Posted November 10, 2026
Join us to celebrate a new collection of poetry ‘Enclosed in a Cage of Bone’ by Heather Bauchop, published by Sudden Valley Press.
Heather Bauchop
Heather’s poetry and short stories has appeared in journals and anthologies in New Zealand and internationally, including Headland, Alluvia, and Poetry New Zealand, Fiction Pool, and Fresh Ink. Her short story ‘Helicopter’ won the 2016 Takahē short story competition. In 2018, she held a New Zealand Society of Authors mentorship. Her first poetry collection ‘Remembering a Place I’ve Never Been’ was published in 2018 by Cold Hub Press. Her narrative poem ‘The Life in Small Deaths’ won the 2018 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems, and was self published. Enclosed in a Cage of Bone is her third collection.
Heather was born in San Francisco to a Shetland-born mother and a Scottish father. Her family came to New Zealand from Aberdeen in the early 1970s aboard the Angelino Lauro. She is a historian by training and has worked in the built heritage field for many years. She currently lives in Dunedin. Enclosed in a Cage of Bone draws on her interest in how we create our own stories to make sense of the world.
