Alistair Campbell

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell was a New Zealand poet, playwright and novelist whose writing joined lyric intensity with Māori, Polynesian and European cultural inheritances. Born in the Cook Islands, he became a major voice in New Zealand poetry from the 1950s onward, publishing collections including *Collected Poems*, *Gallipoli and Other Poems* and *Māori Battalion*. His *Collected Poems* won the 1982 New Zealand Book Award for poetry, and he received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in 2005.