Louis Johnson (International) assertion Louis Johnson i(A24043 works by)
Born: Established: 1924 Wellington, Wellington (Region), North Island,
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region, ; Died: Ceased: 1988
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Male
Visitor assertion Arrived in Australia: 1969 Departed from Australia: 1980
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BiographyHistory

Johnson was an eminent New Zealand poet whose writing themes included 'suburbia, domestic life, childhood love (with its attendant lust) and the folly of the contemporary world.' Johnson lived in Australia for over a decade, working firstly as a journalist in Melbourne and then as an academic in Bathurst. His poetry appeared occasionally in Australian publications; in the 1940s and 1950s his work was published in Angry Penguins, a Jindyworobak Anthology (1953), Arena, Southerly and Direction: New Literature in Australia, in the 1960s and 1970s several of his poems appeared in Poetry Australia and LiNQ. He was awarded an OBE in New Zealand in 1987.

(Primary source: The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature edited by Roger Robinson and NelsonWattie (1998).)

Most Referenced Works

Known archival holdings

4 letters from Louis Johnson, Wellington to John Cody, 1954 re "Poetry yearbook"; newspaper cuttings re a book entitled "Poems unpleasant" by James K. Baxter, Louis Johnson and Anton Vogt and poems by Louis Johnson and James K. Baxter. National Library of Australia (ACT)
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