Ten poets read from the Poetry NZ Yearbook 2021

 

Poetry New Zealand is our longest running poetry magazine – it features essays and reviews, along with substantial room for poems. 

Winners of the Poetry New Zealand Poetry Prize and the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition are included. Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor is the featured poet. To celebrate the arrival of the new issue – with 182 poems by 129 poets.

To listen to 10 of those poets reading their poems click HERE

Best NZ Poems 2020 Goes Live

 

Poet Laureate David Eggleton has edited the latest edition of Best NZ Poems 2020. He concludes his introduction with these words:

I hope you will enjoy reading these poems as much I have on my year-long odyssey for which I didn't have to leave home. I'm glad to have had the privilege of the journey and its discoveries. Discoveries rather than judgements because poems are essentially playful and deeply wilful and a law unto themselves and won't be judged. As the American poet Archibald MacLeish put it in his brilliant formulation about the art of poetry: 'A poem should not mean/ But be.'

Go here for poems, introduction and audios.