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RICHARD REEVE was born in Central Otago and now lives in Dunedin. His first collection, Dialectic of Mud, was published by Auckland Unviersity Press in 2001. With Nick Ascroft, he edits the literary magazine Glottis.
“I spent the first years of my life living not too far from Ranfurly, a small sheep-farming town, bordered by dry mountains, on the northern end of Central Otago’s Maniototo plain. As part of a major rain shadow that lies east of the Southern Alps, the brown, sometimes hallucinatory tussock land which surrounds it is exposed to seasonal extremes of heat and cold. To this end, the landscape represented in the poem is both literal and figurative. If the poem hinges on a failed supplication to the elements for mercy, it also voices praise for a world which is bigger than we are.”
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