Ivy Gibbs Biography | Poet

Ivy Olive Gibbs (1886-1966) was a trans-Tasman poet and children’s writer based pre-dominantly in New Zealand. Her verse in The Bulletin, Australia, made her well known between 1920 and 1930 and she was widely published in New Zealand between the late 1920s and 1941. Children’s verses by Gibbs appeared in The Christian Science Monitor in Boston, North America, 1944-49.