Morgan Bach: ‘The Swimming Pool’ was published in Some of Us Eat the Seeds, Victoria University Press, 2015

Serie Barford: ‘The flying fox and Che Guevara’ was published in Entangled Islands, Anahera Press, 2015.

Sarah Jane Barnett: ‘Addis Ababa’ was published in Work, Hue & Cry Press, 2015

David Beach: ‘Wellington Zoo’ was published in Jerusalem Sonnets, Love, Wellington Zoo, Victoria University Press, 2015

Hera Lindsay Bird: ‘Pain Imperatives’ was published in LEFT, 2015

Wystan Curnow: ‘Episodes’ was published in London Review of Books vol. 37, no. 6, 2015

John Dennison: ‘Ecce’ was published in Otherwise, Auckland University Press, 2015

Belinda Diepenheim: ‘Nothing new under the sky’ was published in Waybread & Flax, Steele Roberts Aotearoa, 2015

Murray Edmond: ‘Here I Give Thanks to Modernism’ was published in Shaggy Magpie Songs, Auckland University Press, 2015

Joan Fleming: ‘The Invention of Enough’ was published in Failed Love Poems, Victoria University Press, 2015

Bernadette Hall: ‘Actaeon’ was published in Sport, 43, 2015

Dinah Hawken: ‘The lake, the bloke and the bike’ was published in Ocean and Stone, Victoria University Press, 2015

Alexandra Hollis: ‘Heat Death’ was published in Sweet Mammalian, vol. 2, 2015

Brent Kininmont: ‘Shopping’ was published in Thuds Underneath, Victoria University Press, 2015

Iain Lonie: ‘The Entrance to Purgatory’ was published in A Place to Go On From: The Collected Poems of Iain Lonie, Otago University Press, 2015

Selina Tusitala Marsh: ‘Black White Desiring’ was published in Blackmail Press 41, 2015

Frankie McMillan: ‘Grinding the wind’ was published in There are no horses in heaven, Canterbury University Press, 2015

Gregory O'Brien: ‘A burning tyre, Nuku’alofa’ was published in Whale Years, Auckland University Press, 2015

Vincent O'Sullivan: ‘Sunday being when I write’ was published in Being Here: Selected Poems, Victoria University Press, 2015

Frances Samuel: ‘Life-drawing class’ was published in Cordite 51.0 TRANSTASMAN, 2015

kani te manukura: ‘te pōrere’ was published in JAAM 33, 2015

Steven Toussaint: ‘The Pond’ was published in The Bellfounder, The Cultural Society, 2015

Bryan Walpert: ‘This poem is conversational’ was published in Native Bird, Hoopla series, Mākaro Press, 2015

Alison Wong: ‘Autumn, Shanghai’ was published in Australian Poetry Journal vol. 5, no. 2, 2015

Ashleigh Young: ‘Electrolarynx’ was published in Sweet Mammalian vol. 2, 2015

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