Author(s): Nick Ascroft

New Zealand Poetry

Nonsense is a remarkable collection of morally engaged and liguistically exuberant poems, unlike anything else in contemporary New Zealand poetry. Nick Ascroft is 2003 Burns Fellow at the University of Otago. He is a renowned performance poet and was co-founder of the literary magazin Glottis. His first book, From the author of, was published to acclaim in 2000.