Poet Craig A. Roberts, tangata-tiriti, is from Aotearoa New Zealand,  the emergent island highlands of a vast drowned continent Te Riu-a-Māui (Zealandia). He lives above the deep realm of oceans on e Ika-a-Māui (North Island),  one of over 700 isles. There is a mountain close by called Kapakapanui. From its slopes the waters of the Waikanae River flow to the sea. His father’s forbears left their beloved mountains and glens of Perthshire Highlands to Lanarkshire, Scotland. His mother’s left the ripe fields of Northumbria. Over the generations the journeys of Craig’s forebears brought them to these tectonic isles. 

Craig, previously worked as an applied social scientist alongside leaders as they rowed through infinite storms. Nowadays he chooses to reach others writing poetry to speak into this age of disenchantment. He writes through a Celtic lens on the restorative grace of Solas Chrìost [Christ’s Light] transforming yesterday’s fight with tomorrow’s life. His books have been published in New York and Dublin and made their way to be read in quiet spaces around the globe. 

Craig is a member of the Community of Aidan and Hilda. When asked to express his core Christian beliefs he says, ‘there is One God Father Almighty made known to us through the God the Son and the Spirit’, and recites this poem inspired by the writings of Saint Irenaeus of Lyons:

Pilgrim Journeys

We are partakers of God 

through the Holy Spirit.


We are transformed by God

through the power of the Cross.


We become made fully human,

the image of Christ - the glory of God.


It’s an intimate journey 

with our Triune God.