This is a funky little collection designed to capture the good things about Auckland in the 1980s offset against the feeling of loss and emptiness felt at the end of an intense love affair with the destruction of so many of the city’s older buildings. The idea of Mount Albert being just as important as Montmatre if you live there pervades the whole collection. The title Livin’ ina Aucklan reflects the language of the streets and the whole project was a coming together of the way we lived in those days. This new edition includes a long more recent poem Auckland Revisited written in 2008.