David Merritt is one of the few innovative, upcycling, copyleft, non-academic, self financing, community engaged, rural poetry renegades New Zealand has on offer at the moment. His bespoke books are hand crafted from the detritus of the waste stream of publishing.

The inventor of the Phantom National Poetry Day #poetrybrick and the #poetryrack, his latest collection, You Sleep Uphill (Landroverfarm Press / Compound Press), is finally out and a spoken-word/viola collaboration with Justine Francis called Blowhole (Forked Tongue Records) is also out about now.