Not quite Sir Sam

But was it the plan

Well it's not quite poetry. But a big round of applause to Kiwi poet and balladeer Sam Hunt who became a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to poetry in the Queens Birthday Honours List. He was previously awarded the Queen's Service Medal in 1986.

We have plenty of Sam Hunt poetry in the library. His biography Backroads was published last year.

Here is the Dominion Post tribute on his honour and another from the Otago Daily Times.