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Meg Campbell (Aline Margaret Andersen) was born on 19 November, 1937 in Palmerston North, New Zealand, is a New Zealand poet. Discover Meg Campbell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

Popular As Aline Margaret Andersen
Occupation Poet
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 19 November 1937
Birthday 19 November
Birthplace Palmerston North, New Zealand
Date of death 17 November, 2007
Died Place Pukerua Bay, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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Her husband is Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (m. 1958)

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1937

Aline Margaret Campbell (Andersen, 19 November 1937 – 17 November 2007) was a New Zealand poet.

1958

She gave up her promising acting career shortly after marrying fellow poet Alistair Te Ariki Campbell in 1958, having met him the previous year at a book party.

1960

They had three children together, and in the early 1960s moved to the Kāpiti Coast region.

After her first child was born, Campbell suffered from a combination of postpartum depression and bipolar disorder, and had a nervous breakdown.

1969

She began writing in 1969, and became known as a poet after publishing several well-received collections in the 1980s.

Many of her poems deal with issues of mental illness and domestic life, and with her life on the Kāpiti Coast.

Campbell was born and raised in Palmerston North.

She had a difficult childhood and was sent to boarding school at age eight; she was later expelled from Samuel Marsden Collegiate School in Wellington.

She studied acting at Victoria University for a period and obtained a speech and drama qualification from Trinity College.

In 1969 she began writing poetry at Porirua Psychiatric Hospital, wanting to regain her identity.

The topic of her long-term experience with depression and mental institutions is expressed through a variety of her poetry.

1978

Campbell's first published poem was "Solitary Confinement" in 1978 in the New Zealand Listener.

At this time she was beginning to recover from her depression.

1981

Her first collection of poetry The Way Back (1981) won the PEN Best First Book Award for poetry.

1996

She published four further collections during her lifetime, and was featured in the collection How Things Are (1996) along with three other New Zealand poets.

2007

Campbell died at home in Pukerua Bay in 2007.

Her final collection, Poems Adrift, was published one day after her death.

2008

In 2008 her husband edited and published a collection of poems written by each of them titled It's Love, Isn't It?.

They had agreed before their death that they would publish a collection together; reviewer Graham Brazier said their "poems of enduring love have a truly timeless quality".

Her personal papers, including early drafts of her poems, are held by the National Library of New Zealand.

Campbell's poetry expresses her personal experiences and struggles, and often demonstrates wit and a sense of humor.

In The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Roger Robinson suggests that the role of mythology within her poetry speaks about gender roles and sexuality as well as domesticity; he states that Campbell's poetry "can form unexpected links, between the mythic and the domestic, for instance, as in 'Maui', or the universal and psychological, as in 'Things Random' or 'Evolution'."

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English and Robinson both describe Campbell's voice as strong.

Her work often features a sense of place in the Kāpiti Coast region, where she lived for most of her life.