Former academic, sub-editor, website creator and lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, David Merritt threw in the metaphorical towel in order to pursue his poetry career, where he now writes, publishes and reads his own work. And you can go witness it, in the third heat of the Poetry in Motion Regional Slam at Meow.
David is a poetry veteran, having been writing and publishing his work since the mid ’80s under his own publishing title, Gung-Ho Press, which now operates as Landroverfarm Press. His poetry isn't your usual bound hardcover tome, instead his works are sandwiched between tossed banana boxes, used filing folders, discarded novels and unwanted Reader’s Digests amongst other reusable materials fated for the dump.
His contents reaches from geekdom to politics, memories to those weird shower thoughts with which we are all way too familiar yet way too lame to have ever turned into lyrical art. Have a read of some of his stuff, and if you want to hear some in the flesh, this is an opportunity to hear them told by the man himself.