Janet Newman

Janet Newman is a poet, farmer and former journalist based in the Horowhenua District of New Zealand. She has published two poetry books; Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology and Unseasoned Campaigner, both published by Otago University Press. She won the 2015 New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition and the 2017 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems. She has written a doctoral thesis on the Traditions of Ecopoetry in Aotearoa/New Zealand at Massey University. Her book, Unseasoned Campaigner, won the 2022 New Zealand Society of Authors Heritage Book Award for Poetry. She was also a runner-up in the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Awards. Her essays have won the Journal of New Zealand Literature Prize for New Zealand Literary Studies in 2016 and 2014.

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