Identity area
Reference code
BXB/1/1/EDM
Title
Lauris Edmond
Date(s)
- 1986 - 1997 (Creation)
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Subseries
Extent and medium
1 box
Context area
Name of creator
(1924-2000)
Biographical history
Lauris Edmond is one of New Zealand's most distinguished poets. Her career has been extraordinarily compressed. Born in 1924, she did not publish her first collection in 1975. Since then, eleven major titles have appeared, plus "An Autobiography" in three volumes. Her Selected Poems won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1985.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Consists of letters and proofs relating to the published poetry works of Lauris Edmond.