Best New Zealand Poems 2016

Sources

Nick Ascroft: ‘Beaux’ was published in Back with the Human Condition, Victoria University Press, 2016

Tusiata Avia: ‘This is a photo of my house’ was published in Fale Aitu | Spirit House, Victoria University Press, 2016

Airini Beautrais: ‘Port Bowen’ was published in Landfall 232, Otago University Press, 2016

James Brown: ‘Emu’ was published in Sport 44, Victoria University Press, 2016

Hera Lindsay Bird: ‘If you are an Ancient Egyptian Pharoah’ was published in Hera Lindsay Bird, Victoria University Press, 2016

Rachel Bush: ‘All my feelings would have been of common things’ was published in Thought Horses, Victoria University Press, 2016

John Dennison: ‘Birdman’ was published in PN Review 230, Carcanet Press, 2016

Ish Doney: ‘Miscarriage’ was published in Where the fish grow, Mākaro Press, 2016

Lynley Edmeades: ‘Calm and’ was published in Sport 44, Victoria University Press, 2016

Rata Gordon: ‘A Baby’ was published in Landfall 231, Otago University Press, 2016

Bernadette Hall: ‘The perfumes of Arabia’ was published in Catalyst 13Republic of Oma Rāpeti Press, 2016

Scott Hamilton: ‘Homage to Tongan poets’ was published in Landfall 232, Otago University Press, 2016

Adrienne Jansen: ‘A woman is kneeling in a stream’ was published in Keel & Drift, Landing Press, 2016

Andrew Johnston: ‘The Otorhinolaryngologist’ was published in Fits & Starts, Victoria University Press, 2016

Anna Livesey: ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was published in Sport 44, Victoria University Press, 2016

Bill Manhire: ‘Indexing Emily’ was published in Australian Book Review no. 384, Australian Book Review, 2016

Leslie McKay: ‘Bold Feral and Tender’ was published in Landfall 232, Otago University Press, 2016

Bill Nelson: ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ was published in Memorandum of Understanding, Victoria University Press, 2016

Claire Orchard: ‘Charms’ was published in Landfall 231, Otago University Press, 2016

Vincent O'Sullivan: ‘Plot lines’ was published in And so it is, Victoria University Press, 2016

Kerrin P. Sharpe: ‘no sweat’ was published in Rabbit Rabbit, Victoria University Press, 2016

Marty Smith: ‘Swing low, sweet chariot’ was published in Sport 44, Victoria University Press, 2016

Oscar Upperton: ‘Door against the cold’ was published in Sport 44, Victoria University Press, 2016

Tim Upperton: ‘In Topeka, Kansas’ was published in Sport 44, Victoria University Press, 2016

Ashleigh Young: ‘Process’ was published in Sport 44, Victoria University Press, 2016

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Credits

Editor: Jenny Bornholdt

Series Editor: Chris Price

Funded by: Creative New Zealand

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

Site construction: Rachel O'Neill and the International Institute of Modern Letters

Project administration: Hannah Mettner and Clare Moleta

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).

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