For the British film and television director, see Ian Sharp.
Iain Sharp
Born
1953 Glasgow
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Alma mater
University of Auckland
Occupation
Poet, librarian, journalist
Iain Sharp (born 1953 in Glasgow) is a New Zealand poet and critic.
Sharp emigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1961, where they settled in Auckland. He studied at Auckland University where he received a doctorate in English in 1982. His doctoral thesis was titled Wit at several weapons: a critical edition.[1] Soon after completing his PhD he qualified as a librarian from the New Zealand Library School.[2]
He currently works part-time in the Special Collections Department of Auckland Central City Library, and is also a reviewer, critic and columnist for the New Zealand Listener magazine.[3]
^Sharp, Iain (1982). Wit at several weapons: a critical edition (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/2047.
^Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, Oxford University Press, 1997
^The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (1998). Sharp, Iain at New Zealand Book Council
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"men and especially men at war" as a "wonderful challenge". Reviewer IainSharp praised Grace's compassionate treatment of the subject, concluding: "The...
writing and to his involvement in the business world which (according to IainSharp) "infuriated most of the literati who still expected artists and poets...
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novel Tripticks in his collection Sharply Critical (2017). The novel Complicity by Iain Banks is dedicated to Sharp. Sharp was born and brought up in Sussex...
Eggleton 2002 – Jane Hurley 2001 – David Eggleton 2000 – Michael King 1999 – IainSharp 1998 – Graeme Lay New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards List of New...
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of Hone Tuwhare". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 20 May 2015. Introduction by IainSharp (2007). Our Favourite Poems New Zealanders choose their best-loved poems...
described it as "a reliable guide to local poetry". The first annual editor, IainSharp, wrote in his introduction to the 2001 selection that the site's approach...
afraid for his life. Even in this state, Knox recalled, his mind remained sharp and he comforted his fellow prisoners with hopes of release. While the ships...
Press which has published the poetry of New Zealand poets among them IainSharp, Win Jones, and Peter Olds. To date Moisa has published seven of his own...
Siobhan Harvey, Review of TOM: A Novel in Verse, Takahe 69 (2009), p. 45. IainSharp, 'Whizz kid', Sunday Star-Times, 7 December 2003. p. 31. Jan Kemp & Jack...
2000. The reviewer IainSharp describes Ascroft as a "maverick [with] clear links to the crowd-wowing troubadour tradition." Sharp states that the "pleasure...
experimentation and his ironic and whimsical sense of humour. Critic IainSharp writes that Manhire's reputation "rests on a solid, seriously intentioned...
published Bookenz: A Traveller's Guide to New Zealand Books, described by IainSharp as a "handy little leaflet". Maggie Barry (chair in 2007) Clarence Beeby...
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