Lynley Edmeades

Lynley Edmeades
BornPutāruru, New Zealand
Occupation
Education
Academic background
ThesisThe Hear and Now: Sound and Technology in the Avant-Garde Poetics of Gertrude Stein, John Cage, and Caroline Bergvall (2017)

Lynley Carol Edmeades is a New Zealand poet, academic and editor. She has published two poetry collections and held a number of writers' residencies. As of 2024 she is the editor of the New Zealand literary journal Landfall.

Biography

Edmeades was born in Putāruru.[1] She has an MA in creative writing from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the Queen's University of Belfast and a PhD in avant-garde poetry from the University of Otago.[2][3][4] In 2009 she was the first recipient of the Lavinia Winter Fellowship.[5]

Her first poetry collection, As the Verb Tenses (2016), was long-listed for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and shortlisted for the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Best First Book of Poetry at the Struga Poetry Evenings festival.[6] Cordite Poetry Review described it as "a rare debut collection of poems that dazzles and delights with a profane, childlike wisdom".[1]

Her second poetry collection, Listening In (2019), was long-listed for the Mary and Peter Biggs Poetry Award at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[6][7] Claire Lacey for Landfall Review Online praised it as a "celebration of poetic craft" which "rewards the attentive reader through the accretion of linkages and lineages throughout the text".[8]

In 2018, Edmeades was the Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury and Artist in Residence at Massey University.[2][6] In 2017 she received a highly commended award in the Landfall Essay Competition,[9] and she has also been shortlisted for the Calibre Prize.[6] In 2016 and 2018 her works were selected for inclusion in the Best New Zealand Poems series.[10][11]

As of 2024, Edmeades teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of Otago.[12] In April 2021 she was announced to be the new editor of New Zealand literary magazine Landfall.[2][13][14] The first issue she edited was issue 242 in spring 2021.[15]

In 2022, Bordering on the Miraculous was published, a collaboration between Edmeades and painter Saskia Leek.[16]

Selected works

  • As the Verb Tenses (Otago University Press, 2016)
  • Listening In (Otago University Press, 2019)
  • Bordering on the Miraculous with painter Saskia Leek (Massey University Press, 2022)

References

  1. ^ a b McCarthy, Beornn (18 April 2017). "Review Short: Lynley Edmeades's As the Verb Tenses". Cordite Poetry Review. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "New Landfall editor named – Lynley Edmeades". New Zealand Society of Authors. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  3. ^ Edmeades, Lynley (2013). As I Exemplify: An Examination of the Musical-Literary Relationship in the Work of John Cage (Masters thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/4353.
  4. ^ Edmeades, Lynley (2017). The Hear and Now: Sound and Technology in the Avant-Garde Poetics of Gertrude Stein, John Cage, and Caroline Bergvall (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/7399.
  5. ^ "Lynley wins first writer fellowship". Wairarapa Times-Age. 10 August 2009. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d "Lynley Edmeades". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  7. ^ Kidd, Rob (30 January 2020). "Book awards surprise on Dunedin poet's birthday". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  8. ^ Lacey, Clare (1 April 2020). "Hear Here". Landfall Review Online. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  9. ^ "Landfall Essay Competition". University of Otago. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  10. ^ "Lynley Edmeades – Calm and". Best New Zealand Poems. 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  11. ^ "Lynley Edmeades – The Age of Reason". Best New Zealand Poems. 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  12. ^ "Dr Lynley Edmeades". University of Otago. 10 March 2023. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
  13. ^ "New Landfall editor named". Otago University Press. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  14. ^ Freeman, Lynn (18 July 2021). "Two Landfall editors look back – and forward". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  15. ^ "Landfall 242: Spring 2021". University of Otago. Otago University Press. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  16. ^ Fox, Rebecca (12 May 2022). "The dance of two artists". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 13 May 2022.