Pieces
Shops
Lighthouse
Lady C in Cuba
Nicholas Messenger had his first poems published in
New Zealand as a schoolboy. He won the Glover Poetry
award in New Zealand in the 1970’s. In 2006 he has
had poems published in About The Arts, Blackmail,
Boloji, Coffee Press Journal, High Altitude Poetry,
Identity Theory, Jacket, Monkey Kettle, Off Course,
Pulsar, Taj Mahal Review, Web Poetry Corner and
WOW. He has had a few small one-man shows of his
paintings.
He was born in 1945, and after completing a degree
at Auckland University, travelled extensively in South
America, and lived in Europe for several years. For a
long time he made his living as a teacher, of science,
art, and languages, in High Schools in New Zealand,
where he was a long-standing member of mountain
Search and Rescue organisation. Now, after nine years
in Japan teaching English, he is running a small home-
stay business in Hokitika, New Zealand, with his
Japanese wife. He has two grown-up children from a
previous marriage.