Eleanor Rimoldi

As a social anthropologist I have published widely. Here I will just mention recent recent awards since turning to a more creative, literary approach as a member of the NZSA. 

2015 'Highly Commended' Graeme Lay Short Story Competition

2016 Third Equal Song and Poetry Thing Quick-Competition, Waiheke Island as part of the National Poetry Day Competitions

2018 Longlisted in the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

2019 Granted a NZSA completed manuscript assessment award.  After several revisions I am seeking a publisher for this novella based on stories from fieldwork on Bourgainville from 1974-2007.

Genre:

  • Adult Fiction
  • Adult Non-Fiction
  • Poetry

Skills:

  • Academic Writing
  • Novelist
  • Poetry Readings
  • Print Media Writing (magazines/newspapers)

Branch:

Auckland

Location:

Waiheke Island

Publications:

Hahalis and the Labour of Love: A social movement on Buka Island

An ethnographic study of a resistance movement on Bougainville based on fieldwork by the authors, anthropologists Max and Eleanor Rimoldi. Published in 1992 by Berg in the Explorations in Anthropology , University College London Series.

The Earth's Deep Breathing

This is a collection of garden poems edited by Harvey Mcqueen published 2007 by Godwit, Random House NZ which includes my poem "Jacaranda Blue" (Eleanor Horrocks, now Rimoldi).

American Retrospective

AMERICAN RETROSPECTIVE Poems 1961-2016 Eleanor Rimoldi ISBN 978-0-473-42208-0 56 pages Perfect bound, 148mm x 210mm Category: Poetry RRP $25.00 Release date: 1 March 2018 More information & ordering: hicksvillepress.com/american-retrospective At the age of 22, Eleanor Rimoldi left New York to begin a long journey to the other side of the world. Sitting on the train to San Francisco, she began the first poem in this collection: a haunting farewell to the country of her birth. Over the next 57 years, in America and New Zealand, through migration, marriage and separation, motherhood and career, Rimoldi has continued to write. With a distinctive, precise and powerful voice, her poems burrow deep into love and grief and the nature of home. This first comprehensive selection of Eleanor Rimoldi’s poetry collects both published and previously unseen poems. Eleanor Rimoldi was born and raised in Buffalo, New York and emigrated to New Zealand in 1961. She has taught anthropology at universities in Auckland, Tonga and Bougainville. Her poems have been published in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies (previously under the names Eleanor Horrocks and Eleanor Clarke). She currently lives on Waiheke Island in Auckland.

Words from Waiheke

A collection of poetry and a short story from the Waiheke Writers group, Catherine Mitchell Art Centre. 62 pages. $10

I have three new poems in the collection:

Kereru

Aerial and Aphasia on the High Wire

Eavesdropping

ISBN 978-0-473-54736-3. Published November 2020.

Available from the Catherine Mitchell Centre Writers Group 32 Putiki Road, Ostend, Waiheke Island, Auckland 1081