On Tuesday 8 September 2026, we gathered at Unity Books Wellington to celebrate the publication of Abby Letteri's new book, Perfectly Themselves: Horses in the Human World. Here is Damien Wilkins' lau...

Lisa Adler from Unity Books Wellington reviews Perfectly Themselves: Horses in the Human World by Abby Letteri, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press.

Two writers take the horse as the subject of their memoirs, with very different approaches. They discuss writing, and life with, or alongside, horses.

When despair for the world grows in me / and I wake in the night at the least sound / in fear of what...

When Abby Letteri first encountered free-living horses, she realised that her whole life she’d been looking at horses without actually seeing them. Wild horses spend their lives building and maintaini...

We’ve found the horses here in this damp valley, tied to a fence in front of a slightly derelict farmhouse.

When Abby Letteri first encountered free-living horses, she realised that her whole life she’d been looking at horses without actually seeing them. Wild horses spend their lives building and maintaini...

Here's something from the Southern Hemisphere for those in snowbound Northern regions.

Survival and Flourishing on the Edge of the Anthropocene

An occasional Substack of creative writing about being with, observing and caring for horses — and other animals, including human animals.

Podcast Episode · Changing Rein · 08/11/2025 · 1h

Creative writer Abby Letteri's research took her from Iceland, to the Mongolian Desert, where she studied the behaviour of free-living and wild horses.

Abby Letteri started her PhD with a simple aim—to bring together horses and writing, the two great passions of her life.