First of all, my thanks to the people at the International Institute of Modern Letters (how can anyone not read IIML as a very large Roman numeral?) who invited me to be this year’s editor of Best (25) New Zealand Poems. I’m honoured, but more importantly have had a great time as the astonishing (approximately IIML) number of book parcels, email attachments, letters, web-links, and the occasional phone-call just kept on coming. Read on >