Ben Brown (NgÄti PÄoa, NgÄti MÄhuta) writes children’s books, non-fiction and short stories for children and adults.
Since 1992, he has been a publisher and writer, collaborating with his wife, illustrator Helen Taylor, on numerous publications. Their Nga Raukura Rima Tekau ma rima, the Te Reo edition of Fifty-Five Feathers, was short-listed in the 2005 LIANZA Book Awards. The pair also won Best Picture Book at the 2006 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards.
He displays an “occasional propensity†towards performance poetry and was selected for the Maori Writer’s Residency at the Michael King Writers Centre in 2011 to work on a collection of poetry and short poetic-prose pieces that explore the concept of mana.
His work has also appeared on posters around the world, he lives in Lyttelton.
Ben Brown appears in Poetry for Lunch
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