'From Island to Island': Extracts from an Unpublished Autobiography

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell

doi:10.26686/jnzs.v9i1.330

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Alistair Te Ariki Campbell

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https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.v9i1.330

Abstract

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell was a leading figure in the post-war Literary Society of Victoria University College which after several 'Broadsheets', published a new literary journal Hilltop in 1949. In these extracts from his unpublished autobiography we approach some of the sources of his poems, especially that of'The Return ', his most celebrated single work, first published in Hilltop 2 under the title 'Landscape with Figures'. He also gives us a student's view of life at Victoria, but before coming to Wellington he had 'reluctantly and resentfully' enrolled as a student at Otago University for the 1944 academic year...

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Author Biography

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell was born in Rarotonga on 25 June 1925, the son of John Archibald Campbell, a third-generation New Zealander from Dunedin who became secretary of the Cook Islands Trading Company, and Teu (nee Bosini), a Polynesian family of chiefly origins. Both his parents died early and the orphaned four children spent several years of their childhood in a Dunedin orphanage. He attended Otago Boys High School where he succeeded academically and in sports. Besides several volumes of poems he has written four novels. His Pocket Collected Poems of 1996 is his most recent attempt at a complete survey of his poetic oeuvre, and has an important introduction by Roger Robinson.