Three Poets: Marion Rego, Alex Jeune, Margaret Jeune: A HeadworX Anthology
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RRP: $25.00 NZD
Author: Marion Rego et al
ISBN: 9780473510701
Published: 4/29/2020
Pages: 84
Format: Paperback / softback
RRP: $25.00 NZD
Author: Marion Rego et al
ISBN: 9780473510701
Published: 4/29/2020
Pages: 84
Format: Paperback / softback
Marion Rego (nee Quartermain) (b. 1934) made teaching her career but has always loved writing and has been published in several genres - children's stories and songs, travel writing, poetry - and while working for the Correspondence School was involved in broadcasts and written resources for the school, as well as contributing to the New Zealand School Journal. A volume of her poetry, Written on the wind, was published in 2018. Marion Rego performs her work regularly at the Poets to the People readings on the Kapiti Coast. Margaret Jeune was born in Auckland in 1956 and grew up in Wainuiomata. She has a BA in Education and a Post Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood. She has three adult children and four grandchildren. She has been writing since childhood and has had her poetry published in Valley Micropress, Elderberries and Horowhenua Writer's Group anthologies. Three books of her poetry were published by HeadworX in 2019 and she featured in the May 2019 issue of broadsheet. A book of her photographs, A Photo Journey, appeared from ESAW in 2019. Alex Jeune was born in Wellington in 1986. He grew up in Otaki and Levin, and attended Levin's Waiopehu College. He moved to Lower Hutt in 2008 to study at Victoria University of Wellington. He graduated with a BA in Chinese and Sociology. He has had his poetry published in Valley Micropress, in the Horowhenua Writer's Group anthology, Iridescent Blue, and in broadsheet in May 2019. He has read his poetry at the "Poets to the People" Cafe in Kapiti and at the Fringe Bar Open Mic in Wellington City.