Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop
     Home   Publishing This Year   Books in Print    Free Books   News   Links   Buy   Associates

Music Therapy
 by Peter Olds

 (recpient of the Janet Frame Literary Award)

After a silence of sixteen years Olds published Music Therapy in 2001. Writing in the NZ Listener Peter Simpson describes the collection as 'marked by enervation and fragility’.

Hamesh Wyatt in the Otago Daily Times writes about the collection, ‘ In verse, the reader is given a stormy magnification of one man’s inner life. Olds lets us enter into his life in these haunting, twisted pieces’. He goes on to write, ‘ Despite the serious, dark themes, it is refreshing to find poetry that does not simply float around the room without ever touching the ground.’

In the Oxford Companion of New Zealand Literature, Nelson Wattie writes that Olds was ‘considered a central figure to many younger poets in the 1970s because of his ability to incorporate rebellious detail of contemporary experience with music, drugs and the concerns and language of the street.’

In addition to writing Olds has been the subject of a number of poems including James K. Baxter’s ‘Letter to Peter Olds’ (1972).

Olds' poem ‘Disjointed on Wellington Railway Station’ was selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2001.

Peter Olds lives in Dunedin.

 JANET FRAME LITERARY AWARDS 2005
On Sunday 28 August, veteran poet Peter Olds and novelist Kelly Ana Morey were named as inaugural recipients of the Janet Frame Literary Awards, worth $10,000 each. 

Peter Olds is somewhat of a legend as the V8 poet of the 70s and 80s. After some years of silence, Olds has recently returned to performing and publishing his poetry. Reviewing It Was a Tuesday Morning: Selected Poems 1972 – 2001, David Eggleton described Peter Olds as “an old master already; one who has kept the faith”.

TITLE               Music Therapy
AUTHOR         Peter Olds
PUBLISHED    2001
CATEGORY    Poetry
FORMAT         Paperback
EXTENT           A5, 65 pages
ISBN                1-86942-023-3
PRICE              NZ  $15

  Home   Publications 2006   Books in Print   Back Issues  News   Links   Buy   Associates