19 Aug 2023

Richard von Sturmer: a year walking and dreaming in the Waikato

From Saturday Morning, 10:35 am on 19 August 2023
Walking with Rocks Dreaming with Rivers, by Richard von Sturmer

Walking with Rocks Dreaming with Rivers, by Richard von Sturmer Photo: Oliver Stewart

A travel guide like no other, combining poetry, photos and history, Walking with Rocks - Dreaming with Rivers - My Year in the Waikato is the result of Richard von Sturmer's year as writer in residence at the University of Waikato in 2020.

An artist, poet, playwright, film maker and musician, Richard wrote one of New Zealand's best known alternative anthems There is No Depression in New Zealand, performed by Blam Blam Blam.