Something in the Waters
John Horrocks

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About the Book

John Horrocks has enjoyed a long relationship with Rotorua. These poems are about the life of the lake and its spa, and like his previous book, Raw Places, they engage with an extraordinary environment. Rotorua’s thermal waters continue to lure visitors from around the world. The mud, massage and other offerings in the bathhouses, often involving electric shocks and x-rays, now seem bizarre. In Something in the Waters we see how these intimate treatments, like many contemporary makeovers, fuelled belief in bodily and mental transformations.

About the Author

John Horrocks spent much of his childhood at his grandparents’ house at Rotorua. His poems recall the lake at this time — when the water was clear and many of the surrounding hills were covered in bush — and the town itself, with the spa in the Government Gardens in its final years. 

John is a research co-ordinator in the School of Health Sciences at the Wellington Institute of Technology. His previous volume of poems, Raw Places (2006) was based on his experiences as a farmer in the Tararua foothills.