Tim Upperton

Tim Upperton is writing his PhD thesis on the poetry of Frederick Seidel. He won first prizes in the Bronwyn Tate Memorial International Poetry Competition 2011 and the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition 2012. His poems have been selected for Best New Zealand Poems2008, 2009, and 2011, and his first collection, A House On Fire (Steele Roberts), appeared in 2009. He has published widely in literary journals, mainstream magazines in New Zealand and the U.S., and recently in the anthologies Best of the Best New Zealand Poems (VUP) and Villanelles (Everyman).