Garrick Batten
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Garrick Batten has been communicating with people all his long life, especially during his NZ and overseas agricultural career of adviser, manager, diplomat and farmer. Articles, conference and academic papers, pamphlets, radio, video, newsletters, newspaper columns and several books on technical topics have canvassed many rural enterprises, more recently in the goat industry. The latest is Big Buck$ for Pastoral Farmers. University qualifications in agriculture, accountancy, exporting and dispute resolution have meant a lot of writing too!
In his current writing, he is increasingly concerned with the disconnect between urban and rural NZ. What Happened to Haystacks & Horses? is a hybrid fiction/fact book accounting for changes in our rural life over the half-century up to 2000. In December 2017 he republished the fictional autobiography part as a stand-alone book, Farmer Bill. |
Encouraged by having several short fiction stories published, Garrick is working on and learning how to write more, each story with a rural connection. The initial book effort is Short Head and Yard, 18 five-minute stories on a variety of topics, each with a rural tag. That has been followed by Long head and Hold with 18 more longer short stories. Nine lives and Lessons is about a boy growing up learning from his cat.
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