formally of cult band [[The Clean]], released an album on which poems by Hunt were reinvented as song lyrics. <ref>http://www.davidkilgour.com/falling.htm</ref>


==Published works==
==Published works==

Revision as of 02:44, 14 May 2010

For other people named Sam or Samuel Hunt, see Samuel Hunt (disambiguation).

Sam Hunt (born in Castor Bay Auckland on 4 July 1946) is a New Zealand performance poet.[1]a He has been referred to as New Zealand's best-known poet.[2]

St Peter's College

Hunt was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland which he attended from 1958 to 1963. At St Peter's Hunt's individualism came into conflict with the Christian Brother's authoritarianism. (He has said that he was strapped at the age of 14 for reciting a poem by James K. Baxter which had sexual imagery, in the classroom.) Life was not made easier by a bad stutter, and poems working through the tensions and fantasies of adolescence became a form of release. Despite school's problems, Hunt, who was a good sprinter and diver, did not leave until asked to. He benefited, in his final year, from having poet Ken Arvidson as his English master, and he obtained University Entrance.[3] An annual literature competition at St Peter's College in Auckland, is named after him.

Poet

Hunt has been a central figure in New Zealand literature since the publication of his first work "From Bottle Creek: Selected Poems 1967–69" in 1969, published when the poet was aged just 23. Hunt's friends and contemporaries included a number of well known New Zealand poets such as Denis Glover, Alistair Campbell, and James K. Baxter. Baxter's poem "Letter to Sam Hunt" provided advice to the young Hunt.[4] A number of Hunt's works share common themes and characters, such as the poems "Porirua Friday Night" and "Girl with Black Eye in Grocer's Shop," both of which feature the same female character. In April 2009, New Zealand musician David Kilgour, formally of cult band The Clean, released an album on which poems by Hunt were reinvented as song lyrics. [5]

Published works

  • "From Bottle Creek: Selected Poems 1967–69" (1969)
  • "Bracken Country" (1971)
  • "From Bottle Creek" (1972)
  • "Roadsong Paekakariki" (1973)
  • "South Into Winter: Poems and Roadsongs" (1973)
  • "Time To Ride" (1975)
  • "Drunkard’s Garden" (1977)
  • "Poems for the Eighties : New Poems" (1979)
  • "Collected Poems 1963–1980" (1980)
  • "Running Scared" (1982)
  • "Approaches To Paremata" (1985)
  • "Selected Poems" (1987)
  • "Making Tracks" (1991)
  • "Naming the Gods" (1992)
  • "Down the Backbone" (1995)
  • "Roaring Forties" (1997)
  • "Doubtless: new and selected poems" (2008)
  • "Backroads, Charting a Poet's Life" (2009)

References

  1. ^ HUNT, Sam
  2. ^ Making Tracks - Hazard Online
  3. ^ Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, "Sam Hunt", The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1998, pp. 589 and 590.
  4. ^ http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/huntsam.html
  5. ^ http://www.davidkilgour.com/falling.htm


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