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Author photo: Ebony Lamb
Bill Nelson's first book of poetry was Memorandum of Understanding (2016). His second book, Root Leaf Flower Fruit (2023) was shortlisted in the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. His poems have appeared in Best New Zealand Poems, Sport, Landfall, Hue & Cry, Shenandoah, The Spinoff, Minarets and The 4th Floor, as well as in dance performances and art galleries and on posters. In 2009 he won the Biggs Family Prize in Poetry from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and he is a founding editor of Up Country: A Journal for the NZ Outdoors. He lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara with his partner and two children, and his dog, Callimachus Bruce.
