Author of the article

David Howard is the author of ‘Rāwaho: the Completed Poems’ (Cold Hub Press, 2022) and the editor of ‘A Place To Go On From: the Collected Poems of Iain Lonie’ (Otago University Press, 2015); he held UNESCO City of Literature Residencies in Prague (2016) and in Ulyanovsk (2019). Learn more about David at Calling Home from Croatia.

Photographer Ivan Rogers was born in Ōtautahi/Christchurch in 1958; he attended the experimental state high school Four Avenues, where he met David in 1975; he has worked as a union organiser and conservation ranger, but is now semi-retired in the rural South Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand.