Cilla mcqueen biography

          Priscilla Muriel McQueen MNZM is a New Zealand poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry....

          Cilla McQueen

          Born in Birmingham, England, Cilla McQueen moved to New Zealand when she was four years old.

          She ranks amongst the finest poets of her generation, with honours which include three New Zealand Book Awards, the 2009 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement and New Zealand’s Poet Laureateship (2009-2011).

          “If this is the end of the world, then it’s not too bad”, writes McQueen in ‘Weather’.

          Cilla graduated from the University of Otago with a Masters (first-class Hons) in She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Literature, Otago University ().

        1. Cilla graduated from the University of Otago with a Masters (first-class Hons) in She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Literature, Otago University ().
        2. Born in Birmingham, England, Cilla McQueen moved to New Zealand when she was four years old.
        3. Priscilla Muriel McQueen MNZM is a New Zealand poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.
        4. McQueen, Cilla ( –), poet, born in Birmingham, England, arrived in New Zealand in She was educated at Dunedin's Columba College and University of.
        5. Nationality: British and New Zealander.

          6. Location anchors McQueen’s work. If, broadly, her end of the world is New Zealand, it is also, more specifically, her hometown – the country’s most southerly tip, Bluff in Southland. In her charting of its climatic and environmental changes and their impacts upon the manmade (“the wind is fierce, but the house stands fast” – ‘Weather’), she speaks of the human condition in general: of what it means to live in synergy with the elements; of what it means to be alive not just at a geographical edge of existence but at Earth’s chronological closing to