Best New Zealand Poems 2009

Sources

Tusiata Avia: ‘Nafanua goes to Russia and meets some friends from back home’ was published in BloodclotVictoria University Press, 2009

Sarah Broom: ‘North’ was published in JAAM 27, 2009

Geoff Cochrane: 'What Sixty Minutes teaches' was published in Pocket EditionVictoria University Press2009

Jennifer Compton: 'The Threepenny Kowhai Stamp Brooch' was published in Quadrant2009

Lynn Davidson: 'Before we all hung out in cafés' was published in How to live by the seaVictoria University Press2009

John Gallas: 'the Mongolian Women's Orchestra' was published in Poetry London Newsletter2009

Bernadette Hall: 'The Fox' was published in The Lustre JugVictoria University Press2009

David Howard: 'Overture: Aotearoa' was published in Takahe 682009

Lynn Jenner: 'A Hassidic story might start . . .' was published in JAAM 272009

Brent Kininmont: 'Morphine' was published in Sport 372009

Michele Leggott: 'nice feijoas' was published in Mirabile DictuAuckland University Press2009

Emma Neale: 'Proposal' was published in Takahe 672009

James Norcliffe: 'yet another poem about a giraffe' was published in Cincinnatti Review 6.22009

Gregory O'Brien: 'Dylan Thomas (b.2003), Coolmore Stud, New South Wales' was published in small edible garden, Fernbank Studio/Wellington Plains, 2009

Chris Price: 'Stowage' was published in The Blind SingerAuckland University Press2009

Kerrin P. Sharpe: ‘a possible journey’ was published in Turbine 09

Marty Smith: 'Hat' was published in Sport 372009

Elizabeth Smither: 'Two adorable things about Mozart' was published in Raven Chronicles, Vol. 14, No. 1: Legacies  and subsequently in Quadrant and the New Zealand Listener2009

C.K. Stead: 'At the Villa dei Pini' was published in Landfall 2172009

Brian Turner: 'Fear' was published in Just ThisVictoria University Press2009

Tim Upperton: 'The starlings' was published in A House on FireSteele Roberts2009

Louise Wallace: 'The Poi Girls' was published in Since JuneVictoria University Press2009

Ian Wedde: 'Metalworx Engineering' is part of a longer verse sequence 'from Good Business', published in Good BusinessAuckland University Press2009

Douglas Wright: 'Exposure' was published in the New Zealand Listener2009

Ashleigh Young: 'Certain Trees' was published in Sport 372009

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Credits

Editor: Robyn Marsack

Series Editor: Bill Manhire

Funded by: Creative New Zealand

Cover illustration: Ralph Hotere’s drawing for the first edition of James K Baxter’s Jerusalem Sonnets (Bibliography Room, University of Otago, 1970)

Site construction: the International Institute of Modern Letters

Project administration: Clare Moleta and Claire Brunette

Feedback to: modernletters@vuw.ac.nz

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