Ports of Call
Peter Bland

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About the Book

Peter Bland is an Auckland poet with an international 
reputation. As a broadcaster in the 1960s he edited 
the national Poetry programme and inaugurated 
New Zealand's first national arts review programme 
Kaleidoscope. He was also a co-founder and artistic 
director of Wellington's Downstage theatre. He has 
published several collections of poetry and in 1977 
was given a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry by the 
British Society of Authors. Recently he has been a 
regular poetry reviewer for the New Zealand Listener.

About the Author

Peter was born in Yorkshire in 1934 and emigrated 
to New Zealand in 1954, where he became closely 
associated with the Wellington group of poets which 
included his close friends Louis Johnson and James 
K Baxter. Since the early 1970s he has divided his 
time between England and New Zealand and travelled 
widely as an international jobbing actor. He is perhaps 
best known in New Zealand for his role as Wesley 
Pennington in the 1985 film Came a Hot Friday, for 
which he won a GOFTA Best Film Actor Award. He 
is married with three children.

PREVIOUS REVIEWS:
'No New Zealand poet is more strikingly visual and none 
has greater graphic energy. His writing has a carefully 
mixed vernacular of deceptive skill and power.'
– Kevin Ireland, New Zealand Listener

'Vivid and witty. His impulse has been to continually 
celebrate the displaced and unremarkable. His approach 
to the twin themes of home and exile is original and he 
has helped to modernise the representation of landscape 
within New Zealand in recent decades. This alone is no 
small achievement.
– Conor O'Callaghan, Times Literary Supplement

One of our finest poets. His rhetoric is accurate and 
restrained and the mixed tone of irony and gentleness 
is very much his own.
– James K Baxter, NZBC


Other books by Peter:
* Let's Meet
* Mr Maui's Monologues
* Loss
* Starkey the Gentle Pirate
* Coming Ashore