David Howard is the author of Rāwaho: the Completed Poems (Cold Hub Press, 2022) and the editor of A Place To Go On From: the Collected Poems of Iain Lonie (Otago University Press, 2015). He held the Robert Burns Fellowship at Otago University (2013), the Otago Wallace Residency (2014), a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Prague (2016), the Ursula Bethell Residency at Canterbury University (2016), The Writers’ House Residency, Pazin Croatia (2017), the Grimshaw Sargeson Residency (2018), a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Ulyanovsk (2019), and a Creative NZ Resilience Grant (2020). Reviewing Rāwaho: the Completed Poems for the Academy of NZ Literature, Ian Wedde observed that 'the poems themselves...far from being dry or pedantic are fine tuned, imaginatively inventive, often elegantly lyrical, and often - opening a random page - witty.' 

On 18 April 2024, at New Zealand House London, David presented Mate: Kei te mōhio tāua, he reo kei tōku arero; his presentation about Tarara was followed by a speech from the Croatian Minister Plenipotentiary and Chargé d'affaires a.i Davor Ljubanović.

David is currently collaborating with the composer Alissa Long on a piece set in Gaza.

 

 

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