Peter Olds

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Peter Olds is a living legend of New Zealand verse as the author of the revolutionary 1972 collection, V8 Poems, and later poems such as the classic 'Beethoven’s guitar', described by Peter Simpson as “an immensely vital poem about life in a psychiatric hospital”. His latest book is Sheep Truck: and other poems (Cold Hub Press, 2022). Peter was born in Christchurch in 1944.