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Poet David Herkt was born in New Zealand. In the 1980s he moved to Australia where he lived for about 15 years, mainly in Melbourne, where he also worked as an HIV/AIDS educator and performed as an actor. He had returned to New Zealand by 2002. Herkt has also worked as a researcher and newspaper editor.
