On this website is most of the poetry I've published, concentrated in three books: A Kitset of 26 Poems, Pathways into the Brain, and Falling Off Chairs.
My first book of poetry to be published: by the Amphedesma Press in London, in 1972. This has been out of print for years. Here it is again, better than new. (The revised version will be published by Original Books, in New Zealand... some day... maybe.)
July 2004
My best-selling book of poetry, first published in 1973. Most of the poems from this book are now on this site - including my special favourite, the apocalyptic Great Wellington Gas Blowback.
Extracts from my third book of poems. These are meant to be read aloud, chanted, even hummed. “I liked a few of those poems,” some readers have said, perhaps disappointed that they didn’t like all of them. My hope is that you might find a single poem that speaks to you so directly that you feel impelled to read it over and over again, absorbing it almost through your skin, so that it becomes part of you, and you find you know it by heart, without ever having consciously learned it.
Poems that aren't in books - early, late, and apocalyptic.
Big Smoke
Alsop Review
2001: A selection of my poetry, including some unavailable elsewhere, has been published in the Alsop Review,
a well-respected U.S. online magazine.