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 仁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