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Bill Manhire is writer, professor and New Zealand's first inaugural poet laureate. He was also, until recently, the director...

By Madeleine Watts

Lydia Wevers is a literary critic, editor and book reviewer. She is the director of the Stout Research Centre...

By Madeleine Watts

Ashleigh Young is a writer and editor of essays and poetry currently living in London. Her first book of...

By Madeleine Watts

A Clear DawnLi PoThe bush is cool, the light showers have stopped – a panorama of Spring.The clear...

By Ya-Wen Ho

1. The Violinist in SpringIt is not the blue notes, but the blue touch paper. It is not the...

By James Brown

Selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2014I ki paki waitara rā I repa aitia Tunaroa Nā Māui, ka...

By Cliff Fell

Two poets on a headland, mid-survey might pause suddenly and say will this be your whale, or mine? Moving, accordingly,...

Selected for Best New Zealand Poems 201420131.Here we are a skinny country in the largest ocean on earth spell-bound,...

By Dinah Hawken

In the deep south, the winter light is clear as beauty. There are no half measures – it stares...

By James Brown

''So why's he dead?', the reasonable and polite enough query as children witness from the distance, the body moved...

A cloud river above the Hurunuiand on the plane there are two Māori bros –one sitting with me until...

By Cliff Fell

The Mountain I am here beside my brother, Terror.I am the place of human error. I am beauty and cloud, and...

By Bill Manhire

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