Author(s): Tracey Slaughter (ed.)

Poetry

Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. This issue, #55, features 182 poems by 129 poets, including Elizabeth Morton, Michele Leggott, essa may ranapiri, Bob Orr, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Jordan Hamel, David Eggleton and Mere Taito, the winning entries in the Poetry New Zealand Prize, essays, and reviews of 25 new poetry books. Compiled in a time of pandemic, these are poems written -- in the words of editor Tracey Slaughter -- when 'the only line to follow was deeper in, darker down, to poetry. The page was the only safe place our breath could go.'

Contents

EDITORIAL
Tracey Slaughter  

FEATURED POET
Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor

NEW POEMS by
John Allison, Stu Bagby, Rebecca Ball, Tony Beyer, Nikki-Lee Birdsey, Rosemary Blake, Cindy Botha, Iain Britton, Fritz Buijn, Owen Bullock, Ellen Morgan Butler, Paolo Caccioppoli, Chris Cantillon, Brent Cantwell, Marisa Cappetta, Janet Charman, Stephanie Christie, Cadence Chung, Harold Coutts, Jeni Curtis, Brecon Dobbie, Leah Dodd, Doc Drumheller, Katea Duff, David Eggleton, Rachael Elliott, Johanna Emeney, Andrea Ewing, Rachel J. Fenton, Nida Fiazi, Jan FitzGerald, Yaning Ma Foreman, Alexandra Fraser, Janis Freegard, Maryana Garcia, Miriama Gemmell, Michael Giacon, Eliana Gray, Jordan Hamel, Marijke Hanegraaf, Ruth Hanover, Matthew Harris, Paula Harris, Rebecca Hawkes, Edna Heled, Janna Heller, Zarina Hewlett, Liam Hinton, Chris Holdaway, Lily Holloway, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Alice Hooton, Amanda Hunt, Hayden Hyams, Gail Ingram, Adrienne Jansen, Lincoln Jaques, Eefa Jauhary, Pippi Jean, Hebe Kearney, Erik Kennedy, Megan Kitching, Leonard Lambert, Isabella Lane, Gary Langford, Gabi Lardies, Jessica Le Bas, Wes Lee, Michele Leggott, Schaeffer Lemalu, Frances Libeau, Olivia Macassey, Sophie MacDonald, Ria Masae, Melody May, Lisa McKenzie, Frankie McMillan, Robynanne Milford, Alice Miller, Darcy Monteath, Layal Moore, Josiah Morgan, Michael Morrissey, Elizabeth Morton, Stephen Oliver, Ellis Ophele, Bob Orr, Alistair Paterson, I. K. Paterson, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Mark Pirie, Mark Prisco, Hayden Pyke, essa may ranapiri, Vaughan Rapatahana, Gillian Roach, Jeremy Roberts, Phoebe Robertson, Jennifer Rockwell, Brittany Rose, Jack Ross, Dadon Rowell, Lisa Samuels, Tim Saunders, Kerrin P. Sharpe, Charlotte Simmonds, Jane Simpson, Hugo Sissons, Barry Smith, Hugh Smith, Ruby Solly, Michael Steven, Chris Stewart, Mere Taito, Jasmine O. M. Taylor, Catherine Trundle, Rhegan Tu‘akoi, Iain Twiddy, Richard von Sturmer, Janet Wainscott, Toyah Webb, Pat White, Sophia Wilson, Tim Wilson, Katie Winny, Iona Winter, Sebastien Woolf, Karen Zelas 

ESSAYS by 
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Ruth Russ 

REVIEWS of books by 
John Allison, Jane Arthur, Nick Ascroft, Amy Brown, Diane Brown, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Lynley Edmeades, Hinemoana Baker, Gail Ingram, Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod, Wes Lee, Michele Leggott, Mary Macpherson, Vana Manasiadis, Natalie Morrison, Elizabeth Morton, Emma Neale, Heidi North, Michael Fitzsimons, Stephen Oliver, Vaughan Rapatahana, Michael Steven, Denys Trussell