Hone Tuwhare
Posted at 9:09AM Thursday 13 Mar 2008
Announcing the death of Hone Tuwhare, at the age of 85, the New Zealand newspaper, the Dominion Post, declared him "NZ's best-loved poet". And they could well have been right. In 2003, he was the first recipient of the prime minister's award for excellence in poetry, a prize determined to a large extent by the popular vote.
Obituary in The Guardian
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