Bluff poet Cilla McQueen has been named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in today’s Honour’s list. Cilla has been New Zealand’s poet laureate, she has written 15 collections of poetry, her latest is Poeta. Three of those collections have won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. She has been the University of Otago’s Burns Fellow, a Fulbright Visiting Writers’ Fellows, and in 1991 was awarded the Scholarship in Letters.
Cilla McQueen Photo: Adrienne Martyn
