The Best of Best New Zealand Poems
The Best of Best New Zealand Poems

Author: Bill Manhire

Publisher: Victoria University Press

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 086473753X

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Since 2000, the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems has showcased the most exciting and memorable poetry produced in this country. Here, for the first time, is a selection of this work in book form. Edited by founding publisher Bill Manhire, and writer Damien Wilkins, this anthology is an indispensable guide to the richness, strangeness, and liveliness of contemporary poetry. With over sixty poets appearing, there's classic work by some of the best-known figures in our writing, including Sam Hunt, Allen Curnow, Jenny Bornholdt, Cilla McQueen, Elizabeth Smither, and Ian Wedde; there are also compelling poems from new writers. Each poet's own note on the selection illuminates the work and takes us inside the writer’s personal workshop. The first decade of the new century comes into view as a vibrant, argumentative, restless period, with our poets unafraid of either political engagement or strong personal feeling.

Salt River Songs
Salt River Songs

Author: Sam Hunt

Publisher:

Published: 2016-07

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780947503031

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Salt River Songs is Sam Hunt's latest collection of poems, written over the last few years in his house that sits amongst a grove of totara trees on the Arapaoa, one of the five main salt rivers of the Kaipara Harbour. As always, his unflinchingly honest, elegiac and moving poems roam around familiar themes of family, friends and lovers, and the challenges of ageing and mortality. Salt River Songs will also have an introduction from writer and journalist Colin Hogg, an old friend of Sam's and, appropriately, will be published to mark Sam's 70th birthday.

Essential New Zealand Poems
Essential New Zealand Poems

Author:

Publisher: Godwit

Published: 2014-07-04

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781775534594

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A must-have poetry companion for all lovers of New Zealand poetry New Zealanders adore poetry, and this expertly selected and handsomely packaged collection of over 150 poems published since the 1950s shows exactly why: New Zealand poetry is, by turns, distinctive, affecting, joyous, revealing, moving, challenging, startling, profound and intimate. It is our lyrical national voice. With its poems selected by Siobhan Harvey, Harry Ricketts and James Norcliffe, all talented poets, academics, anthologists and poetry champions, this book deserves a place on every New Zealander's bookshelves.

Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021

Author: Tracey Slaughter

Publisher: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780995135420

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Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. This issue, #55, features 182 poems by 129 poets, including Elizabeth Morton, Michele Leggott, essa may ranapiri, Bob Orr, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Jordan Hamel, David Eggleton and Mere Taito, the winning entries in the Poetry New Zealand Prize, essays, and reviews of 25 new poetry books. Compiled in a time of pandemic, these are poems written -- in the words of editor Tracey Slaughter -- when 'the only line to follow was deeper in, darker down, to poetry. The page was the only safe place our breath could go.'

Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020

Author: Johanna Emeney

Publisher: Massey University

Published: 2020-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780995122932

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Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up new poetry, reviews, and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. Issue #54 features 133 new poems (including by this year's featured poet, rising star essa may ranapiri, and C.K. Stead, Elizabeth Smither, Kevin Ireland, Chris Tse, Gregory Kan, Fardowsa Mohamed, and Tracey Slaughter); essays (including a graphic essay by Sarah Laing); and reviews of new poetry collections. Poems by the winners of both the Poetry New Zealand Award and the Poetry New Zealand Schools Award are among the line-up.

Collected Poems
Collected Poems

Author: Ursula Bethell

Publisher: Victoria University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780864733078

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Ursula Bethell lived from 1874-1945. Born in England, she lived in Christchurch from the 1920s and wrote poetry from 1924. This book contains her three published collections (From a Garden in the Antipodes, 1929, Time and Place, 1936, and Day and Night, Poems, 1924-35), and other poems. First published in 1985. This new edition contains a new introduction, textual notes, and index of titles and first lines.

The Best American Poetry 2012
The Best American Poetry 2012

Author: Mark Doty

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-09-18

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1439181527

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Edited this year by acclaimed poet and writer Doty, the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns. It is an essential guide to contemporary American verse and the poets who define it.

Goddess Muscle
Goddess Muscle

Author: Karlo Mila

Publisher: Huia Publishers

Published: 2020-10-23

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1775504042

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This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. They also focus on the internal and micro issues – the ending of a marriage, the hope of new relationships, and the daily politics of being a partner, woman and mother. The collection meditates on love and relationships and explores identity, culture, community and belonging with a voice that does not shy away from the difficult.

Beauties of the Octagonal Pool
Beauties of the Octagonal Pool

Author: Gregory O'Brien

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1775580237

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Making unexpected connections, this book collects poems written from a variety of times, locations, and experiences—from the water frontage of Fiji, Fiordland, and the Mediterranean to the built history of Moscow and Berlin. Filled with a thoughtful musicality, a shambling romance, and a sense of humor, these witty and imaginative poems tell stories that range from a mechanical rat on Raoul Island to a black negligée and an ice-cream vendor in Moscow, and from a mayor and the Mistral in France to a new musical sound in New Zealand. Engaging and lively, this compilation highlights the persistent self-consciousness about the relationship between language and the world.