James Brown

James Brown’s fifth collection of poetry is Warm Auditorium (Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2012). His first collection won the 1995 Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry Award, and he has been a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards three times. He is the author behind a useful nonfiction booklet called Instructions for Poetry Readings and, in 2005, edited The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand Landscape. James teaches the Poetry Workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, and is part of the Writing Team at Te Papa, New Zealand’s national museum.