Nicholas Messenger

Nicholas Messenger had his first poems published in New Zealand as a schoolboy. He won the Glover Poetry award in the 1970’s. In recent years he has had work published in a good number of online magazines.

He was born in 1945, completed a degree at Auckland University, travelled extensively, and lived at various times in France, England and Japan. He has worked at many jobs, including seaman, security guard and demolition worker, and for a long time made his living as a teacher, of science, art, and languages, in High Schools in New Zealand, and of English in Japan. Now he is running a home-stay business in Hokitika. He has been married twice and has two grown-up children.

Poetry
Buzzing  
On The Page 
Piano Man 
Poet to his Hero 
Ritsurin 
Seiko’s Poem 
Taken by Flash  
Tracks in the Snow    

Selected as Poet of the Week
on January 7, 2007

 
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