Beach Rhythms at Mount Maunganui at 5pm The way ranks of clouds saunter across the sky The way sand ripples reflect dark shadows onto gleaming white The way ...

I’m launching my first book ‘Doctor Peter’s Good Earth Magic’ at the second New Zealand Independent Writers Book Fair in Auckland this weekend. It’s at the N...

POETRY: OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE Tony Chad, the editor of the  Valley Micropress, the monthly broadsheet that publishes our local poets, ...

I’m house sitting at long, lonely lovely Himatangi Beach in the North Island of New Zealand. It is even used as a road the sand is so firm and the beach is s...

Hi reader – Yesterday, a magnificent day, I drove back from Wanganui to Wellington in the North Island of New Zealand from checking out another house sit. On...

I travel and house sit, seeing new places and providing a service at the same time, living in beautiful homes for free but keeping them tidy, pull a few weed...

Now that I’ve completed writing 50k words and before editing begins, poems squashed up inside me want to come out. There’s a special tree in the back garden,...