Elizabeth Nannestad (born 1956 in Browns Bay, Auckland) is a New Zealand poet.

Life edit

She studied medicine at Otago University and has worked as a doctor and forensic psychiatrist. She lives and works in Auckland.[1]

Her work has been published in Sport, Poetry New Zealand, Landfall and Islands.

Awards edit

Works edit

  • "Immediately After", Seeing voices
  • Jump. Auckland University Press. 1986. ISBN 978-1-86940-001-9.
  • If He's a Good Dog He'll Swim. Auckland University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-1-86940-146-7.
  • Wild Like Me. Victoria University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780864738813.

Anthologies edit

  • My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems (1996)
  • Jenny Bornholdt; Gregory O'Brien; Mark Williams, eds. (1997). An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English. Oxford University Press New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-19-558338-0.
  • Lauris Dorothy Edmond, ed. (2000). New Zealand love poems: an Oxford anthology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-558398-4.

References edit

  1. ^ "| Read NZ".
  2. ^ "New Zealand Book Award for Poetry". Archived from the original on 12 June 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2009.

External links edit