THE POET SAILOR
Poets that sail are surprisingly rare. New Zealand poets that sail are even rarer still. That is until Denis Glover hove over the horizon with a printing press and a head full of verse.
In the literary world, Denis Glover is most famous for founding the Caxton Press. With business partner John Drew and typographer Leo Bensemann, they published the likes of R. A. K. Mason, Allen Curnow, Charles Brasch and Frank Sargeson. While Glover would never admit it himself, he was the equal of these poets/writers and together they became some of the founding authors of New
