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Kenneth Owen Arvidson (born 1938): MA (Auckland), is a New Zealand Poet and Academic.
Early life
Arvidson was born in Hamilton and attended Catholic schools there and in Auckland (particulary, Sacred Heart College).Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). While studying for his MA in English, Arvidson taught senior English at St Peter's College from 1960 to 1963.[1] Notably, he taught English to Sam Hunt in the lower sixth form in 1963.[2] Arvidson endowed a prize for poetry at St Peter's which was awarded in 1962 and 1963 to Christopher Matthews (1962) and Sam Hunt (1963).[1] Arvidson lectured at Flinders University of South Australia 1967-1970 and in 1971 moved to the Unversity of the South Pacific to develop a degree programme in English and Commonwealth literature. He joined the staff of the University of Waikato in 1974 and became an associate professor of English there.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
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