Murray Edmond

Guest writer

Murray Edmond is the author of 20 books of poetry and fiction, and serves as editor of on-line journal, Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics and dramaturge for Indian Ink Theatre Company. For reasons “unknown or unknowable” he still continues to write, with distant and bracing prospect of Waikumete Cemetery in view. Murray was born in Hamilton in 1949.

Photo: Ngataonga Sound & Vision

The Saturday Poem: I Loan Jeanette Fitzsimons my Pen on the Plane by Murray Edmond

A recent, previously unpublished poem by Auckland poet Murray Edmond.

By Murray Edmond | 7th March, 2020

The state of New Zealand poetry in 2018

The state of New Zealand poetry in 2018

Book of the Week: In which Spinoff Review of Books literary editor Steve Braunias commissions Murray Edmond to review an anthology of New Zealand poetry published by Steve Braunias.

By Murray Edmond | 22nd November, 2018

John Keats, now dead

The Friday Poem: ‘A new song of allegiance’ by Murray Edmond

New verse by Auckland writer Murray Edmond.

By Murray Edmond | 26th October, 2018