About Louis Johnson
Lived 1924 – 1988 (aged 64). Louis Johnson was a New Zealand poet.
Louis Albert Johnson (27 September 1924 Feilding, New Zealand – 1 November 1988) was a New Zealand poet.
Life He graduated from Wellington Teachers' Training College. From 1968 to 1980, Johnson lived overseas and traveled widely, with an extended stay in Papua New Guinea.
Johnson worked as a schoolteacher, journalist, and editor of several publications, including the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook (1951–64), Numbers (1954–60), and Antipodes New Writing (1987).
Awards 1975 New Zealand Book Award for poetry for Fires and Patterns 1976 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
Works "City Sunday"; "Holidays"; "Kapiti Coast", New Zealand Electronic Poetry Center Stanza and Scene (1945) Roughshod Among the Lilies, (1951) The Sun Among the Ruins (1951) New Worlds for Old (1957).
Onion (1972)
Winter Apples (1984)
Criticism "Starveling Year, poems by Mary Stanley", new zealand electronic poetry centre
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Who was Louis Johnson?
New Zealand poet
When was Louis Johnson born?
Louis Johnson was born on 27 September 1924.
When did Louis Johnson die?
Louis Johnson died on 1 November 1988.
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Louis Johnson was a poet.
What nationality was Louis Johnson?
Louis Johnson was New Zealand.
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· DBpedia: Louis Johnson (poet)
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