Peter Olds
Peter Olds lives in Dunedin. His poems have appeared in Big Smoke, Landfall, Otago Daily Times and The Best of Best New Zealand Poems. In 1978 he was Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University. He was awarded the Janet Frame Award for Poetry in 2005. His selected poems, you fit the description, with an introduction by Ian Wedde, was published by Cold Hub Press in 2014.
Olds comments: ‘“The Shell” is about a child visiting his grandmother who lives by the sea, set in the 1950s.
‘The ship is the overnight ferry that once plied between Lyttelton and Wellington and was the usual way New Zealanders travelled between the North and South Islands in those days.
‘The shell is a conch shell.’
