Robert has won the 2022 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for his contribution to New Zealand poetry, the Montana New Zealand Book Award for co-editing Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English, the Māori Literature Award for co-editing Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English, and the New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor, Creative Writing, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University

Education

  • 2015 
    PhD in English, University of Auckland

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