A Long Girl Ago

Author(s): Johanna Aitchison

NZ Poetry

A Long Girl Ago draws on ten years experience and writing. At its heart are three years Aitchison spent living in a remote fishing village in Hokkaido, Japan, where she taught English in junior high and primary schools and was extensively involved in karaoke and snowboarding.


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Shortlisted for Montana New Zealand Book Awards: Poetry Category 2008.

Johanna Aitchison was born in the Bay of Islands in 1972. She graduated in Law from the University of Otago (1995) and has worked as a solicitor, barista and legal editor. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University (1997) and is presently a primary school teacher in Waiouru. Her poems have appeared in Sport, Landfall, Poetry New Zealand, JAAM, Turbine and Polestar.

General Fields

  • : 9780864735690
  • : test
  • : Something
  • : 01 October 2007
  • : 01 October 2007
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Johanna Aitchison
  • : Paperback
  • : 1st Edition
  • : English
  • : 821.2
  • : 72
  • : Poetry texts & anthologies