About the Author

Bob Orr has published six previous collections of poems, three of those with Auckland University Press. Born in Hamilton in 1949 and raised in the rural Waikato, Orr moved to Auckland and became prominent among the poets associated with Freed magazine in the early 1970s. He now divides his time between the Coromandel and Auckland, where he works as a boatman on the Waitemata Harbour.