Owen Bullock

Owen Bullock holds a PhD in Creative Writing. His research interests include semiotics and poetry (particularly the use of line and space); prose poetry; collaborative poetry and haikai literature. He has a website for his new research into poetry and process, at: https://poetry-in-process.com/. His scholarly writing has appeared in Antipodes, Axon, Journal of New Zealand Literature, Ka Mate Ka Ora, New Writing, Qualitative Inquiry and TEXT, and he has a book chapter in British prose poetry: The poems without lines (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Owen has published three collections of poetry, 'Work & Play', 'semi' and 'sometimes the sky isn’t big enough'; four books of haiku, 'River's Edge', 'Urban Haiku', 'breakfast with epiphanies', and 'wild camomile '; the novella, 'A Cornish Story', and several chapbooks of poetry and haiku. He is a former editor of Poetry New Zealand, Kokako, Spin and Bravado and has edited a number of anthologies. He won the Canberra Critics’ Circle Award for Poetry 2015, and holds a Donald Horne Creative and Cultural Fellowship for 2018.