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Dracula In The Colonies

Dracula falls on his feet in Aotearoa, on a stolen estate between braided river and the Main Divide. Sophisticated and devious, he ends up at the centre of power trying to influence the future of a nation. Tim Jones arrives here by ship from Lincolnshire to find a place of treacherous coastlines, mountain passes and cold southern air. Like Dracula he goes north to Wellington.

There are other characters jostling in Tim’s poems: a mother who is subjected to electric-shock therapy, the knight of lost causes, an angel who invests in a startup, a rapid hedgehog. And all the while the waves come closer. Dracula in the Colonies is Tim Jones at his most serious and his most playful, ‘his feet leaving marks on the path to the page’.

Published by The Cuba Press
ISBN:  978-1-98-859596-2

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More books by Tim Jones

  • Cover of Dracula in the Colonies, a poetry collection by Tim Jones, published by The Cuba Press in 2025. The cover shows an outline map of Aotearoa/New Zealand on a mustard yellow background, with the name of the book and author in red.
  • Emergency Weather cover with title lettering on blue sky background
  • Where We Land cover with aerial view of green tide on sand
  • New Sea Land cover with tightrope walker over blue water
  • Landfall cover with drawing of delapidated house on blue background
  • The STars Like Sand cover with aerial view of a beach with footprints and a star drawn in the sand
  • Men Briefly Explained cover with a man holding a bunch of red flowers
  • Transported cover is turquoise and brown with various objects including a compass and an owl
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About Tim

Tim Jones is a poet and author who lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington. He was awarded the NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship in 2022. His new poetry collection is Dracula in the Colonies (The Cuba Press, 2025). His recent books include climate fiction novel Emergency Weather (The Cuba Press, 2023) and climate fiction novella Where We Land (The Cuba Press, 2019).