Pat White (1944-) is a poet, essayist, memoirist and artist whose work often directly reflects his interest in rural life and the natural environment and draws on his experience living in different places around New Zealand, from the bottom of the South Island to the far north. His first collection of poetry, Signposts, was published in 1977; his most recent was Watching for the Wingbeat, new and selected poems (Cold Hub Press 2018.) His biography of poet Peter Hooper, Notes from the Margins: the West Coast's Peter Hooper appeared in 2017.