Purakanui poet David Howard is joint winner of the Poetry section in the University of South Pacific Press Competition. Other winners include Albert Wendt (Overall) and Lani Wendt Young (Fiction).
The long opening poem 'There You Go' from David Howard's collection 'How To Occupy Our Selves' (Headworx, 2003) is a to be set as a cantata for female voice and piano by the Czech composer Marta…