Philip TemplePhilip Temple

Philip Temple is the author of 10 novels and about 30 non-fiction and children's books. He is co-editor, with Emma Neale, of Manifesto Aotearoa 101 Political Poems, published in May. He is currently working on a major biography of Maurice Shadbolt. He has won a number of prizes as well as the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement and was appointed ONZM for his serves to literature. Philip was born in Pudsey, Yorkshire, in 1939..

Poor, tormented Charles Brasch and the Landfall poetry reading that went horribly wrong

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Philip Temple reviews a mammoth volume of journals by Landfall founder Charles Brasch – and recalls a harrowing poetry reading which starred a blind man, a Scotsman, and a drunkard. Charles Brasch is principally remembered for founding Landfall in 1947 and, by editing it for nearly 20 years, his profound influence on the course of … Read more