Iain Britton is a poet from Aotearoa New Zealand. He was born and educated in Palmerston North. Since 2008 he has had five collections of poems including pamphlets published mainly in the UK: Hauled Head First into a Leviathan (Cinnamon Press) was nominated for Best First Collection category in the Forward Poetry Prizes 2008. Further collections followed: Liquefaction (Interactive Press 2009) Cravings (Oystercatcher Press 2009) druidic approaches (Lapwing Publications 2011) Punctured Experimental (Kilmog Press 2010) and Photosynthesis (Kilmog Press 2014) Also his work was included in the Shearcatcher Poetry Anthology published by Shearsman Books 2012.