Ruth Dallas
A writer's life
$42.20
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
23 October 2025
Summary
Ruth Dallas (1919-2008) is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinctive, respected and influential literary voices. Yet despite her international success and her enduring presence as one of the country’s most anthologised poets, the full extent of her contribution to New Zealand literature has been relatively unexamined and under-appreciated. Now Diana Morrow’s comprehensive biography, Ruth Dallas: A writer’s life, redresses this imbalance, and gives this outwardly reserved South I…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781991348128 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1991348126 |
| Author: | Diana Morrow |
| Publisher: | Otago University Press |
| Imprint: | Otago University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 170mm |
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‘No other poems written in this country move me & haunt me as Ruth’s do.’ -Charles Brasch
About The Author
Diana Morrow
Diana Morrow, based in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, is the author of Kate Edger: The life of a pioneer feminist (Otago University Press, 2021). She has also co-authored several local histories, among them Urban Village: The story of Ponsonby, Freeman’s Bay and St. Mary’s Bay (2008), as well as a general history of New Zealand, Changing Times: New Zealand since 1945 (2013). She co-edited and contributed to City of Enterprise: A history of Auckland business (2006) and Jewish Lives in New Zealand (2011) and wrote a chapter for A History of the New Zealand Foreign Service (2022).
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