Best New Zealand Poems 2017

Sources

Airini Beautrais: ‘Pākaitore’ was published in Flow: Whanganui River Poems, Victoria University Press, 2017

Liz Breslin: ‘The Lifestyle Creed’ was published in Alzheimer's and a Spoon, Otago University Press, 2017

Janet Charman: ‘A Writing Exercise’ was published in Surrender, Otago University Press, 2017

Makyla Curtis: ‘cartographies I’ was published in Atlanta Review, Spring—Summer 2017

Annelyse Gelman: ‘Hospital’ was published in Mimicry 3, 2017

Gregory Kan: ‘There is a house that we are in’ was published in Atlanta Review, Spring—Summer 2017

Ben Kemp: ‘Food to Song’ was published in Blackmail Press 43, October 2017

Jiaqiao Liu: ‘With Love’ was published in Blackmail Press 42, March 2017

Ria Masae: ‘Chipped China’ was published in Blackmail Press 42, March 2017

Courtney Sina Meredith: ‘eye’ was published in Mimicry 3, 2017

Hannah Mettner: ‘All Tall Women’ was published in Fully Clothed and So Forgetful, Victoria University Press, 2017

Karlo Mila: ‘Mana’ was published in New Zealand Author, New Zealand Society of Authors, Autumn 2017

Tru Paraha: ‘a moanan theory of reality television’ was published in Blackmail Press 42, March 2017

Nina Powles: ‘If Katherine Mansfield Were My Best Friend’ was published in Luminescent, Seraph Press, 2017

Vaughan Rapatahana: ‘My Father's Death’ was published in Blackmail Press 42, March 2017

Emma Shi: ‘skipping dead insects across the ocean’ was published in Poetry New Zealand blog, 2017

Carin Smeaton: ‘Why she quit Queen at night’ was published in Tales of the Waihorotiu, Titus Books 2017

Marty Smith: ‘To the trees of summer’ was published in The Spinoff Books, 08-12-2017

Mere Taito: ‘The quickest way to trap a folktale’ was published in Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems, ed. Philip Temple and Emma Neale, Otago University Press, 2017

Angela Trolove: ‘Hitch’ was published in Blackmail Press 42, March 2017

Jamie Trower: ‘Stop/move’ was published in Atlanta Review, Spring—Summer 2017

Chris Tse: ‘Like a queen’ was published in Atlanta Review, Spring—Summer 2017

Louise Wallace: ‘Ahakoa he iti he pounamu | Although it is small it is greenstone’ was published in Bad Things, Victoria University Press, 2017

Albert Wendt: ‘Into the First Cold’ was published in Takahē 91, 2017

Briar Wood: ‘One World’ was published in Rāwāhi, Anahera Press, 2017

 

Credits

Editor: Selina Tusitala Marsh

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: Airini Beautrais

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ISSN: 1175-8988