About the Book
Featured Artists Peter Peryer, Saskia Leek, Ngataiharuru Taepa Writers Nick Ascroft, Shelley Arlidge, Mark Young, C K Stead, Jodie Dalgleish, Jessie Puru, Liz Breslin, Claire Orchard, Rachael Taylor, Brian Turner, John Adams, Judy OKane, Vaughan Rapatahana, L E Scott, Antony Millen, Carin Smeaton, Erik Kennedy, Leilani Tamu, Allison Li, Rata Gordon, Victoria Broome, Siobhan Harvey, Ruth Arnison, Sam Keenan, Jillian Sullivan, Johanna Emeney, Heather McQuillan, Doc Drumheller, Wes Lee, Koenraad Kuiper, Caoimhe McKeogh, Madeline Reid, Stephen Coates, Helen Vivienne Fletcher, Martha Morseth, Joanna Preston, Owen Marshall, Christina Stachurski, Tom Weston, Elizabeth Smither, Piet Nieuwland, Bob Orr, Janet Charman, Will Leadbeater, Vivienne Plumb, Immi Paterson-Harkness, Elizabeth Welsh, Robert McLean, Mary Macpherson, Bill Direen, Ron Riddell, Victor Rodger Reviews: Andrew Dean on The Back of His Head by Patrick Evans, Kirstine Moffat on The Chimes by Anna Smaill, Thom Conroy on Trifecta by Ian Wedde, Jack Ross on R.H.I. by Tim Corballis, David Herkt on The Fixer by John Daniell, Elizabeth Heritage on Credit in the Straight World by Brannavan Gnanalingam Max Oettli on John Fields Signature Series 1975
About the Author :
David Eggleton is a performance poet and writer. Part Polynesian, he grew up between Fiji and New Zealand. Eggletons many awards include six times Book Reviewer of the Year in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, PEN Best First Book of Poetry, the Robert Burns Fellowship and, uniquely among New Zealand poets, he was London Time Outs Street Entertainer of the Year in 1985. He also writes non-fiction, and has produced several documentaries, CDs and short films. In 2016 his collection 'The Conch Trumpet' won the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry and he received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in poetry.
Review :
'... the most important and long-lasting journal in New Zealand's literature' - Oxford History of New Zealand Literature
