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- Occupation: Writer and researcher
- Location: Auckland/Ohura : New Zealand
About Me
I was awarded a PhD by the University of Auckland last year after submitting a thesis on EP Thompson, the English historian, literary scholar, political activist, poet, and sometime cricketer. I've worked as a museum librarian, editor, and proofreader. I've published scholarly texts, literary criticism, poems, and poltical writing in a range of journals. In 2007 Titus Books published a collection of my poetry and prose called To the Moon, in Seven Easy Steps. Currently I'm revising my PhD thesis for publication and working on a book about the Kiwi poet Kendrick Smithyman. I live in Auckland but spend a lot of my time in the backblocks of North Island, especially south of the Puniu River in Te Rohe Potae.
Which is easier to make a model airplane out of and why: a banana peel or a wet sock?
[His mind went blank]
Interests
- Writing and the rest of the arts
- politics and the history of the left
- New Zealand local and regional history
- cricket
- beer
- and too many other things to list here.
Favorite Movies
- Runaway (John O'Shea)
- Lone Star (John Sayles)
- Journey Through H (Peter Greenaway)
- Summer of Sam (Spike Lee)
- Zardoz (John Borman)
- The Satyricon (Fellini)
- Comrades (Bill Douglas)
- Aguirre: the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
- The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy)
- Equus (Michael Schaffer).
Favorite Music
Favorite Books
- Kendrick Smithyman
- Selected Poems; Judith Binney
- Redemption Songs: A Life of Te Kooti Te Arikirangi Te Turuki; Geoff Park
- Nga Uruora: The Groves of Life; Heraclitus
- On Nature; BS Johnson
- The Unfortunates; Allen Curnow
- Trees Effigies and Moving Objects; Tomas Transtromer
- Selected Poems; Don De Lillo
- Libra; Richard Polt
- The Emergency of Being.
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| The Hamilton Papers | |
|---|---|
| Reading the Maps | Skyler muzzlehatch |
