Ian Wedde (b. 1946) is a poet, fiction writer, critic, art critic and arts administrator. His major publications include Made Over (1974), Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos (1975), Spells for Coming Out (1977), Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems (1987), Tendering (1988), the novel Symmes Hole(1986), the Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (ed., with Harvey McQueen, 1985), How to be Nowhere (1995) an d Fomison:what shall we tell them? (1994). He is a curator at Te Papa Tongarewa The Museum of New Zealand.

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