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Poem Friday: Lynley Edmeades’‘Imperial’ Sometimes an object in a poem...
Imperial There goes London with its scattered lights. Like a bag of marbles spilt out onto concrete, they’ve rolled towards fissures, pooled together in conduits. They are the arteries of this...
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Friday Poem: Rachel O’Neill’s ‘Almost exactly the love of my life’ Its knots...
Almost exactly the love of my life On slow days at the office I wrote love letters to myself from the woman who was almost exactly the love of my life. In these letters I, or she – well, ‘we’ –...
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Cliff Fell’s The Good Husbandwoman’s Alphabet This gorgeous sequence holds...
Cliff Fell, The Good Husbandwoman’s Alphabet, Last Leaf Press, Motueka, 2014 Cliff Fell has published two previous poetry collections, The Adulterer’s Bible (Victoria University Press, 2003) and...
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Emily Dobson’s The Lonely Nude — The collection allows the imagination to...
Emily Dobson, The Lonely Nude Victoria University Press, 2014 Emily Dobson’s debut collection, A Box of Bees, gathered much critical praise and was named as one of The New Zealand...
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Friday Poem: Rebecca Palmer’s ‘Dear Grandma’— now I have read the author’s...
Dear Grandma Albino, prune like demoralizing the years of hard work past, B flat serenades chitter chatter through the teeth of an elephant. African plains, vast, moonlit, red eyes glinting – is it...
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Poem Friday: Tusiata Avia’s ‘Wairua Road’— makes the idea of home sharp and...
Wairua Road The Spirits love me so much they sent all the people in Aranui to be my friends or my parents. We all walk the Big Path from Cashmere to the sea. We run like lawnmowers on each others...
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Poem Friday: Hera LIndsay Bird’s ‘Everything Is Wrong’— a voice that hooks...
Everything Is Wrong Everything is wrong, I really mean it Isobel Everything is wrong and love is wrong I know you believe me I know you believe me because I know you know it too This life is...
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Poem Friday: Amber Esau’s ‘Analogue’—
Photo credit: Christina Pataialii Analogue gravel ; shells crunch kiss and leave behind the echo in canon. Road works pinch at the waist and I’ve noticed orange peels that pray like cracked tar...
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Sam Sampson’s Halcyon Ghosts: Breathless and breathtaking
Photo Credit: Harvey Benge Sam Sampson, Halcyon Ghosts, Auckland University Press, 2014 Sam Sampson’s new poetry collection, Halcyon Ghosts, brings together ‘thirteen shapes of knowing.’ It comprises...
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Friday Poem: Sarah Jane Barnett’s ‘Blue Heart’: The poem enacts the mystery...
Photo Credit: Matt Bialostocki Blue Heart Full size model of a Blue Whale heart, Te Papa Museum The boy enters the whale heart. He finds his way. His hands slide down the peachy aorta, his body...
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Poetry Shelf review: Holly Painter’s Excerpts from a Natural History – This...
Excerpts from a Natural History Holly Painter Titus Books 2015 This book is a tonic for me as a reader and a boost in the blood for poetry. I adore it. John Newton’s endorsement on the back...
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Kirsten McDougall kickstarts a great new interview series
This is a great start to Kirsten McDougall’s new interview series on what people do. Kirsten begins with a terrific interview with Ashleigh Young (VUP editor). ‘My job at VUP is the first job I’ve...
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Going West Festival programme now out
This is the first festival with new programme directors. The programme offers the usual eclectic mix of conversations in a great setting with good food. A family festival, in a way. There are...
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New Voices, Emerging Poets Results 2016
Michelle and Iva, winning emerging poets This event, steered by Siobhan Harvey, has become an annual event in Auckland on National Poetry Day. Check out the winning poems by following the link. Both...
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