Background
Hunt grew up at Castor Bay on the North Shore of Auckland. His commitment to writing poetry probably came from his mother. Hunt's father, a barrister, was sixty when Hunt was born (his mother was 30). Yet Hunt loved his unconventional parents and " ... early poems featuring his father remain amongst his best". Hunt has an older brother, Jonathan, and both of them have an older half-brother, Alexander Hunt.
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