Helen Lehndorf has been awarded the Massey Visiting Literary Artist for 2013. This is excellent news to cap off a great year for Helen, whose debut collection The Comforter has received great reviews, had a poem selected for Best New Zealand Poems and been included in the Listener's 100 Best Books of 2012. It's also sold out the original print run, and has just been reprinted.
Helen will take up her residency in April, and will be working on her next poetry collection which she says 'will be a creative response to environmental decline and humanity as an endangered species'.
As well as writing her own work, Helen will be involved with Massey's masters of creative writing and will be the first guest at the 2013 Writers Read Series, organised by the School of English and Media Studies, at the Palmerston North City Library.
There's more information on the Massey University site, here: http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=AE97C76F-C3B3-DE12-DEDD-68F167FEC929
Helen will take up her residency in April, and will be working on her next poetry collection which she says 'will be a creative response to environmental decline and humanity as an endangered species'.
As well as writing her own work, Helen will be involved with Massey's masters of creative writing and will be the first guest at the 2013 Writers Read Series, organised by the School of English and Media Studies, at the Palmerston North City Library.
There's more information on the Massey University site, here: http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=AE97C76F-C3B3-DE12-DEDD-68F167FEC929
