Alan Ireland: Chinese gold miners' huts, Arrowtown, 2006

Biography

I was born in Birmingham, England, in 1940, and educated at Wennington School in Wetherby, Yorkshire. I left England in early 1960 and traveled overland to India, where I worked for a while with Service Civil International in Rajasthan. After leaving India, I traveled through Malaya (as it was then), Singapore and Australia to Japan. I spent 10 years in Tokyo, where I worked at The Japan Times, before coming to New Zealand in 1972. I retired from the Manawatu Standard, the daily newspaper in Palmerston North, in 2011. I now spend most of my time gardening and working on my websites.

I have been writing poems, off and on, since I was 17, and have been a "published poet" since 1959. Many of my themes are from history and mythology.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Chinese gold miners' huts, Arrowtown, 2006