Owen Bullock

Beginning with a childhood in and around depressed Cornish mining, Pancakes for Neptune is a detonation of neoliberal waste. Bullock understands that conservatism - whether in public or pr...

These haiku were written over three summers, camping on our piece of land near Waihi in Aotearoa New Zealand, and, for contrast, one winter sojourn there in our newly-built gypsy wagon. The land is bo...

The haiku and senryū in The scuppered lily concern what passes and what we treasure; what amuses us and what confounds us. They record odd, fresh ways of understanding, through the senses and through ...

In this new collection, Owen Bullock asks what constitutes work for someone who must play in order to create? Its a question addressed through formal contrast, aural unpredictabil...

Owen Bullocks haiku sequence Urban Haiku delivers a world with deft subtlety and cutting precision. Each of these poems builds on the last to deliver a s...

In Owen Bullocks second haiku sequence with Recent Work Press, he explores the wisdom garnered from his period as a care worker for the elderly in New Zealand. These haiku display the riches of...

This book evaluates a sample of New Zealand Poetry Anthologies covering the 1940s to the 1980s. It assesses how the intentions, knowledge and tastes of the anthology editors have influenced the repres...