Eight Months to Mars - Bill Manhire

He's one of our most famous living poet and a highly-admired New Zealander. His work is reviewed glowingly in 'The Guardian' and 'The New York Times' and he's won four or five New Zealand Book Awards. He was the inaugural Te Mata New Zealand Poet Laureate in 1997 and Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellow in Menton, France, in 2004.