Many congratulations to Massey University student and tutor Tim Upperton.  Tim is a creative writing PhD student studying under Associate Professor Bryan Walpert as well as a creative writing tutor on the Manawatu campus. Tim’s second collection of poetry, The Night We Ate the Baby (Haunui Press) has made the short list for the Ockham 2016 National Book Awards.  The Poetry category’s convenor of judges, Elizabeth Caffin, says choosing a shortlist of four from the ten longlisted poetry collections seemed at first a breeze.  “Extraordinarily, we all instantly agreed on three books: Roger Horrocks’ The Ghost in the Machine, Tim Upperton’s The Night We Ate the Baby and David Eggleton’s The Conch Trumpet.” See the link for the full story: http://www.booksellers.co.nz/…/ockham-new-zealand-book-awar…