Kay McKenzie Cooke

Author of Feeding the Dogs

5 Works 13 Members 1 Review

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Works by Kay McKenzie Cooke

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Feeding the Dogs (2002) 5 copies

Made for Weather: Poems by Kay Mckenzie Cooke (2007) 5 copies

Born to a Red-Headed Woman (2014) 1 copy

Upturned (2020) 1 copy

Craggan Dhu.: Time Will Tell 1 copy

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childhood memories (1) collection (2) everyday life (1) family (1) first book (1) gore (1) landscape (1) Murihiku (1) New Zealand (4) New Zealand poetry (5) poetry (11) Rakiura (1) Southland (1) Stewart Island (1) women poets (3)

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Canonical name: Cooke, Kay McKenzie
Birthdate: 1953
Gender: female
Nationality: New Zealand
Places of residence: Dunedin, New Zealand
Gore, New Zealand
Otama Valley, New Zealand
Orepuki, New Zealand
Education: Dunedin Teacher’s College
Occupations: Retired Early Childhood and Primary School Teacher
Relationships: Robert (husband)
Organizations: NZSA member.
Awards and honors: Best First Poetry Book, NZ, 2003
Short biography: Born in Tuatapere, Murihiku Southland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Of Māori (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe) Irish, Scottish, English and Scandinavian descent.
Live in Ōtepoti Dunedin, New Zealand.
Trained as a teacher.
Married to Robert.
Mother of four; one daughter and three sons.
Grandmother to 9 mokopuna.
Retired.
Writer of poetry and fiction.

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Made for Weather: Poems by Kay McKenzie Cooke by Kay McKenzie Cooke

This is a lovely collection of poems about life, landscape and growing up in the far south of New Zealand. It's intensely evocative for me, because I lived in or visited many of the places Kay McKenzie Cooke writes about during my own childhood and adolescence, but I think this book would appeal to people who don't share these experiences - especially those who grew up in the country, or who enjoy poetry that is sure-footed,thought-provoking, and full of life.