Maha Al Mansour: ‘The garden’ was published in More of Us (ed. Adrienne Jansen with Clare Arnot, Danushka Devinda and Wesley Hollis), Landing Press, 2019.

Alisdair Armstrong: ‘Sitting in a blast crater’ was published in Mimicry 5 (ed. Holly Hunter), 2019.

Tusiata Avia: ‘Massacre’ was published in The Spinoff (poetry ed. Ashleigh Young), 14 June 2019.

Amy Brown: this excerpt is from the long poem sequence published as Neon Daze, Victoria University Press, 2019.

Geoff Cochrane: ‘The Black and the White’ was published in The Black and the White , Victoria University Press, 2019.

Harold Coutts: ‘poems about boys’ was published in Starling, Issue 7 (ed. Louise Wallace, Francis Cooke and Chris Tse), 2019.

Freya Daly Sadgrove: ‘Turducken’ was first published in The Spinoff (poetry ed. Ashleigh Young), 15 November 2019. It was subsequently included in the debut collection Head Girl, Victoria University Press, 2020.

Lynn Davidson: ‘This thing on my wall’ was published in Islander, Victoria University Press, 2019.

Carolyn DeCarlo: ‘The year I let my heart go asunder’ was published in AUP New Poets 5 (ed. Anna Jackson), Auckland University Press, 2019.

Michael Harlow: ‘Sunday morning with pictures’ was published in The Moon in a Bowl of Water, Otago University Press, 2019.

Rebecca Hawkes: ‘Gremlin in sundress’ was first published in Starling, Issue 7 (ed. Louise Wallace, Francis Cooke and Chris Tse), Summer 2019. It was subsequently included as part of the chapbook ‘Softcore coldsores’ in AUP New Poets 5 (ed. Anna Jackson), Auckland University Press, 2019.

Ash Davida Jane: ‘Love poems when all the flowers are dead’ was published in Starling, Issue 7 (ed. Louise Wallace, Francis Cooke and Chris Tse), Summer 2019.

Simone Kaho: untitled poem sequence was published in Tākahe 95 , Tākahe Collective Trust) 2019.

Gregory Kan: ‘untitled’ was first published in The Spinoff (Friday Poem ed. Ashleigh Young), 8 February 2019. It was subsequently included in the collection Under Glass (Auckland University Press), 2019.

Wes Lee: ‘By the Lapels’ was first published in the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019 (ed. Jack Ross), Massey University Press, March 2019. It was subsequently included in By the Lapels, Steele Roberts Aotearoa, October 2019.

Talia Marshall: ‘Laughter makes the river rise better than her rain’ was published in Sport 47 (Guest ed. Tayi Tibble), Victoria University Press, 2019.

Nithya Narayanan: ‘Hiroshima’ was published in Starling, Issue 8 (ed. Louise Wallace and Francis Cooke), Winter 2019. It was subsequently included in Hainamana as part of the 2020 Epigraph project (ed. Amy Weng and Alison Wong), March 2020.

Rachel O’Neill: ‘The place of hates’ was published in Haunts, a collaboration between Pōneke based collectives Salty and Food Court, 2 November 2019.

essa may ranapiri: ‘a phone call about the nature of pronouns gendered and otherwise’ was published in ransack, Victoria University Press, 2019.

Ursula Robinson-Shaw: ‘Sonnet for the good meat’ was published in Noonday, Puncher and Wattman, 2019.

Charlotte Simmonds: ‘No one doesn't love you like I do’ was published in Cordite 93: Peach (Guest ed. Lucy Van, Ling Toong and George Mouratidis), November 2019.

Tracey Slaughter: ‘Love AD’ was first published in Ngā Kupu Waikato: an anthology of Waikato Poetry (ed. Vaughan Rapatahana), Print House, 2019. It was subsequently included in the collection Conventional Weapons , Victoria University Press, 2019.

Ruby Solly: ‘Six feet for a single, eight feet for a double’ was published in Sport 47 (Guest ed. Tayi Tibble), Victoria University Press, 2019.

Tayi Tibble: ‘Tohunga’ was published on Literary Hub, 18 September 2019.

Ashleigh Young: ‘Ghost Bear’ was published in How I Get Ready, Victoria University Press, 2019.