Hinemoana Baker: ‘One’ was published in Sport 34, 2006

Serie (Cherie) Barford: ‘Making Siapo’ was published in Trout 13/Tinfish 16, 2006

Jenny Bornholdt: ‘Medical’ was published in Sport 34, 2006

James Brown: ‘University Open Day’ was published in The Year of the Bicycle, Victoria University Press, 2006

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell: ‘The Brigadier’s Secret Weapon’ was published in Trout 14, 2006

Geoff Cochrane: ‘Negative Buoyancy’ was published in Sport 34, 2006

Murray Edmond: ‘Setting the Seal on NZ Poetry’ was published in Trout 13/Tinfish 16, 2006

David Eggleton: ‘The Weather Bomb’ was published in Bravado 5, 2006

Cliff Fell: ‘Ovid in the Antipodes’ was published in Manhire at 60: A Book for Bill, Victoria University Press / Sport, 2006

Brian Flaherty: ‘White Scarves’ was published in Turbine 2006

Paula Green: ‘Letter to Michele Leggott’ was published in Oban 06, 2006

Bernadette Hall: ‘The White Dress’ was published in Turbine, 2006

Anna Jackson: ‘Indeed I can quite freely step inside’ was published in The Gas Leak, Auckland University Press, 2006.

Andrew Johnston: ‘Splinters’ was published in Oban 06, 2006

Michele Leggott: ‘Leaving the house’ was published in Magdalena Aotearoa, 2006

Selina Tusitala Marsh: ‘Not Another Nafanua Poem’ was published in How2, 2006

Karlo Mila: ‘Pulotu Wings’ was published in Blackmail Press 17, 2006

Gregory O’Brien: ‘A Small Ode to Faith’ was published in Manhire at 60: A Book for Bill, Victoria University Press / Sport, 2006

Brian Potiki: ‘poem for te riria’ was published in Trout 14, 2006

Chris Price: ‘1905: Einstein, Rilke, Picasso’ is part of a verse essay published in Are Angels OK?, Victoria University Press, 2006

Elizabeth Smither: ‘Two security guards talking about Jupiter’ was published in Turbine, 2006.

C.K Stead: ‘From the Notebook with the Paua Shell Swan’ was published with the essay ‘S — T — R — 0 — K — E’ in Sport 34, 2006

J.C Sturm: ‘At a Colin McCahon exhibition’ was published in The Glass House, Steele Roberts, 2006

Richard von Sturmer: ‘Film Tanka’ was published in Trout 13/Tinfish 16, 2006

Alison Wong: ‘The Archaeologist’ was published in Cup, Steele Roberts, 2006

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