Murray Edmond Author

Murray Edmond, poet, playwright, dramaturge, theatre director, editor and critic, was born in Hamilton in 1949. He has published four books of poems with AUP, most recently Fool Moon, a finalist in the 2005 Montana NZ Book Awards, co-edited the influential anthology Big Smoke: NZ Poems 1960-1975 (AUP, 2000), and is the editor of peer reviewed, poetry journal Ka Mate Ka Ora. His poems are included in Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (AUP). Since the 1970s, he has been active in experimental and innovative theatre companies and has taught theatre and drama at The University of Auckland for 25 years.