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PETER OLDS was born in Christchurch in 1944 and now lives in Dunedin. His most recent collection, Music Therapy, was published by the Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop (2001). Earlier books include two from Caveman Press — Beethoven’s Guitar (1980) and Lady Moss Revived (1972) — and After Looking for Broadway (1985) from One Eyed Press (Chris Moisa) . He was Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 1978. He has travelled widely around New Zealand, hitch-hiking and taking odd jobs. In his younger years, he spent time with James K Baxter at Jerusalem on the Wanganui River.
“I made notes for ‘Disjointed’ (in notebooks) during the late 80s,” he comments, “while travelling around the North Island, shifting, broke, looking for something . . . Wellington Railway station was a favourite place for sleeping/shelter, and a meeting place for the ‘down & out’. I’d been down & out myself on occasion, and sometimes when travelling around, half-broke, my path led back into it: sometimes just waiting for a train, a bus, something to open, to eat, or company . . . I’ve got notebooks full of this sort of writing. Another poem ‘Journey to the Far South’ published in Glottis 7 also comes from these notebooks.”
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