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Peter Olds (New Zealand, 1944) left school at sixteen and after meeting James K. Baxter in Dunedin in the 1960s began writing poetry. He was a Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 1978. In 2005 he was the inaugural recipient of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry. Since Lady Moss Revived in 1972 he has published numerous collections of poetry including the acclaimed, comprehensive 2014 selected poems YOU FIT THE DESCRIPTION. Described by David Eggleton as ‘the laureate of the marginalised’, his most recent collection is Sheep Truck (Cold Hub Press, 2022).
Stephen Oliver is an Australasian poet of fifteen poetry collections, seven chapbooks, and one memoir. Poems translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian. Travelled extensively. Signed on with the radio ship The Voice of Peace 1540 kHz broadcasting in the Mediterranean out of Jaffa, Israel in the late 70s. Free-lanced in Australia/New Zealand as production voice, narrator, newsreader, radio producer, columnist, copy and feature writer, etc. Lived in Australia for 20 years. Currently living in NZ. Represented in the following: Writing To The Wire Anthology, edited by Dan Disney and Kit Kelen, University of Western Australia Publishing, 2016; The Australian Prose Poem Anthology, edited by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington, Melbourne University Press (2020); Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, edited by Tracy Slaughter, Massey University Press 2021. Recently published: Unposted, Autumn Leaves / A Memoir In Essays, Greywacke Press, Canberra, 2021.
Robert Oliver is the eldest son of Tagaloa Faa‘tautele Dennis Oliver, a trail-blazing development practitioner in the South Pacific. Robert was raised in Fiji and has developed restaurants in the United States, ‘farm to table’ resorts in the Caribbean and food programmes in New York City. His books Me‘a Kai (2009) and Mea‘ai Samoa (2014) were written with a mission: to connect Pacific agriculture to the region’s tourism sector. Both were honoured in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, with Me‘a Kai taking the top gong — Best Cookbook in the World 2010. Both books were made into the television series Real Pasifik. In 2014–15 Robert was a judge on the New Zealand version of My Kitchen Rules and in 2015–16 he co-hosted the cooking show Marae Kai Masters on Māori Television. Robert is the founder and host of Pacific Island Food Revolution, a television-led social movement designed to revive the traditional cuisines and food systems of the South Pacific. In 2022 Robert was recognised with the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to food and Pacific communities. Robert lives in Auckland.
Justine Olsen has worked at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa since 2009 as Curator Decorative Art and Design. A Curator of Applied Art at Auckland Museum from 1988 to 1993, her research, publication and exhibition interests lie in New Zealand and international design, especially relating to the way knowledge is disseminated. Her special interests include the Walter Cook collection and the impact of modernism on New Zealand design and contemporary practices including studio jewellery and ceramics. With Michael Fitzgerald, she co-curated the 2012 Te Papa exhibition Walter Cook: A Collector's Quest.