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Biography: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro

Links and sources

Websites

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura

Read Allen Curnow's profile on Read NZ, originally published in the Oxford companion to New Zealand literature.

Early Days Yet: NZ On Screen

Watch Shirley Horrocks' 2001 documentary about Curnow on the NZ On Screen site.

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Bibliography

Allen Curnow. Journal of New Zealand Literature 15 (1997), special issue.

Curnow, A. Collected poems. Eds. T. Sturm, E. Caffin, Auckland, 2017

Curnow, A. Whim Wham's New Zealand: the best of Whim Wham, 1937–1988. Ed. T. Sturm, Auckland, 2005

Roddick, A. Allen Curnow. Wellington, 1980.

Simpson, P. Bloomsbury South: the arts in Christchurch, 19331953. Auckland, 2016

Stead, C. K. Kin of place: essays on 20 New Zealand writers. Auckland, 2002.

Sturm, T. Allen Curnow: simply by sailing in a new direction: a biography. Ed. L. Cassells, Auckland, 2017

Sturm, T., ed. The Oxford history of New Zealand literature in English. 2nd ed. Auckland, 1998.

How to cite this page

Terry Sturm. 'Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/134419/sources (accessed 3 June 2026).