Best New Zealand Poems 2009
Sources
Tusiata Avia: ‘Nafanua goes to Russia and meets some friends from back home’ was published in Bloodclot, Victoria University Press, 2009
Sarah Broom: ‘North’ was published in JAAM 27, 2009
Geoff Cochrane: 'What Sixty Minutes teaches' was published in Pocket Edition, Victoria University Press, 2009
Jennifer Compton: 'The Threepenny Kowhai Stamp Brooch' was published in Quadrant, 2009
Lynn Davidson: 'Before we all hung out in cafés' was published in How to live by the sea, Victoria University Press, 2009
John Gallas: 'the Mongolian Women's Orchestra' was published in Poetry London Newsletter, 2009
Bernadette Hall: 'The Fox' was published in The Lustre Jug, Victoria University Press, 2009
David Howard: 'Overture: Aotearoa' was published in Takahe 68, 2009
Lynn Jenner: 'A Hassidic story might start . . .' was published in JAAM 27, 2009
Brent Kininmont: 'Morphine' was published in Sport 37, 2009
Michele Leggott: 'nice feijoas' was published in Mirabile Dictu, Auckland University Press, 2009
Emma Neale: 'Proposal' was published in Takahe 67, 2009
James Norcliffe: 'yet another poem about a giraffe' was published in Cincinnatti Review 6.2, 2009
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 Singer, Auckland University Press, 2009
Kerrin P. Sharpe: ‘a possible journey’ was published in Turbine 09
Marty Smith: 'Hat' was published in Sport 37, 2009
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 Listener, 2009
C.K. Stead: 'At the Villa dei Pini' was published in Landfall 217, 2009
Brian Turner: 'Fear' was published in Just This, Victoria University Press, 2009
Tim Upperton: 'The starlings' was published in A House on Fire, Steele Roberts, 2009
Louise Wallace: 'The Poi Girls' was published in Since June, Victoria University Press, 2009
Ian Wedde: 'Metalworx Engineering' is part of a longer verse sequence 'from Good Business', published in Good Business, Auckland University Press, 2009
Douglas Wright: 'Exposure' was published in the New Zealand Listener, 2009
Ashleigh Young: 'Certain Trees' was published in Sport 37, 2009
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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
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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