James Norcliffe is an award-winning New Zealand poet and fiction writer. His fifth collection, Along Blueskin Road (Canterbury University Press), was published in 2005, and this year Auckland University Press published Villon in Millerton. His young adult fantasy novel The Assassin of Gleam won the Sir Julius Vogel Award this year. Recent work has appeared in The Greensboro Review, Alimentum, Nimrod, The Cincinnati Review, Poetry International, Harvard Review, and The London Magazine. He is poetry editor for Takahe Magazine and poetry editor for the Christchurch Press. (7/2007)