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Andrew Johnston

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Andrew Johnston is a New Zealand poet whose books are Birds of Europe (2000), The Open Window (1999), The Sounds (1996) and How to Talk (1993), which won the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1994 Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award. In 1995 he was New Zealand's representative at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. Since 1997 he has lived in France, where he works as an editor for the International Herald Tribune. This site has a selection of his poems, essays, articles and reviews.

Andrew Johnston also edits The Page, an online digest of some of the Web's best poems and essays.