Paul Millar

Guest writer

Paul Millar is Professor of English at the University of Canterbury, with extensive publications in New Zealand literature, particularly the poetry of James K. Baxter. His biography of novelist and cultural commentator Bill Pearson was a finalist in the 2011 New Zealand Book Awards. Forthcoming: a collected works of J.C. Sturm.

Jacquie Sturm, fourth from left, with the Napier Girls’ High School ‘A’ basketball team (Photo: Torchbearer, the school’s 1943 yearbook)

Today we publish a poem by J.C. Sturm that has been lost for 70 years

The story of a poem, and how it was rediscovered.

By Paul Millar | 23rd June, 2021

Jacinda Ardern announces culture funding at Te Papa. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

Now is the time to invest in the creative arts

An even more substantial investment in the creative arts will help drive our post-Covid recovery.

By Paul Millar | 29th May, 2020

The Wednesday Poem: Thx 4 the memories by Paul Millar

The Wednesday Poem: Thx 4 the memories by Paul Millar

A poem by Christchurch scholar Paul Millar.

By Paul Millar | 4th September, 2019