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David Eggleton was born on 1952 in Auckland, New Zealand, is a New Zealand poet and writer. Discover David Eggleton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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David Eggleton (born 1952) is a New Zealand poet, critic and writer.
Eggleton later moved to Dunedin, where he has been based since the 1980s.
Eggleton's creative output has been diverse, including mixed media recordings involving poetry and music, several volumes of poetry, histories of New Zealand music and photography, and a large number of literary reviews.
He is also an established Art Critic, writing regularly for Art New Zealand, which is New Zealand's major visual arts journal.
Eggleton's work has appeared in a multitude of publications in New Zealand and he has released over 18 poetry books (1986–2001) with a variety of publishers, including Penguin.
Born in Auckland and of mixed European, Tongan, and Rotuman descent, Eggleton spent part his formative years in both Fiji and Auckland, dropping out of school to take up performance music and poetry.
Other awards have included a Robert Burns Fellowship from the University of Otago in 1990, London Time Out's Street Poet of the Year (1985), the 2015 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry, and in 2016 the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (in poetry).
Performance Poet David Eggleton'', won the TV Arts Documentary prize in the 1997 Qantas Media Awards.
In 2022 Eggleton was a guest at the Auckland Writers Festival.
Ian Wedde (in the Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse) describes Eggleton's poem Painting Mount Taranaki as "...inside its history. Its language is a confident if erratic blend of vernacular, lyric, and high demotic; this confidence allows for mobile and ironic cross-currents animating the texture and depth of the language throughout."
Eggleton's poems are frequently iconoclastic or anti-establishment, using mockery to point out the shortcomings of political and social systems, and when read are delivered at a fast, fluent tempo.
He was the editor of New Zealand's premier literary journal, Landfall, from 2010 to 2017.
He is a six-time Montana New Zealand Reviewer of the Year.
His collection of poems, The Conch Trumpet (Otago University Press, 2015), won the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry.
In 2017 he received the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers' Residency.
Eggleton has also been a part of the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival in 2017, 2019 and 2021.
A video, ''For Art's Sake: Art and Politics.
Eggleton has been awarded the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry and in 2019 was appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate, a title he held until 2022.
