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Tony Chad                 

Tony Chad lives in Whiteman's Valley, Upper Hutt, where he endeavours to find the best balance of paid employment, the arts and a subsistence lifestyle. He is editor of monthly poetry magazine Valley Micropress, helps organise poetry and other arts events and hosts a "what's on" Access Radio slot. His CD of original songs Sun Over Kapiti has sold over 800 copies, but he is probably best known for performances with his Irish band Finn McCool. Tony's haiku have appeared in various anthologies and journals and one is inscribed on a boulder on the Katikati Haiku Pathway. His work appeared in a taste of nashi, the 2008 New Zealand haiku anthology. Contact Tony.

  

on the parched earth
hawk's shadow:
war-planes over Iraq
  
  

putting on weight
the one-walk-a-week dog
from Paekakariki
  

 
on the deck
abandoned dog biscuits -
and a marble
  

 
your tears at the airport
now it's raining
in LA
  

 
divorced poets
share
the same page
  

 
your "freedom" -
costing us
the Earth
  

 
minute's silence:
through the loudspeakers
children's voices
  

 
butterfly's first flight :
sparrow's breakfast

 
  
our last day
together
first daffodil
  

 
after the storm
a fallen pine -
first flower on the kowhai

 
Publication notes:

on the parched earth: Tapping the Tank (NZPS anthology) 1999.
putting on weight: ibid.
on the deck: Valley Micropress 3-7, 1999.
your tears at the airport: A Savage Gathering (NZPS anthology) 2000.
divorced poets: unpublished.
your "freedom" - : unpublished.
minute's silence: Kokako 5, 2006 (amended).
butterfly's first flight: WinterSpin 2001.
our last day: ibid.


                                                                 

                                                                 Haiku by Tony Chad, Katikati Haiku Pathway (Sandra Simpson photo).

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