'Brown is exuberant, intelligent and genuinely funny.' - Hamesh Wyatt, Otago Daily Times. 'This is poetry that grabs hold of the world and gives it a shake.' - Hugh Roberts, Listener.
James Brown is the author of the poetry collections Favourite Monsters, The Year of the Bicycle, and Go Round Power Please, which won the 1996 Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry Award. He has been a finalist in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards three times, has received a Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary and a Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship, and has been Writer in Residence at Canterbury University and Victoria University. He has also written the non-fiction booklet Instructions for Poetry Readings, and edited The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand Landscape.
“Brown is exuberant, intelligent, and genuinely funny.” — Hamesh
Wyatt, Otago Daily Times
“This is poetry that grabs hold of the world and gives it a shake.”
— Hugh Roberts, columnist, New Zealand Listener
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