Stephen Bailey
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- 5512
- Aotearoa (New Zealand)
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- Stephen Bailey is a geographical, societal, and poetic fringe dweller. He resumed writing poems towards publication in 2011 after a voluntary abstention from poem-writing since 1974 following the birth of his first-born daughter. He assumed the pen-name of Hansha Teki to mark this change of direction, but resumed his birth name at the beginning of 2023 to re-engage with his former path. Of his later parallel poems, poet and translator Eric Selland stated that "Possibly the most significant development in haiku-influenced poetry in our generation, these are both intensely personal and metaphysical poems – the very heart of becoming – in which the poem exceeds its own form, attaining something much larger"
