Tim Upperton worked for Canterbury Public Library before moving to Whangarei and more recently Palmerston North where he has forsaken librarianship for life as a poet and creative writing tutor. I posted on the library blog about the forthcoming launch of his collection of poetry on National Poetry Day and received this nice comment. “Thanks for the mention here. If everyone who reads this can find it in his or her heart to purchase just 17 copies each, I can contentedly move to a gated community at Pauanui, where all the wealthy retired poets go.
I enjoyed my time at Chch City Libraries very much – quite simply the best library service I ever worked in.”
Tim
Bookman Beattie has the lowdown on Tim’s work http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/tim-uppertons-first-book-of-poems-house.html which is called A House on Fire
You can read this interview with Tim at http://timjonesbooks.blogspot.com/2009/08/interview-with-tim-upperton.html