Best New Zealand Poems 2008
Sources
Johanna Aitchison: ‘the air was freaky with champagne’ was published in Turbine 08
Hinemoana Baker: ‘Last Born’ was published in Turbine 08
Emma Barnes: ‘Passive Aggressive Letter To A John’ was published in Landfall 216, 2008
David Beach: ‘Te Aro 12’ was published in The End of Atlantic City, Victoria University Press, 2008
Peter Bland: ‘Seaside donkeys . . . ’ was published in Mr Maui’s Monologues, Steele Roberts, 2008
Jenny Bornholdt: ‘Fitter Turner’ was published in The Rocky Shore, Victoria University Press, 2008
Amy Brown: ‘The Propaganda Poster Girl’ was published in The Propaganda Poster Girl, Victoria University Press, 2008
Cliff Fell: ‘Two L tt s fo Lo d uth fo d’ was published in Beauty of the Badlands, Victoria University Press, 2008
Joan Fleming: ‘Theory of light’ was published in The Lumière Reader, 2008
Bernadette Hall: ‘Leda at the Billabong’ was published in Sport 36, 2008
Sam Hunt: ‘Lines for a New Year’ was published in Doubtless: New and Selected Poems, Craig Potton Publishing, 2008
Lynn Jenner: ‘Womens Business’ was published in Turbine 08
Michele Leggott: ‘the liberty of parrots’ was published in Trout 15, 2008
Jean McCormack: ‘Calling the ex at seventy-nine’ was published in ka mate ka ora 6, 2008
Emma Neale: ‘Mirror’ was published in Spark, Steele Roberts, 2008
Gregory O’Brien: ‘Romantic Voyage’ was published in Fulcrum 6, 2008
Bob Orr: ‘Kiwitahi Way’ was published in Calypso, Auckland University Press, 2008
Chris Orsman: ‘A First Landing’ was published in The Lakes of Mars, Auckland University Press, 2008
Richard Reeve: The untitled proem ‘Unheeding any language . . . ’ was published in In Continents, Auckland University Press, 2008
Sam Sampson: ‘Header Tank’ was published in Everything Talks, Auckland University Press, 2008
Kerrin P. Sharpe: ‘like rain the thunder’ was published in Bravado 13, 2008
Tim Upperton: ‘Four bananas’ was published in Turbine 08
Richard von Sturmer: ‘After Arp’ was published in Trout 15, 2008
Tom Weston: ‘Traffic noise’ was published in Small Humours of Daylight, Steele Roberts, 2008
Sonja Yelich: ‘Less’ was published in Get Some, Auckland University Press, 2008
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Editor: James Brown
Series Editor: Bill Manhire
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Permissions: Copyright in all the work reprinted in Best New Zealand Poems remains with the author. Requests to reproduce poems on this site should be addressed to the original publisher (see Sources above).
ISSN: 1175-8988