Louis Johnson (poet)
Louis Albert Johnson was a New Zealand poet.
Life
He graduated from Wellington Teachers' Training College.From 1968 to 1980, Johnson lived overseas and traveled widely, with an extended stay in Papua New Guinea.
Johnson worked as a schoolteacher, journalist, and editor of several publications, including the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook, Numbers, and Antipodes New Writing.
Awards
- 1975 New Zealand Book Award for poetry for Fires and Patterns
- 1976 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
Works
- Stanza and Scene
- , The Sun Among the Ruins New Worlds for Old.Onion Winter Apples