Best New Zealand Poems 2011
Sources
John Adams: ‘An order is sought for the destruction of the stapler’ was published in Briefcase, Auckland University Press, 2011
Tusiata Avia: ‘Wairua Rd’ was published in Takahē 72, 2011
Hera Lindsay Bird: ‘The most beautiful love poem of all time’ was published in Turbine 11
Peter Bland: ‘In Dad’s old council house’ was published in Coming Ashore, Steele Roberts, 2011
Rachel Bush: ‘Pig Hunting’ was published in Nice Pretty Things, Victoria University Press, 2011
Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle: ‘(A lifetime of sentences)’ was published in a fine line, November 2011, NZ Poetry Society
Joan Fleming: ‘YOUNG WOMAN TALKING TO A DIFFICULT POEM SHE HAS LOVED FOR MANY YEARS’ was published in The Same as Yes, Victoria University Press, 2011, and the New Zealand Listener
Janis Freegard: ‘Gator’ was published in Kingdom Animalia: The Escapades of Linnaeus, Auckland University Press, 2011
Rhian Gallagher: ‘Under the Pines’ was published in Shift, Auckland University Press, 2011
Rob Hack: ‘Despite Meena’ was published in Landfall 221, Otago Univeristy Press, 2011
Dinah Hawken: ‘Building sonnets’ was published in The Leaf-ride, Victoria University Press, 2011
Anna Jackson: ‘Margo, or Margaux’ was published in Thicket, Auckland University Press, 2011
Brent Kininmont: ‘Seto Ohashi Bridge’ was published in Sport 39, 2011
Michele Leggott: ‘olive’ was published in Otoliths, 2011
Helen Lehndorf: ‘Wabi-sabi’ was published in The Comforter, Seraph Press, 2011, and Sport 39, 2011
Kate McKinstry: ‘Departure Lounge’ was published in Landfall 221, Otago University Press, 2011
Bill Manhire: ‘The Schoolbus’ was published in Sport 39, 2011
Harvey Molloy: ‘The Last Surrealist’ was published in Enamel, 2011
James Norcliffe: ‘The Death of Seneca’ was published in Petrichor Machine, 2011
Rachel O'Neill: ‘Early Growth’ was published in Turbine 11
Marty Smith: ‘Emphysema For Aunty Gwen’ was published in Sport 39, 2011
Rānui Taiapa: ‘Journey Through Time in 5 Digits’ was published in Landfall 221, Otago University Press, 2011
Tim Upperton: ‘The Trouble with Poetry’ was published in Sport 39, 2011
Louise Wallace: ‘The Thing’ was published in Turbine 11
Douglas Wright: ‘herd’ was published in cactusfear, Steele Roberts, 2011
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Credits
Editor: Bernadette Hall
Series Editor: Chris Price
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: International Institute of Modern Letters
Project administration: Hannah Newport-Watson and Clare Moleta
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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