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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Coal Flat
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Bill Pearson
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1963
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Brasch PR9641 P47 C6
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Books
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Auckland: Longman Paul
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Robert Burns Fellow 1979: Michael Noonan (b. 1940) <br /><br />Michael Noonan describes his year: ‘<em>The Burns Fellowship provided a year of freedom to work on projects of my choosing without the pressure of deadlines or worries about where the next cheque was coming from. A special highlight was to be invited by both OUDS [Otago University Dramatic Society] and the Globe Theatre – with whom I had been active in my student days at Otago – to direct plays of my choosing. At the Globe, I directed a wonderful cast in “Words Upon The Windowpane” by W.B. Yeats. For OUDS, it was a study of the New Zealand Temperance Movement with both the Mozart and Frances Hodgkins Fellows involved. It was a year of relaxed creativity, a welcome opportunity to explore ideas for future projects</em>.’ <br />Noonan also worked on an adaptation for television of Bill Pearson’s <em>Coal Flat</em>, a novel about the West Coast Mining town of Blackball. Unfortunately, it never made it to the small screen due to cutbacks in broadcast budgets.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Beethoven's Guitar
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Peter Olds
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1980
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Central PR9641 O4 B4
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Books
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Dunedin: Caveman Press
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Robert Burns Fellow 1978: Peter Olds (b. 1944)<br /><br />Although he was born in Christchurch, Peter Olds has been living in Dunedin since the mid-1960s. He met James K. Baxter in the city, and the older poet influenced him and his work, as did other former Burns Fellows, such as Hone Tuwhare and Janet Frame. Olds was first published in 1972, when <em>Lady Moss Revived</em> came out of Caveman Press; Lawrence Jones, in <em>Nurse to the Imagination</em>, describes him as ‘an anti-elitist poet of the youth culture’. Olds’s tenure as Burns Fellow in 1978 was a one-term stint, and some of the poems included in <em>Beethoven’s Guitar</em> were written during his time at Otago. Olds has been described in recent years as a ‘living legend’; he continues to live and work in the city.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Cutting attached to a videorecording of 'Dead Certs'
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Rawiri Paratene and Ian Mune
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15 October, 1995
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Storage O98333 4
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Newspapers
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___
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Robert Burns Fellow 1983: Rawiri Paratene (b. 1954) <br /><br />Among other things, Rawiri Paratene wrote a draft of his drama, <em>Erua</em>; worked on the teleplay, <em>Dead Certs</em>; performed his poems in venues around Dunedin; and completed a series of lectures called ‘Constantly in Pursuit of Joy’. He enjoyed having an office where he would work at all hours of the day and night – he even named it – ‘Zong’. <br />Paratene describes his time as Burns Fellow: ‘<em>I confess that, at the time of writing, my application was probably the best thing I’d written at that stage. It was certainly imaginative, claiming I had completed a radio play tackling the dilemma of conservation, called “Save Us a Place to Live” – I hadn’t. So when I got a response that I was on the short list and that they were interested in the radio script…I quickly (overnight) drafted the play…[it] wasn’t bad. I completed the script in my tenure…The Fellowship was a fruitful and important part of my development as a dramatist</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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New Zealand Explorers: Great Journeys of Discovery
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Philip Temple
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1985
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Central DU420 T883
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Books
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Christchurch: Whitcoulls
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Robert Burns Fellow 1980: Philip Temple (b. 1939) <br /><br />Philip Temple writes both fiction and non-fiction. Most of his earlier works have a distinct ‘outdoors’ flavour: books on mountains, exploration, New Zealand landscapes, and the environment. These reflected his own personal pursuits and experiences in mountaineering and adventuring. <br />In his own words, he describes his year as Fellow: ‘<em>While I held the Burns in 1980 I completed revision of “Beak of the Moon”, and undertook a great deal of research for another novel…my tenure of the Burns allowed me to apply for the higher degree of Doctor of Literature…which was awarded after examination of my work to 2004</em>.’ <br />Temple also began planning <em>New Zealand Explorers</em> in his Burns year. He returned to live in Dunedin in 1990.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Wheels Within Wheels
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Bill Sewell
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1983
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Central PR9641 S32 W5
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Books
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Dunedin: University of Otago Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1981 and 1982: Bill Sewell (1951-2003)<br /><br /> Bill Sewell was born and grew up in Europe. His parents were academics and came to live in New Zealand in 1965. Sewell studied German at the University of Auckland, and completed his PhD thesis on the German poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929), at Otago. Sewell would later go on to lecture in the German Department in the same institution. His Burns year was spent writing poetry. Many of the poems were published in <em>Solo Flight</em> (1982), and<em> Wheels Within Wheels</em>. It is clear from these poems that the landscapes surrounding Dunedin, and the weather Sewell experienced in the city had a definite influence on his writing.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Bert & Maisy
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Robert Lord
Date
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1988
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Central PR9641 L68 B4
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Books
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Dunedin: University of Otago Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1987: Robert Lord (1945-92) <br /><br />In a letter from Robert Lord to Jeff Kirkus-Lamont, dated 4th February, 1989, Lord recalled his tenure as Fellow. He listed his activities as follows: The play, <em>The Affair</em>, was completed and performed in Dunedin, Wellington, and Palmerston North; <em>China Wars</em>, a play, occupied much of Lord’s time and was performed in Wellington, Christchurch, and at time of writing, was being rehearsed in New York; a radio play, <em>The Body in the Park</em>, was completed and purchased by Radio New Zealand; the play, <em>Bert and Maisy</em>, was recorded, broadcast, and subsequently published; <em>Country Cops</em>, was revised, published in New York in 1989, and staged in Vermont the same year; and also he organised a Dunedin Playwrights Workshop at the Globe Theatre. A busy year for someone whose intention was to escape the ‘rat race’ of New York.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Benzina
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Cilla McQueen
Date
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1988
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Central PR9641 M238 B4
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Books
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Dunedin: John McIndoe
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Robert Burns Fellow 1985 and 1986: Cilla McQueen (b. 1949) <br /><br />Cilla McQueen describes in her own words her tenure as Burns Fellow: <em>‘The Fellowship gave me carte blanche, I assumed, to stretch the bounds of the poetry I knew. In 1985, joyful collaboration with local musicians produced improvised theatre pieces such as “A Maniac at the Joystick” at Allen Hall. A solo performance, “Shocks and Ripples”, was directed by Lisa Warrington. A Fulbright Writer’s Fellowship took me to Stanford University for a month-long conversation on radio drama with Martin Esslin. <br />In 1986, a “Spinal Fusion Diary” linked words with drawings. “Fancy Numbers” at Marama Hall incorporated half a piano, a drama class and two performance artists, the score a series of drawings of Otago Peninsula. “Bad Bananas”, with guitarists Ali Mcdougall and Jim Taylor, enjoyed several outings. Some poems and songs from these years found a place in “Wild Sweets” (1986) and “Benzina”</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Bones
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Brian Turner
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1985
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Central PR9641 T73 B6
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Books
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Dunedin: John McIndoe
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Robert Burns Fellow 1984: Brian Turner (b. 1944) <br /><br />By the time Brian Turner became Robert Burns Fellow in 1984, the English Department had been housed in the Arts (Burns) Building for about 15 years. Turner had an office on the third floor, with a view of Flagstaff to the northwest. <br />He describes his time: ‘<em>What a boost it gave, and has continued to give to New Zealand writers and our writing in general. For me, as a writer and personally, I felt as if I came of age in the 1980s. In all sorts of ways, the ‘80s were the happiest of times for me. My partner backed and supported me wholeheartedly. Being awarded the Burns confirmed and reinforced my hopes to be seen as a versatile New Zealand writer with truly worthwhile things to offer</em>.’ <br />During his tenure, Turner wrote poems for <em>Bones</em>, the play, <em>Fingers Up</em>, three essays, and a ‘sequence of poems on the naturalist and explorer Richard Henry’.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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'Hooper's Inlet' from Benzina
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Cilla McQueen
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1988
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Central PR9641 M238 B4
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Books
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Dunedin: John McIndoe
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A poem by Robert Burns Fellow, Cilla McQueen. Hooper's Inlet is on the Otago Peninsula in Dunedin
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Sleeper
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John Dickson
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1998
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Central PR9641 D53 S58
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Books
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Auckland: Auckland University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1988: John Dickson (1944-2017) <br /><br />John Dickson was born in Milton and graduated with an English degree from the University of Otago. For many years, he worked at the Bill Robertson Library in Dunedin before being made redundant in 2007. Dickson began writing poetry as a teenager, and was first published in 1986 with <em>What Happened on the Way to Oamaru</em>. He read philosophy, loved jazz, and was an accomplished linguist. His poetic influences included T.S. Eliot, Blaise Cendrars, and Francis Ponge. During his tenure as Robert Burns Fellow, Dickson ‘began’ the poems that would later be published in <em>Sleeper</em>. In the acknowledgments to the volume, he states that he felt ‘honoured’ to gain the Fellowship for a year.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Empty Orchestra
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David Eggleton
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1995
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Central PR9641 E51 E6
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Books
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Auckland: Auckland University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1990: David Eggleton (b. 1952) <br /><br />David Eggleton is diverse in his literary pursuits – he writes poetry and short fiction, is an award-winning reviewer, was editor of <em>Landfall</em> from 2010 to 2017, and this year he takes up the Fulbright Pacific Writer's Residency at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa. This list certainly reflects only a small percentage of his many accomplishments. <br />He describes his Burns tenure as follows: ‘<em>[I] wrote poems [“Empty Orchestra”], stories and essays as well as contributing reviews and articles to a variety of publications. Committed to poetry in performance, [I] also gave a large number of readings in a range of venues, and worked on recording a CD collaboration of …poetry set to music by a number of Otago-based musicians which was later released by the Wellington record label Jayrem Records</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Jeannie Once
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Renée
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1991
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Central PR9641 R46 J4
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Books
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Wellington: Victoria University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1989: Renée (b. 1929) <br /><br />Renée describes her tenure: ‘<em>Only the second time I’d been to Dunedin...The university environment seemed alien at first but became less so as the year moved on. Or, maybe I cared less. I worked on a play, “Jeannie Once”, which, a year or so later, had its first performance at Fortune Theatre, and my first novel, “Willy Nilly” (1990), was launched in the Staff bar one Friday night. <br />Although I felt out of my depth, I enjoyed Friday afternoons during the winter term when some third year students came to discuss their work. I am certain I was no help to them but they entertained and amused me. My enduring memory is of the friends I made and the fun we had and the way no-one in Dunedin is surprised or puzzled or disapproving when you say in answer to the question, ‘What do you do?’, ‘I’m a writer’…a very important year for me in all sorts of ways, both professional and personal. I grew to love the city, the South, and of course not having to worry about money for that year was a real boon</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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The Hard Light
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Stuart Hoar
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1998
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Central PR9641 H62 H37
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Books
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Auckland: Penguin; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1993: Stuart Hoar (b. 1957) <br /><br />Stuart Hoar recalls his Fellowship year: ‘<em>What a great year it was for me. I was made very welcome by the English Department and enjoyed living in Dunedin so much that I stayed on there until the beginning of 1997. The Fellowship meant I could write full time and so I produced two stage plays, a radio play, and also started researching a novel [“The Hard Light”] that was published in 1998. </em><br /><em>I recently was in Dunedin for a brief stay and was reminded how much I enjoyed living in the city back then, and how much I enjoyed the landscape, the great countryside walks so near to the city, the surrounding beaches and having access to Central Otago. These experiences are now part of who I am. For me the Burns Fellowship was an honour and a wonderful experience (the two don’t always go together) for which I am very grateful. Long may it continue!</em>’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Minnie Dean: Her Life and Crimes
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Lynley Hood
Date
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1994
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Central HV6541 N52 S64
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Books
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Auckland: Penguin; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellowship1991: Lynley Hood (b. 1942) <br /><br />Lynley Hood was born in Hamilton, and moved to Dunedin in 1961 to begin study for a Masters in Physiology at Otago. She worked as a medical researcher until 1979 when she became a full-time freelance writer. During her Robert Burns Fellowship year, she worked on the biography and story surrounding the notorious Southland infanticide, Minnie Dean (1844-95). Hood’s subsequent book, <em>Minnie Dean: Her Life and Crimes</em>, was a finalist for the New Zealand Book Awards in 1995. She has had several awards during her literary career and was made Doctor of Literature (examined) by the University of Otago in 2003. Hood continues to live in Dunedin.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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A Many Coated Man
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Owen Marshall
Date
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1995
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Robertson 823 MAR
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Books
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Dunedin: Longacre Press
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Robert Burns Fellow 1992: Owen Marshall (b. 1941) <br /><br />Owen Marshall describes his Burns year: ‘<em>Holding the Burns Fellowship in 1992 was a privilege and a pleasure. The assured income, amenities and support gave me the opportunity to complete my first published novel, “A Many Coated Man”, which was subsequently short listed for the Montana Book Awards. </em><br /><em>Important as the financial assistance is, the validation of one’s craft is more significant and lasting. As well as assisting my writing, my tenure brought with it the benefit of being within the fraternity of Otago writers and artists, many of whom are friends. Whenever I now visit Dunedin and the university, I recall my good fortune to have been a Burns Fellow</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
Date
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Still Talking
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Bernadette Hall
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1997
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Central PR9641 H335 S85
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Books
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Wellington: Victoria University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1996: Bernadette Hall (b. 1945) <br /><br />Bernadette Hall recalls her time in Dunedin as Burns Fellow: ‘<em>In 1996, my family drove me down from Christchurch to Dunedin to deliver me for the year’s Burns Fellowship…in a “bread van”, a converted campervan called “Martha”. My mother, who had died on Christmas Eve, her 85th birthday, was there too, her ashes in a green cardboard box. Our first task on entering the city was to lay my mother’s ashes to rest in the Anderson’s Bay cemetery, in the grave of my father, Jim. <br />I was solitary a lot of the time in 1996, in mourning, and yet also breaking into new freedoms. “Still Talking” published in 1997 was the result. Anthony Ritchie turned one of the “Tomahawk Sonnets” into a song. At the moment, my desire is to see the beautiful Stations of the Cross [Joanna Margaret Paul] painted in the Church of St Mary Star of the Sea in Port Chalmers in the 1970s…fully embraced as being among the amazing gifts that Dunedin, my hometown, has to offer</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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The End of the Century and Other Stories
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Christine Johnston
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1999
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Special Collections
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Books
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Christchurch: Canterbury University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1994: Christine Johnston (b. 1950) <br /><br />Christine Johnston remembers her time as Burns Fellow: ‘<em>The Burns Fellowship could not have come to me at a better time. I had published my first novel “Blessed Art Thou Among Women” and had started on another. I was in the habit of writing short stories and several had been published or broadcast in the previous decade. A novel for young readers, [“The Haunting of Lara Lawson”], was about to be published [1995]. Blissfully optimistic, I enjoyed the luxury of a stipend and a pleasant room in the English Department. For that “annus mirabilis”, I am forever indebted to Charles Brasch and the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>.’ <br />Stories that Johnston wrote that year were among those published in The End of the Century and Other Stories.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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The Company of a Daughter
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Paddy Richardson
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2000
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Central PR9641 R473 C65
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Books
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Wellington: Steele Roberts; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1997: Paddy Richardson (b. 1950) <br /><br />Paddy Richardson recalls her Burns tenure: ‘<em>[The] year was highly significant in my development as a writer. I was astounded to be offered this opportunity, and I drew confidence from that. Best of all, though, it gave me what all writers long for: enough time, funding, and the space to work consistently on projects that I’d tried to fit within the demands of work and family. <br />I worked on and mainly completed “The Company of a Daughter”, and a collection of short stories, “If We Were Lebanese”. I gained a lot in terms of working out the process of writing a novel; how the first draft is always tough for me and the main object is to make it as full and comprehensive as possible, but to also push on to finish it so I have something solid to work with. The year also reminded me of how essential writing is to me, and the memory of how fulfilling it was influenced my later decision to become a full-time writer</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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What Lies Beneath: A Memoir
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Elspeth Sandys
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2014
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Central PR9641 S26 Z46 2014
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Books
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Dunedin: Otago University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1995: Elspeth Sandys (b. 1940) <br /><br />For Elspeth Sandys, her Burns year meant a return to her hometown. She relished visiting old haunts, and Friday morning teas in the English Department. Accommodation was Roger Hall’s York Place house, and she became fit traipsing back and forth up the hill and back to her office in the University. <br />In her own words: ‘<em>“Enemy Territory”, the novel I worked on while I was the Fellow, was published in 1997. It marked a high point for me as a novelist. There would be a long gap before I published another novel. </em><br /><em>My husband, Maurice Shadbolt, came with me to Dunedin but sadly didn’t find it as compatible as I did so left half way through. This was a personal blow, which I now see was a sign of where things were headed in the future. One of the long term consequences of that year has been my decision to write a memoir – “What Lies Beneath” - of growing up in Dunedin</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Power and Chaos
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Paula Boock
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2000
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Robertson 823 BOO
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Auckland: Random House; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1999: Paula Boock (b. 1964) <br /><br />Paula Boock was born and educated in Dunedin; she is a graduate of the University of Otago. Before her tenure as Burns Fellow, she had four published works, including <em>Dare, Truth, or Promise</em> (1997), which won the NZ Post Children’s Book of the Year Award in 1998. During her tenure, Boock worked on a novel with the provisional title of ‘Boydi’, a work for adults set in Dunedin. Boock is also an accomplished scriptwriter: she has worked on <em>The Insider’s Guide to Happiness</em> (2004), <em>The Insider’s Guide to Love</em> (2005), <em>Bro’Town</em> (2004-09), and <em>Burying Brian</em> (2008). <br /><em>Power and Chaos</em>, is ‘an adaptation of the cult television series’, The Tribe. Boock continues to write and produce scripts through her company Lippy Pictures.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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An Inward Sun: the World of Janet Frame
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Michael King
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2002
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Central PR9641 F7 Z5 KH3
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Books
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Auckland: Penguin; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1998 and 1999: Michael King (1945-2004) <br /><br />By the time Michael King became Robert Burns Fellow (his tenure would run for a year and a half), he had been writing full time for twenty years. He had already published the biographies of three prominent New Zealanders – Te Puea Herangi, Dame Whina Cooper, and Frank Sargeson. He came to Dunedin for the Fellowship with three years of research on Janet Frame ‘up his sleeve’, and her permission to write her biography. And, this he did – the quintessential <em>Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame</em> (2000). The follow up work, <em>Inward Sun</em>, was published in 2002. Here is a photo of the Burns Fellows Reunion in 1998. King is there (second row, third from left) and so is Frame (front row, second from left). During his career, King gained the moniker of ‘People’s Historian’, and rightly so.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Being the Remarkable Adventures of the Loblolly Boy and the Sorcerer
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James Norcliffe
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2011
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Southland Campus 828.9933 NOR
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Books
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Auckland: Longacre Press
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Robert Burns Fellow 2000: James Norcliffe (b. 1946) <br /><br />James Norcliffe reflects on his time as Burns Fellow: ‘<em>I look back with considerable delight to my time as Burns Fellow. It seems, in retrospect, a magic time. The English faculty was welcoming and friendly as was the wider Dunedin literary community. I made many friends during my stay, and grew to love the city and its surrounds. The short walk through the botanical gardens from Knox [College] to my room at the University each morning was always a pleasure. <br />It was a most productive year. I did complete my designated project, a novel, “Nodding Donkeys”, but was not really satisfied with it (neither was my agent), and never sought publication. I completed a fantasy novel, “The Assassin of Gleam” which went on to win the Julius Vogel Award, and I wrote many poems, the bulk of which were collected into my fifth collection, “Along Blueskin Road” (2005). Incidentally, during my walks through the gardens I came upon a loblolly pine and this prompted my subsequent fantasy novel, “The Loblolly Boy”</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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As the Earth Turns Silver
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Alison Wong
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2009
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Central PR9642 W659 A8
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Books
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North Shore, New Zealand: Penguin; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2002: Alison Wong (b. 1960) <br /><br />Alison Wong remembers her Burns tenure:<br />‘<em>I loved my year as Burns Fellow. The Fellowship gave financial support but also encouragement and recognition at a time when I had yet to publish a book. Dunedin and Otago/Southland entered into the novel I was writing (“As the Earth Turns Silver”, above) and into poems published in my collection, “Cup” (2006). I am grateful to the many people who helped in my research whether academics or other experts in their fields, and thankful for the warmth of the welcome and enduring friendships. I have a deep affection for this intimate and beautiful city</em>.’<br />Wong’s novel, <em>As the Earth Turns Silver</em>, won the Fiction Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards in 2010.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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The Keys to Hell
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Jo Randerson
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2004
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Robertson 823 NZ RAN
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Books
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Wellington: Victoria University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2001: Jo Randerson (b. 1973) <br /><br />In her own words: ‘<em>I remember my year as Burns Fellow with great warmth. Getting to know the city of Ōtepoti was a formative time for me – the hills, the peninsula, the coastline, the particular pathways of students in rush hour. The generosity of the English Department. Receiving the Fellowship was a huge boost of confidence, and contributed a great deal to a sense of belonging as a writer. I worked on poems, plays and stories, and the main publication that came out of my time was a second collection of short stories, “The Keys to Hell”</em>.’ <br />The artwork for Randerson’s work was executed by Taika Waititi.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Black Marks on a White Page
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Edited by Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti
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2017
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Central PR9637.33 M37 B583 2017
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Books
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Auckland: Vintage Imprint, Penguin Random House; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2016: Victor Rodger (b. 1969) <br /><br />Victor Rodger remembers his Burns year: ‘<em>I was a virtual prose virgin until I took up the Burns. Theatre, television, film – they are disciplines I knew – but prose and I were more or less strangers until we started to make each other’s acquaintance at Otago. My first piece of short fiction – the beginning of something that I imagined would become longer – was published in “Landfall” under the title “Skip to the End”. The following year it was re-christened “Like Shinderella” and is included in the acclaimed Maori/Pacifica anthology, “Black Marks on the White Page”. Right towards the end of my residency I began to sketch out potential short stories for a future collection. That initial idea has grown into, Warmish Pacific Greetings, a collection of short stories which deal with two of my favourite topics: sex and race</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns