The Wilder Years

Overview

David Eggleton, Poet Laureate of Aotearoa 2019–21, has published nine poetry collections, and now, finally, comes a ‘Best Of ’.The Wilder Years: Selected Poems is a hardback compendium of the poet’s own selection from 35 years of published work, together with a handful of new poems.Cover art by Nigel Brown.

Author Biography

DAVID EGGLETON received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in poetry in 2016, the year The Conch Trumpet won the Poetry Award at the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The following year he was the recipient of the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency. For eight years (2009–17) David was editor of Landfall, New Zealand’s pre-eminent journal of arts and letters.