Harry Ricketts
Harry Ricketts teaches English Literature and creative nonfiction at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and co-edits the quarterly review journal New Zealand Books. He has written or edited twenty-five books, including a biography of Rudyard Kipling, nine collections of poems, extended personal essays and various anthologies. In 2010, he published three books: the anthology The Awa Book of New Zealand Sports Writing, 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry (with Paula Green), and Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War, a group-biography of a dozen World War I poets. His most recent collection of poems, Just Then, was published in 2012.
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Te Mata Peak
(for Tommy and Maddy) Here’s the track. Below left, the Tukituki ribbons away; to the right, scalloped slopes, dotted with dandelion, thistle, pine. The eye bounces hillock to hillock, greedy for distance, like the imperial imagination some would have it. …