Murray Edmond
Murray Edmond is the author of twelve individual volumes of poetry, editor of three anthologies, and edits the online journal Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics. In 2012 he directed the new opera Len Lye The Opera with music by Eve de Castro-Robinson and libretto by Roger Horocks.
Edmond comments: ‘“Coming Round the Mountain” was first published in 2012 by Holloway Press and part of Three Travels, poems by Murray Edmond, illustrations by Joanna Forsberg.
‘In Japanese, “waka” is the word for a Japanese-style poem; in Māori “waka” is the word for a canoe, and in modern Maori the word for a car. “Waka mo te haerenga” therefore as well as meaning “car/canoe for the journey” is intended to have the ghost sense of “poems for the journey”.’
