(back from left) CK Stead, Jenny Bornholdt, Bill Manhire, Ian Wedde, Michele Leggott, Brian Turner, Vincent O'Sullivan, (front from left) Rob Tuwhare (representing his late father Hone Tuwhare), Elizabeth Smither and Cilla McQueen. Photo: Gregor Richardson.
Twenty years ago, John Buck of Te Mata Estate Winery created the Te Mata Estate Laureate Award, but in 2007 the Government took over funding of a poet laureate and vested responsibility for the award with the National Library.
