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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 Islander her (over)due place in the spotlight as a significant poet, fiction writer and children's author. Drawing on Dallas's 1991 autobiography, Curved Horizon, her writing notebooks and journals, and letters and interviews, Morrow shows how the girl whose first published work appeared in the children's pages of the Southland Daily News grew up to become the internationally acclaimed author of nine poetry collections, a book of short stories and eight children's books. Ruth Dallas: A writer's life illuminates Dallas's personal and professional relationships, describes major formative episodes in her life - including the traumatic loss of an eye as a teenager - and investigates her inspirations and creative process. Morrow brilliantly captures the inter-regional jousting of the post-war New Zealand literary scene, and Dallas's independent-minded and highly respected presence within it. An early and regular contributer to Landfall, Dallas became both a friend and a trusted literary advisor to the journal's founding editor, Charles Brasch, working for a time as Landfall's 'secretary' - a role perhaps more justly described as co-editor. As well as Brasch, Dallas's circle of friends and colleagues included James K. Baxter, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Roderick Finlayson, Janet Frame and Basil Dowling. In this beautifully written and generously illustrated biography, Morrow gives us the Ruth Dallas that her family and friends knew and loved: a private person with a lively outlook on life; a serious and informed writer with an impish sense of humour; and a writer of rare clarity and insight whose work has enriched the lives of generations of readers in New Zealand and around the world.

About the Author :
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).

Review :
'No other poems written in this country move me & haunt me as Ruth's do.' -Charles Brasch


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781991348128
  • Publisher: Otago University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Otago University Press
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Width: 170 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1991348126
  • Publisher Date: 23 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A writer's life


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