Drinking With Li Bai

Drinking With Li Bai features 100 haiku composed by New Zealand poet Doc Drumheller while he was visiting China and India. Doc Drumheller was born in Charleston, South Carolina and has lived in New Zealand for more than half his life. He has worked in award-winning theatre and music groups and has published eleven collections of poetry. His poems have been translated into more than twenty languages, and he has performed in Cuba, Lithuania, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Japan, India, China, Nicaragua, USA, Mexico, El Salvador, and widely throughout New Zealand. On his travels Doc Drumheller has represented the Waimakariri District as a Cultural Ambassador to Enshi in a Sister City Cultural Exchange. He was appointed New Zealand Director of the Silk Road Poetry Project, and has represented New Zealand at international poetry festivals in China and India.