Blundstones and a Brown Dog is about living in the real world with your heart and your eyes wide open. This collection, written over a twenty-five-year period, speaks about the perplexity of simple things: love, death, longing, friendship, hope. Its voice is human, fallible, incomplete. It's about the journey and the dreaming; it's about lives as precious and fragile as fine china. Christopher Nailer was born in New Zealand. He is married to Helen, has daughters Ruth and Lindsay, and a brown dog. He's had various careers so far and now teaches in Canberra.