Peter Olds (New Zealand, 1944) left school at sixteen and after meeting James K. Baxter in Dunedin in the 1960s began writing poetry. He was a Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 1978. In 2005 he was the inaugural recipient of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry. Since Lady Moss Revived in 1972 he has published numerous collections of poetry including the acclaimed, comprehensive 2014 selected poems YOU FIT THE DESCRIPTION. Described by David Eggleton as ‘the laureate of the marginalised’, his most recent collection is Sheep Truck (Cold Hub Press, 2022).