Bob OrrBob Orr

Bob Orr is the author of One Hundred Poems and a Year, published by Steele Roberts in December 2018. It is his ninth collection of poetry. He first came to attention as a featured poet in the seminal anthology The Young New Zealand Poets (1971). He has won the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry, and was awarded the Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato in 2017. Bob was born in Hoe-O-Tainui in 1949.

The Friday Poem: ‘Hawaiki’ by Bob Orr

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New poetry by Thames writer Bob Orr.   Hawaiki   My first university   the freezing works at Horotiu –   my first professor a tohunga   in white overalls and gumboots   who worked on the boning floor.   One evening drinking beer   as the setting sun was turning the Waikato River red … Read more