Peter Croucher

1952 -



Peter Croucher was born in Masterton and was educated at Palmerston North Boys High School and Wellington Polytechnic. He started writing in 1970. He now lives in Carterton.

Biographical sources

  • Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Māori Writing. Ed. Witi Ihimaera and D. S. Long. Auckland, N.Z.: Heinemann, 1982.

    Non-fiction

  • "Dalvanious [sic] and the Fascinations." Tu Tangata 11 (1983): 26-27.
  • A biography of Dalvanius’s music career, his Maui record label, and his working the New Zealand circuit with his sister Barletta.
  • Poetry

  • "The Good Old Days." Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Māori Writing. Ed. Witi Ihimaera and D. S. Long. Auckland, N.Z.: Heinemann, 1982. 256-257.
  • The speaker remembers the carefree days of his past where work played second fiddle to drinking, brawling and womanising. The poem infers that the old days of indolent pleasure-seeking have passed and that the future contains storms of unemployment, lack of finances and increased responsibilities that must all be faced.
  • "Work." Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Māori Writing. Ed. Witi Ihimaera and D. S. Long. Auckland, N.Z.: Heinemann, 1982. 257.
  • The poet describes in economic, understated language a view of the "black mudflats" of the river estuary and "the silver river" flowing down to the sea.