Glenn Colquhoun

Glenn Morton Colquhoun (born 1964) is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner.

Life Colquhoun was born in Papakura, Auckland. He attended the University of Auckland medical school graduating in 1997 with an MB ChB.

In October 2012, he wanted to participate in the Transit of Venus poetry exchange at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany.

Awards Colquhoun's first book, The Art of Walking Upright, won the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry.

Playing God was published in December 2002. The work received the Montana Award for Poetry and the Montana Readers' Choice Award at the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. He was the first poet to be awarded the Readers' Choice Award in a readers' vote. In October 2006, Playing God went platinum with Booksellers New Zealand, making its way onto their premier New Zealand bestsellers list. It is the only poetry collection in New Zealand to make it to platinum, meaning more than 5,000 copies of the book have been sold.

Colquhoun was the convenor of the 2004 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Also in 2004, he received the country’s largest literary award, the Prize in Modern Letters, worth $60,000.

Published poetry "WHEN I AM IN DOUBT"; "TODAY I DO NOT WANT TO BE A DOCTOR"; "IN OTHER WORDS"; "TO THE GIRL WHO STOOD BESIDE ME AT THE CHECK-OUT COUNTER OF WHITCOULL'S BOOKSTORE IN HAMILTON ON TUESDAY"; "AN EXPLANATION OF POETRY TO MY FATHER"; "A MINI MENTAL STATUS EXAMINATION"; "A HISTORY"; "THE OTHER SIDE OF A RIVER", Beyond the Pale

reissued 2007

Other works (essays and poems) Uncle Glenn and Me, 1999 (children’s picturebook) (children’s picturebook) (children’s picturebook) (essay)