John Allison (7 October 1950 – 14 March 2024) was a New Zealand poet, musician, and teacher in Rudolf Steiner (Waldorf) education.
Allison was born in Blenheim, New Zealand, and taught at the Christchurch Waldorf Steiner School for twenty-four years. He lectured and wrote on themes related to poetic imagination and observation, anthroposophy, and Waldorf education, although in later life he was no longer formally associated with anthroposophy.
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Publications Prose Walking Out of Another World, Immortal Books, Murwillumbah, 2010 A Teacher's Book: Digging Deeper, Immortal Books, Murwillumbah, 2008 A Way of Seeing: Perception, Imagination, and Poetry, Lindisfarne Books, Great Barrington, 2003 Living in Light Loving the Dark, Initiative Circle of the Waldorf Pedagogical Section in New Zealand, 2003 Where Children Are: Beginning to Understand Waldorf Education, Initiative Circle of the Waldorf Pedagogical Section in New Zealand, 2001
Poetry I Came This Way Some Time Before: Selected Poems, Sudden Valley Press, Governors Bay, 2025 A Long Road Trip Home, Cold Hub Press, Lyttelton, 2023 Near Distance, Cold Hub Press, Lyttelton, 2020 A Place to Return To, Cold Hub Press, Lyttelton, 2019 Balance, Five Islands Press, Melbourne, 2006 Stone Moon Dark Water, Sudden Valley Press, Christchurch, 1999 Both Roads Taken, Sudden Valley Press, Christchurch, 1997 Dividing the Light, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1997