Peggy Dunstan

Margaret Elizabeth Dunstan (née Baylis; 28 October 1920 – 7 January 2010) was a New Zealand poet and writer.

Biography Dunstan was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 28 October 1920, and was educated at Wellington East Girls' College. She began writing poetry when she was an adult, and her first poems were published in English and American magazines and in the New Zealand Listener. She initially sent her work to publishers under the name Patrick Duggan, as she thought editors would be more likely to select submissions written by a man. A particular deep: selected poems, Christchurch, N.Z., Pegasus Press, 1974 Sunflowers and sandcastles: a selection of poems for children, Wellington, N.Z., Millwood Press, 1977 In and out the windows, Auckland, N.Z., Hodder and Stoughton, 1980 Behind the stars: poems for children, Auckland, N.Z., Hodder and Stoughton, 1986 Red Horse and the undersea rescue, Wellington, N.Z., Silver Owl Press, 1993 I can do anything, Auckland, N.Z., Heinemann Education, 1995

Memoirs

A Fistful of Summer, Christchurch, N.Z., Whitcoulls, 1981 The Other Side of Summer, Auckland, N.Z., Hodder and Stoughton, 1983