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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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The Reverend Dr Thomas Burns from The Cyclopedia of New Zealand
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1897
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Brasch DU414 CZ82
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Photographs
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Wellington: Cyclopedia Co.
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Robert Burns’s nephew, Thomas Burns (1796-1871) was born in Mossgiel, south of Glasgow, three months before the poet’s death. An ordained minister and experienced farmer, the Reverend Thomas became interested and involved in the ‘Otago Settlement Scheme’ in 1844. Four years later, Burns, his wife Clementina, their six children, and several hundred Scottish and English settlers arrived in Dunedin. It was the beginning of the long association between the city of Dunedin and all things Scottish, especially the poet Robert Burns. One of the Reverend Thomas’s legacies, apart from his position as a respected religious leader in the community, was his work to establish a Chair of Literature for the newly founded University of Otago in 1869.
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Bad Things
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Louise Wallace
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2017
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Central PR9642 W2725 B3 2017
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Books
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Wellington: Victoria University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2015: Louise Wallace (b. 1983) <br /><br />Poet, Louise Wallace, has a Masters in Creative Writing from Victoria University, Wellington, and has been published in various international literary journals. <br />She remembers her tenure: ‘<em>The Burns year was a much needed re-ignition for my work. I had become very stuck and lost all momentum while having to work full time for the few years before it. Suddenly, having so much time to read, think, and write, really opened the pathways again. The year ultimately resulted in my third collection of poems, “Bad Things”, as well as the beginning of “Starling”, an online literary journal publishing work by New Zealand writers under 25 years old - now up to its sixth issue</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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The Ones Who Keep Quiet
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David Howard
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2017
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Central PR9641 H71 O59 2017
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Books
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Dunedin: Otago University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2013: David Howard (b. 1959) <br /><br />David Howard talks of his Burns tenure as a ‘coming-of-age’. He was buoyed by the fact that there were no expectations, no money worries, and no deadlines. He remembers the year in his own words: <br />‘<em>I had permission to move through the formerly unresolved moments of my fantasy life, uniting them in two long dramatic poems: “The Peony Pavilion” and “The Speak House”. This was possible because I could close an office door and listen, without distraction, to the silence of the page; only then could I break that silence with lines that surprised even me</em>.’ <br />Three publications came out of the year: <em>The Speak House</em> (2014), <em>A Place To Go On From: The Collected Poems of Iain Lonie</em> [ed.] (2015), and <em>The Ones Who Keep Quiet</em> (2017).
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Shift
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Rhian Gallagher
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2011
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Private Collection; Every effort has been made to trace copyright ownership and to obtain permission for reproduction. If you believe you are the copyright owner of an item on this site, and we have not requested your permission, please contact us at special.collections@otago.ac.nz
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Books
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London: Enitharmon Press
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Salt Water Creek
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Rhian Gallagher
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2003
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Private Collection
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Books
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London: Enitharmon Press; with kind permission
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Burns Fellow 2018: Rhian Gallagher (b. 1961) <br /><br />And so, the Robert Burns Fellowship has once again been taken up. This year, the Fellow is poet Rhian Gallagher. <em>Salt Water Creek</em> is one of her previous publications. <br /><br />In her own words: ‘<em>The Fellowship enables spaciousness and totally recalibrates the creative life…For the first six months I have been immersed in the early history of the Seacliff Asylum, exploring the history in relation to Irish migrants. I have written poems responding to the site and the history, with other poems attempting to enact individual voices using the letter poem and the monologue. This has been a rollercoaster and has pushed my writing practice in new directions…much is in draft. <br />The Burns is enabling on so many levels and not least, I have been living in the place that is central to the work. I am reading a great deal of poetry and enjoying the luxury of reflective time. <br />People in the English & Linguistics Department have been kind and helpful and welcoming. I have tended to go into the office towards the end of the week…Writing poems seems to happen elsewhere but this has always been the case for me I think. Poems just do seem to come from elsewhere</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Whisper of a Crow's Wing
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Majella Cullinane
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2018
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Hocken PR6103 U434 W45 2018
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Books
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Dunedin: Otago University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2014: Majella Cullinane (b. 1975) <br /><br />Majella Cullinane was born and grew up in Ireland but has been resident in New Zealand since 2008. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from St Andrews in Scotland, and is currently researching and writing her PhD at Otago. <br />Cullinane recalls her Burns year: ‘<em>During my Fellowship I worked on a historical novel, which begins in the North Island in 1890, and ends on WWI’s Western Front in 1917. This novel, “The Life of De’Ath”, will be published in October. I also worked on my second poetry collection, “Whisper of a Crow’s Wing”, which was published by Salmon Poetry Ireland and Otago University Press in May this year. I had a tremendously fruitful and productive year, and we liked Dunedin so much we stayed on</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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A Man Melting
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Craig Cliff
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2010
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Central PR9642 C712 M36
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Books
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Auckland: Vintage; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2017: Craig Cliff (b. 1983) <br /><br />Craig Cliff came to Dunedin with two books under his belt – the novel, <em>The Mannequin Makers</em> (2013), and the story collection,<em> A Man Melting</em>, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in 2011. During his Burns year he worked on a novel that involved two weeks research in Italy; wrote reviews, stories and essays; indulged his interest in recurrent neural networks, collaborating with Lech Szymanski from Otago’s Computer Science Faculty to develop ‘found poetry’ from Dunedin Sound lyrics; and attended a range of seminars and hui. He described his Burns tenure as ‘a blessing’. Cliff currently lives in Wellington where he is putting the finishing touches on his next novel and working for the Ministry of Education.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Weathered Bones
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Michele Powles
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2009
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Central PR9642 P696 W4
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Books
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Auckland: Penguin; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2010: Michele Powles (b. circa 1976) <br /><br />Michele Powles is a law graduate, dancer, choreographer, and producer. After completing a Masters in Creative Writing at Auckland University in 2006, she also became an author. Powles was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship in the year that her first novel, <em>Weathered Bones</em>, was published. Powles’s website explains that the novel is ‘the story of Antoinette, a widowed grandmother, Grace, an emotional young wife, and Eliza, the lighthouse keeper from another century.’ In an article published in 2010 in<em> The Otago Daily Times</em>, Powles stated that the recognition as a writer that came with the acceptance as Fellow was very important to her. She spent the year working on two novels and several short stories.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Billy Bird
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Emma Neale
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2016
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Central PR9641 N43 B55 2016
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Books
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Auckland: Vintage; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2012: Emma Neale (b. 1969) <br /><br />Poet, novelist, and current editor of the literary and art magazine, Landfall, Emma Neale remembers her tenure: <br />‘<em>My year as a Burns Fellow helped me to intensify my concentration, pull together a book of poems, realise that one novel idea I had was in fact better played out as a short story; and it enabled me to write three-quarters of the first draft of a novel. Attending poetry seminars and guest lectures changed the course of several of the pieces I was working on – so having close contact with academics, critics, and graduate students who were writing new poetry themselves all helped to add intellectual and creative nutrients to the work I was doing. It was immeasurably enriching and helpful</em>.’ <br /><br />The novel, <em>Billy Bird</em>, is one of the publications to come out of the year, as well as the poetry collection, <em>Tender Machines</em> (2015) and the short story, ‘The Fylgja’.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Decline & Fall on Savage Street
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Fiona Farrell
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2017
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Central PR9641 P65 D43 2017
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Books
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Auckland: Penguin; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2011: Fiona Farrell (b. 1947) <br /><br />Fiona Farrell was on her way to Dunedin to take up residency as the Burns Fellow when the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake struck. She did a u-turn after hearing on the radio of the damage caused. A month later, after shoring up her family and Christchurch home, she headed back to Dunedin. The catastrophic event would colour her whole tenure. <br />Farrell wrote <em>The Broken Book</em>, which began as a book about walking but ‘<em>headed off piste into chapters about walking round Christchurch in 2010 and 2011</em>’. She wrote <em>River Lavalle</em>, an ecological opera about the destruction of New Zealand’s rivers; and she began work on a major project of ‘<em>twinned volumes, the non-fiction “The Villa at the Edge of Empire”, and its accompanying novel, “Decline and Fall on Savage Street”[above right], two books placing the rebuilding of Christchurch in a political, historical and philosophical context.</em>’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Strip
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Sue Wootton
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2016
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Central PR9642 W664 S77 2016
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Books
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Eastbourne, New Zealand: Mākaro Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2008: Sue Wootton (b. 1961) <br /><br />Sue Wootton is a physiotherapist and acupuncturist ‘by trade’, and ‘has a particular interest in the intersection of medicine and the humanities.’ She writes fiction and poetry for children and adults, and is currently a PhD candidate at Otago. Wootton recalls her Burns tenure: <br />‘<em>All of my publications after 2008 have their roots in my year as Burns Fellow. I used the year to read widely, to work on short fiction (which has been published variously since - in “Landfall”, as the short film “Bleat”, and in my short story collection “The Happiest Music on Earth”), and to write the poetry that was collected and published in “By Birdlight”</em>.’ Wootton also co-edits an online magazine called ‘Corpus: Conversations about Medicine and Life’.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Sweeping the Courtyard: The Selected Poems of Michael Harlow
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Michael Harlow
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2014
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Central PR9641 H365 A6 2014
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Lyttelton, New Zealand: Cold Hub Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2009: Michael Harlow (b. 1937) <br /><br />Michael Harlow is many things: a Jungian therapist, a poet, a librettist, and a publisher. In a report written on his Burns year, Harlow describes his tenure as ‘splendid’ and that he relished the opportunity to ‘<em>get down to the creative business of writing</em>’. He particularly valued ‘<em>being an active part of the university community (and the community-at-large), where words and ideas keep flying about looking for a place to settle</em>’. <br />In the report, he thanks the English Department support staff, and remarks on his enjoyment of the library as a resource centre. ‘Stop-Time: Galata Kebabci/Dunedin’ was surely inspired by his time in Dunedin as the Robert Burns Fellow.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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The First Touch of Light
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Ruth Pettis
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2009
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Central PR9642 P485 F57
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Books
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North Shore, New Zealand: Penguin; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2006: Dianne (Ruth) Pettis (1955-2008)<br /><br /> Dianne Pettis had many strings to her bow: novelist, journalist, poet, and scriptwriter. Her first novel, <em>Like Small Bones</em>, was published in 2004. Pettis, a Dunedinite, shared the Robert Burns Fellowship year of 2006 with Catherine Chidgey, and she described her tenure as ‘quite overwhelming and very exciting’. She spent six months, in the latter half of the year, editing her second novel, <em>First Touch of Light</em>; she also began work on a third. Pettis was well-known and had many friends in the Dunedin literary community, and it was incredibly sad when she passed away in 2008. Fellow Robert Burns Fellowship recipient, Sue Wootton, is Pettis’s literary executor.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Mother's Day
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Laurence Fearnley
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2009
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Central PR9641 F419 M68
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Books
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North Shore, New Zealand: Penguin; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2007: Laurence Fearnley (b. 1963) <br /><br />In her own words: <br />‘<em>I was surprised to be awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship…it was one of those heart-stopping moments when I was called up and told I’d got the residency. <br />“Mother’s Day” was written in 2007 while I was Burns Fellow. It is the third of a trilogy. It is set in Invercargill. I was there with a friend one day, and we were driving around. It was windy and all the rubbish wheelie bins had blown into the centre of the road. Later, we drove home via Kaka Point. It was Sunday, Mother’s Day, and family groups were in the cafe eating lunch. I felt quite moved by the scene, that kids and adults had set aside this time to be together. I had grown up in a family that didn’t believe in Mother’s Day (or Father’s Day), and I didn’t go in for it either. But, it clearly meant something to the people around me, and there was a lot of love and respect in that room. So, that’s where the novel started. Rubbish bins and families</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Enduring Legacy: Charles Brasch, Patron, Poet & Collector
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Edited by Donald Kerr
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2003
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Special Collections PR9640 B67 Z5 KD2
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Books
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Dunedin: University of Otago Press in association with University of Otago Library; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2003: Sarah Quigley (b. 1967) <br /><br />Sarah Quigley shared the other half of the Burns Fellowship year with Nick Ascroft. She was a graduate of Oxford University where she had completed her thesis on the life and works of Charles Brasch, one of the founders of the Robert Burns Fellowship. The same year that Quigley arrived in Dunedin for her tenure, the embargo was lifted from all Brasch’s papers and diaries held at the Hocken Library. She soon made herself at home in the Library’s reading room to research his extensive archives. Here is Quigley’s essay, ‘Towards a Biography’, which formed part of Enduring Legacy, a publication that came out as a celebration of the embargo lifting. Quigley currently lives in Berlin.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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The New Ships
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Kate Duignan
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2018
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Provided by publisher
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Books
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Wellington: Victoria University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2004: Kate Duignan (b. 1974) <br /><br />Kate Duignan remembers her Robert Burns Fellowship: <br />‘<em>In Dunedin, in 2004, I was writing about Amsterdam, about two New Zealand boys camping in the Vondelpark in the 1970s, about a golden book with Marc Chagall’s paintings of “Daphnis and Chloe”. Those scenes were cut, and edited, and rearranged, but all the elements remain in the published version of “The New Ships”, which came out earlier this year. </em><br /><br /><em>The year I had the Fellowship, I also bought a mountain bike; I learned, from my flatmate, Simone Drichel, how to make my own muesli; and I got a large amount of dental work seen to. All of this, I’m grateful for, fourteen years on. I still ride the bike, the fillings are sound, and my kids are growing up on Simone’s muesli</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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The Wish Child
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Catherine Chidgey
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2016
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Central PR9641 C5213 W57 2016
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Books
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Wellington: Victoria University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2005 and 2006: Catherine Chidgey (b. 1970) <br /><br />Catherine Chidgey held the Robert Burns Fellowship for a year and a half from the start of 2005. She recalls her tenure: <br />‘<em>I started writing my novel, “The Wish Child”, when I had the Burns. When I look at the book now, I can still remember exactly which sections were written in my quiet little office in the English Department. It was wonderful to feel so supported; I could emerge from the office and talk to people when I wanted to, but I was also given the luxury of being left alone to focus on my work. I loved Dunedin so much, I stayed there for a couple of years following the Fellowship. I still miss it</em>.’ <br />Chidgey went on to gain the University of Otago Wallace Residency at the Pah Homestead, for six months in 2010 to 2011, where she continued her work on <em>The Wish Child</em>.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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As Long As Rain
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Nick Ascroft
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2018
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Special Collections PR9641 A78 A8 2018
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Books
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Wellington: Beet Box Books
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Robert Burns Fellow 2003: Nick Ascroft (b. 1973) <br /><br />Nick Ascroft recalls his tenure as Burns Fellow: ‘<em>My six-month tenure…the best job I ever had, but also the hardest. I swanned in, and Alison Wong showed me around the office she was vacating. There was a ceremonial passing of a mug. I was there to write poems. John Dolan had helped advocate my application to the panel, the story going that he ranted my WINZ poem, “Means Testicles”, to win them around. </em><br /><em>What I ended up working on was my novel. The back of my first poetry collection (2000) had mentioned “he is working on a novel”. These words have haunted the interceding years. Three years later, I was redrafting the first tentative chapter on the Burns office iMac. I also had the Scrabble Maven app, and that’s what 2003 represented more, my deep dive into the world of NZ competitive Scrabble. I am still in the top 20 of NZ players</em>.’ <br />Ascroft finished the novel. <em>As Long as Rain</em>, science fiction set in Southland, was published this year.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Black Marks on a White Page
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Edited by Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti
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2017
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Central PR9637.33 M37 B583 2017
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Auckland: Vintage Imprint, Penguin Random House; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2016: Victor Rodger (b. 1969) <br /><br />Victor Rodger remembers his Burns year: ‘<em>I was a virtual prose virgin until I took up the Burns. Theatre, television, film – they are disciplines I knew – but prose and I were more or less strangers until we started to make each other’s acquaintance at Otago. My first piece of short fiction – the beginning of something that I imagined would become longer – was published in “Landfall” under the title “Skip to the End”. The following year it was re-christened “Like Shinderella” and is included in the acclaimed Maori/Pacifica anthology, “Black Marks on the White Page”. Right towards the end of my residency I began to sketch out potential short stories for a future collection. That initial idea has grown into, Warmish Pacific Greetings, a collection of short stories which deal with two of my favourite topics: sex and race</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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The Keys to Hell
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Jo Randerson
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2004
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Robertson 823 NZ RAN
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Books
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Wellington: Victoria University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2001: Jo Randerson (b. 1973) <br /><br />In her own words: ‘<em>I remember my year as Burns Fellow with great warmth. Getting to know the city of Ōtepoti was a formative time for me – the hills, the peninsula, the coastline, the particular pathways of students in rush hour. The generosity of the English Department. Receiving the Fellowship was a huge boost of confidence, and contributed a great deal to a sense of belonging as a writer. I worked on poems, plays and stories, and the main publication that came out of my time was a second collection of short stories, “The Keys to Hell”</em>.’ <br />The artwork for Randerson’s work was executed by Taika Waititi.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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As the Earth Turns Silver
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Alison Wong
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2009
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Central PR9642 W659 A8
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Books
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North Shore, New Zealand: Penguin; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 2002: Alison Wong (b. 1960) <br /><br />Alison Wong remembers her Burns tenure:<br />‘<em>I loved my year as Burns Fellow. The Fellowship gave financial support but also encouragement and recognition at a time when I had yet to publish a book. Dunedin and Otago/Southland entered into the novel I was writing (“As the Earth Turns Silver”, above) and into poems published in my collection, “Cup” (2006). I am grateful to the many people who helped in my research whether academics or other experts in their fields, and thankful for the warmth of the welcome and enduring friendships. I have a deep affection for this intimate and beautiful city</em>.’<br />Wong’s novel, <em>As the Earth Turns Silver</em>, won the Fiction Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards in 2010.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Being the Remarkable Adventures of the Loblolly Boy and the Sorcerer
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James Norcliffe
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2011
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Southland Campus 828.9933 NOR
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Books
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Auckland: Longacre Press
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Robert Burns Fellow 2000: James Norcliffe (b. 1946) <br /><br />James Norcliffe reflects on his time as Burns Fellow: ‘<em>I look back with considerable delight to my time as Burns Fellow. It seems, in retrospect, a magic time. The English faculty was welcoming and friendly as was the wider Dunedin literary community. I made many friends during my stay, and grew to love the city and its surrounds. The short walk through the botanical gardens from Knox [College] to my room at the University each morning was always a pleasure. <br />It was a most productive year. I did complete my designated project, a novel, “Nodding Donkeys”, but was not really satisfied with it (neither was my agent), and never sought publication. I completed a fantasy novel, “The Assassin of Gleam” which went on to win the Julius Vogel Award, and I wrote many poems, the bulk of which were collected into my fifth collection, “Along Blueskin Road” (2005). Incidentally, during my walks through the gardens I came upon a loblolly pine and this prompted my subsequent fantasy novel, “The Loblolly Boy”</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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An Inward Sun: the World of Janet Frame
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Michael King
Date
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2002
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Central PR9641 F7 Z5 KH3
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Books
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Auckland: Penguin; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1998 and 1999: Michael King (1945-2004) <br /><br />By the time Michael King became Robert Burns Fellow (his tenure would run for a year and a half), he had been writing full time for twenty years. He had already published the biographies of three prominent New Zealanders – Te Puea Herangi, Dame Whina Cooper, and Frank Sargeson. He came to Dunedin for the Fellowship with three years of research on Janet Frame ‘up his sleeve’, and her permission to write her biography. And, this he did – the quintessential <em>Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame</em> (2000). The follow up work, <em>Inward Sun</em>, was published in 2002. Here is a photo of the Burns Fellows Reunion in 1998. King is there (second row, third from left) and so is Frame (front row, second from left). During his career, King gained the moniker of ‘People’s Historian’, and rightly so.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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Power and Chaos
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Paula Boock
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2000
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Robertson 823 BOO
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Books
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Auckland: Random House; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1999: Paula Boock (b. 1964) <br /><br />Paula Boock was born and educated in Dunedin; she is a graduate of the University of Otago. Before her tenure as Burns Fellow, she had four published works, including <em>Dare, Truth, or Promise</em> (1997), which won the NZ Post Children’s Book of the Year Award in 1998. During her tenure, Boock worked on a novel with the provisional title of ‘Boydi’, a work for adults set in Dunedin. Boock is also an accomplished scriptwriter: she has worked on <em>The Insider’s Guide to Happiness</em> (2004), <em>The Insider’s Guide to Love</em> (2005), <em>Bro’Town</em> (2004-09), and <em>Burying Brian</em> (2008). <br /><em>Power and Chaos</em>, is ‘an adaptation of the cult television series’, The Tribe. Boock continues to write and produce scripts through her company Lippy Pictures.
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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What Lies Beneath: A Memoir
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Elspeth Sandys
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2014
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Central PR9641 S26 Z46 2014
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Books
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Dunedin: Otago University Press; with kind permission
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Robert Burns Fellow 1995: Elspeth Sandys (b. 1940) <br /><br />For Elspeth Sandys, her Burns year meant a return to her hometown. She relished visiting old haunts, and Friday morning teas in the English Department. Accommodation was Roger Hall’s York Place house, and she became fit traipsing back and forth up the hill and back to her office in the University. <br />In her own words: ‘<em>“Enemy Territory”, the novel I worked on while I was the Fellow, was published in 1997. It marked a high point for me as a novelist. There would be a long gap before I published another novel. </em><br /><em>My husband, Maurice Shadbolt, came with me to Dunedin but sadly didn’t find it as compatible as I did so left half way through. This was a personal blow, which I now see was a sign of where things were headed in the future. One of the long term consequences of that year has been my decision to write a memoir – “What Lies Beneath” - of growing up in Dunedin</em>.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns