An acerbic wit and and astute observations dominate the poems in A Riderless Horse, the latest collection by Palmerston North wordsmith, Tim Upperton. Tim's two previous poetry collections were A House on Fire and The Night We Ate the Baby. He's a three-time winner of the Caselberg International Poetry Competition, and he's both a creative writing teacher and landscape gardener. Most of the poems in A Riderless Horse have had an earlier life, having been seen in a range of publications. But Tim tells Lynn Freeman he's reworked most of them for this collection. A Riderless Horse by Tim Upperton is published by Auckland University Press.