David Eggleton is a mesmeric performance poet and writer. Of Polynesian descent, he grew up between Fiji and New Zealand. Eggleton’s many awards include PEN Best First Book of Poetry, the Robert Burns Fellowship and, uniquely among New Zealand poets, he was London Time Out’s Street Entertainer of the Year in 1985. He has been five-times Book Reviewer of the Year in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards and has also produced several documentaries, CDs and short films. In 2019, he was appointed the New Zealand Poet Laureate. Eggleton is available to visit schools through the Writers in Schools programme.
Biography courtesy of Read NZ