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Biography: Joseph, Michael Kennedy

Links and sources

Websites

Landfall Archive

Read poems, reviews and articles by M.K. Joseph in the literary magazine Landfall.

Bibliography

M.K. Joseph papers. Alexander Turnbull Library. ATL-Group-00873

Hughes, J.A. ‘A mind habitually oblique: the poetry of M.K. Joseph.’ PhD thesis, Victoria, 2000

Joseph, M.K. ‘Beginnings.’ Islands 27, November 1979: 514–21

Joseph, M.K. Inscription on a paper dart: selected poems, 1945–72. Auckland, 1974

Joseph, M.K. ‘A private movie’. Manuscript memoir, Alexander Turnbull Library, MS-Papers-6678-058

Joseph, M.K. A soldier’s tale. Auckland and London, 1976

McEldowney, D. ‘M.K. Joseph (1914–1981).’ New Zealand Listener, 14 November 1981: 32–3

Robinson, R., and N. Wattie. The Oxford companion to New Zealand literature. Melbourne, 1998: 274–76

How to cite this page

Roger Robinson. 'Joseph, Michael Kennedy', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/232016/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).