Paul Millar

Dr Paul Millar teaches English in the School of Humanities at the University of Canterbury. Millar was convening judge in the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards and received a Copyright Licensing Limited Writers' Award in 2003 to complete his biography of Bill Pearson, No Fretful Sleeper (AUP, 2010). He has published five books and a number of articles on the poetry of James K Baxter, including Spark to a Waiting Fuse (2001) and Baxter's New Selected Poems (2002). He cowrote the Baxter...See more

Dr Paul Millar teaches English in the School of Humanities at the University of Canterbury. Millar was convening judge in the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards and received a Copyright Licensing Limited Writers' Award in 2003 to complete his biography of Bill Pearson, No Fretful Sleeper (AUP, 2010). He has published five books and a number of articles on the poetry of James K Baxter, including Spark to a Waiting Fuse (2001) and Baxter's New Selected Poems (2002). He cowrote the Baxter documentary The Road to Jerusalem, has been the Baxter consultant on two television documentaries and, with Geoffrey Miles, is currently completing a book on Baxter and myth. See less