Gregory Kan
Gregory Kan is a writer and coder based in Wellington. His poetry has been featured in literary journals such as the Atlanta Review, Cordite, Jacket, Landfall, The Listener, SPORT and Best New Zealand Poems. His poetry and essay works have also featured for contemporary art institutions such as the Auckland Art Gallery, Artspace, the Adam Art Gallery, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Enjoy Gallery, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, and the Physics Room. Auckland University Press published his first book, This Paper Boat, in 2016. This Paper Boat was shortlisted for the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Prize in 2013 and for the New Zealand Book Awards for Best Poetry in 2017. He was a Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellow in 2017. His second poetry collection, Under Glass, was published by Auckland University Press in March, 2019, and has been long-listed for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2020.
Everything By: Gregory Kan
Gregory Kan writes about what drove his book-length poem, Under Glass. Part of the How to Read My Poem series, inspired by Verb Festival.
In 2007, poet Greg Kan was sent from the country he'd grown up in to a country he scarcely remembered for two years of military service. Here, he recounts the experience for the first time.
