Nigel Roberts
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Nigel Roberts (b.1941) was born in New Zealand, and trained in Auckland as a teacher. He met Australian poet Bruce Beaver while apple-picking near Nelson in New Zealand in 1960. He arrived in Sydney a few years later and worked there as an art teacher until his retirement, living on the Balmain peninsula. He published Free Poetry, a mainly roneod poetry and graphics magazine that featured the work of his own generation. He has travelled to the USA.
Material available on this site:
Nigel Roberts, New Zealand, circa 1959
Nigel Roberts: A selection of poems: Poem for Davnet concluding with a line from Bogart / Dialogue with John Forbes / Aberrant poetics 4 — for Mark O’Connor / Beauty / Truth / Genius & Taste etc. / Letter to Jamie Grant / The gulls’ flight / The Kiwi riposte / Japan / The Los Angeles Affirmation / Marketing 1 / Marketing 2 / The House Special / Happy Hour in the Noe Valley Bar & Grill / Talent / From Fredericks of Hollywood / A winter’s tale / The white sulphur-crested cockatoo / This is what happens / Dig 1 & 2
Nigel Roberts: this poem / is / for charles buckmaster
(first published in New Poetry, April 1973)
John Tranter reviews In Casablanca for the Waters (1977), by Nigel Roberts.
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