21 Aug 2022

Tim Upperton's new poetry collection

From Standing Room Only, 2:37 pm on 21 August 2022
Tim Upperton

Tim Upperton Photo: supplied

Tim Upperton

Photo: supplied

An acerbic wit and and astute observations dominate the poems in A Riderless Horse, the latest collection by Palmerston North wordsmith, Tim Upperton.

Tim's two previous poetry collections were A House on Fire and The Night We Ate the Baby.   

He's a three-time winner of the Caselberg International Poetry Competition, and he's both a creative writing teacher and landscape gardener.

Most of the poems in A Riderless Horse have had an earlier life, having been seen in a range of publications.  

But Tim tells Lynn Freeman he's reworked most of them for this collection.

A Riderless Horse by Tim Upperton is published by Auckland University Press.