Country Life / Rural

A dive back in time with poet Mike McGee

21:29 pm on 26 August 2022

A dive back in time with poet Mike McGee

Cam Stevenson, and his border collie Pig, are part of a hit team of professional hunters tasked with cleansing the area of feral goats.

Photo: RNZ / Logan Church

For more than fifty years Whanganui man Mike McGee hunted and tramped in the bush and ranges of the North Island.  The love of the outdoors was in his blood and spurred him to write many poems about the back country.