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Ian Wedde


Born
in Blenheim, New Zealand
October 17, 1946

Genre
Poetry


New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator.

Ian Wedde is the author of eight novels, fifteen collections of poetry, two collections of essays, and a number of anthologies and art monographs. His most recent novel is The Reed Warbler (2020), and The Little Ache – a German notebook, written while he was in Berlin to research The Reed Warbler, was published in July 2021. His memoir, The Grass Catcher: A Digression About Home, was published in 2014, and his Selected Poems in 2017. Decentred: Selected Essays 2004–2020 will be published in late 2022.

Ian is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships and grants. Among the most recent are the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship at Menton in France (2005), a Fulbr ...more

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Average rating: 3.67 · 140 ratings · 19 reviews · 53 distinct works
The Reed Warbler
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — 4 editions
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Symmes Hole
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1960 — 2 editions
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The Grass Catcher: a digres...
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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Trifecta
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Three Regrets and a Hymn to...
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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The shirt factory and other...
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions
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Chinese Opera
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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The Lifeguard: Poems 2008-2013
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1975
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