A Riderless Horse: 2022

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The third poetry collection from Palmerston North poet Tim Upperton.

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I greatly admire Uppertons virtuosity as a poet (so much variety of tone, form and feeling) and how much of the world he manages to get into his poems. This arresting, sometimes zany, sometimes mordant collection will further add to his literary standing. Harry Ricketts

Author Bio

Tim Upperton lives in Palmerston North. He has published two previous poetry collections, A House on Fire (Steele Roberts, 2009) and The Night We Ate the Baby (HauNui Press, 2014), which was a finalist in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. He won the Bronwyn Tate Memorial International Poetry Competition in 2011 and the Caselberg International Poetry Competition in 2012, 2013 and 2020. His poems have been widely published in magazines including Agni, Poetry, Shenandoah, Sport, takah and Landfall, and are anthologised in The Best of Best New Zealand Poems (Victoria University Press, 2011), Villanelles (Everymans Library, 2012), Essential New Zealand Poems (Random House, 2014), Obsession: Sestinas in the Twenty-First Century (Dartmouth College Press, 2014), Bonsai: Best Small Stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (Canterbury University Press, 2018) and More Favourable Waters (The Cuba Press, 2021). He is a landscape gardener, creative writing teacher and freelance writer.