Glenn Colquhoun

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Glenn Colquhoun


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Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand
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Glenn Colquhoun is a poet and doctor. He was born in 1964 and grew up in South Auckland. He went to school at the South Auckland Seventh-day-adventist primary school and later the Auckland Adventist High School in Mangere. He went on to study theology for two years at Avondale College, the church’s tertiary institution in Australia and completed a BA in English and Education at Auckland University in 1987. He later attended Auckland Medical School, graduating in 1996.

In 1994 he took a year off his medical training and spent that time in Te Tii, a small Māori community in Northland. This began a lifelong relationship with the community and its people. His first collection of poetry, The art of walking upright, was written about this communi
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Average rating: 4.26 · 226 ratings · 28 reviews · 15 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Art of Walking Upright

4.45 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1999
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Letters To Young People

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Late Love: Sometimes Doctor...

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Jumping Ship and other essays

3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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How We Fell:

4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2006
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Holding the Aces: Adverse C...

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North South

4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009
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Mr Short, Mr Thin, Mr Bald ...

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Ngā Wāhine E Toru / Three w...

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Uncle Glenn and Me Too

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“It seems after so many years of chasing my childhood sweetheart I have found her hiding in the eyes of that girl behind the bike shed. I have expected for years that medicine should leak into my poetry but never dreamed that poetry might leak into my medicine in such a way. On my best days there is no separation at all between both disciplines. I feel as though I have discovered a late love and, like all of those who have, it is all the more sweet for taking so long to wander by.”
Glenn Colquhoun, Late Love: Sometimes Doctors Need Saving as Much as Their Patients

“This is important because so often the path to establishing the confidence and engagement of a young person is through growing their strengths rather than concentrating on what is wrong with them.”
Glenn Colquhoun, Late Love: Sometimes Doctors Need Saving as Much as Their Patients



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