Hone Tuwhare lives in a tiny house in the South Otago settlement of Kaka Point, where he continues to write prolifically.
Early in 1996 he allowed a film crew to observe him at home, around Kaka Point, and travelling the country reading his work. The result is a punchy portrait of a remarkable poet and a great New Zealand character.
The documentary shows him shaping and polishing a new love poem…visiting old drinking haunts around Dunedin…reading to a hall full of entranced school pupils in wellington…and long the way expounding his distinctive views on everything from the Bible to Karl Marx’s love life.