Dunedin poet David Eggelton has been named as a finalist in the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Mr Eggelton, who has won a range of previous awards, is one of four finalists in the poetry category for his collection The Conch Trumpt.
What is your least favourite thing about humanity?
Its constant Manichean battle with inhumanity.
What is one strong childhood memory?
Aged 8, sailing on the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, in a racing dinghy with my father.
What is your message?
Poetry is the message for the infinite scope of the form.
If you were going to an island and could only take three things, what would they be and why?
I'd take the 12th edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a blank notebook and a 4B pencil, seizing my chance to escape the tyranny of computer hardware.
What's something only your family knows about you?
As a kid in Fiji, I obsessively collected The Phantom comics. They all got left behinf, given away to cousins, when we moved to New Zealand.
