Salt river songs / Sam Hunt.

Salt River Songs is Sam Hunt's latest collection of poems, written over the last few years in his house that sits amongst a grove of totara trees on the Arapaoa, one of the five main salt rivers of the Kaipara Harbour. As always, his unflinchingly honest elegiac and moving poems roam around familiar themes of family, friends and lovers, and the challenges of ageing and mortality.

Introduction by Colin Hogg -- Salt river songs -- Tomorrow, or today (1) -- Tomorrow, or today (2) -- Tomorrow, or today (3) -- Tomorrow, or today (4) -- Tomorrow, or today (5) -- Tomorrow, or today (6) -- I live in hope -- Death called by -- Acquinas, at the fireplace -- At the top of the stair -- My father's waistcoats -- Voznesensky -- Just in case -- Exit lines for an ex -- From the end of the wharf -- Immaculate -- Bride among brides -- Six sestets -- Tell me what -- Like, what it was like -- Home thoughts, 2015 -- Piping the fife -- Assisi -- Lines for Lyn -- In a dream my father -- We had a horse -- To have been -- Then again -- Nurse Hayes musings -- The Big Beyond -- If any of them -- After drought -- This time of year -- It was a good night -- Song for a post-modernist -- Past the last stop -- A minute after -- What can a young man do? -- On the move -- I was waiting -- The good luck song -- Tell me something new -- No poem -- Crap, cry, crucify -- Both boots -- And if so -- For the one -- Too many to name -- Running out of time.

Poems, some previously published.