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Heather McPherson (poet)

Heather Avis McPherson (28 May 1942 - 10 Jan 2017)[1] was a feminist poet who started New Zealand's first women's artist collective, and co-founded the first New Zealand feminist journal, Spiral. [2] [3] Spiral grew into a "floating imprint" used by autonomous women's groups across New Zealand to publish books by New Zealand women, including Kerri Hulme's Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People (1984), and The House of the Talking Cat by J C Sturm (Jacquie Baxter, 1983). [3]

Poetry Books [4]

  • A figurehead: a face (1982, Spiral, Wellington)
  • The third myth (1986, Tauranga Moana Press, Tauranga)
  • Other world relations (1991, Old Bags, Wellington)
  • Travel and other compulsions (2004, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, Paekakariki)
  • This Joyous Chaotic Place: Garden Poems (2018, Spiral, Wellington)

Anthologies [4]

  • Remember us: women who love women, from Sappho to liberation (2008, Charlotte Museum Trust, New Zealand)
  • The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse edited by Ian Wedde and Harvey McQueen (1985, Penguin, Auckland)

References

  1. ^ "Obituary in The New Zealand Herald". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ "Heather McPherson: Obituary by Micheal O'Leary, Poetry Notes, Summer 2017" (PDF). Poetry Archive NZ. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ a b Evans, Marian (30 May 2016). "In the beginning there was Heather". Medium - Spiral Collectives. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  4. ^ a b "National Library of New Zealand: Heather McPherson". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)