Pacific wind blows through Best New Zealand Poems 06
This from the wonderful Newsletter of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria
University of Wellington. If you do not subscribe to their e-mail Newsletter and would like to then contact them at : ModernLettersNews@lists.vuw.ac.nz
The salt tang of the Pacific Ocean is a pervasive presence in this year’s Best New Zealand Poems (http://www.victoria.ac.nz/bestnzpoems), the annual online survey of the liveliest and best poetry published by New Zealand writers in the preceding year, which is launched today the Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University. The work in Best New Zealand Poems 06 has been selected by poets Anne Kennedy and Robert Sullivan, both of whom currently teach at the University of Hawai’i.
From the Cook Strait gales and Manawatu floods of David Eggleton’s ‘The Weather Bomb’ and the ‘dark snout’ of Kapiti Island in Hinemoana Baker’s ‘One’ to Serie Barford’s siapo-makers of Samoa and Karlo Mila’s Tonga in mourning, Best New Zealand Poems 06 is awash in the ocean where the islands swim together. Powerful poems on illness, mortality and ancestors come from C K Stead, Michele Leggott, Jenny Bornholdt, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell and Andrew Johnston. And for the first time the anthology features digital poetry from Richard von Sturmer and Brian Flaherty.
Each writer has supplied a note on their poem that illuminates the circumstances of its composition, making Best New Zealand Poems a superb entry point for readers unfamiliar with the work of particular writers, and a treasure chest of information for students of New Zealand literature.
Best New Zealand Poems 06 is published with the support of Creative New Zealand, and hosted by the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre at Victoria University.
This from the wonderful Newsletter of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria
University of Wellington. If you do not subscribe to their e-mail Newsletter and would like to then contact them at : ModernLettersNews@lists.vuw.ac.nz
The salt tang of the Pacific Ocean is a pervasive presence in this year’s Best New Zealand Poems (http://www.victoria.ac.nz/bestnzpoems), the annual online survey of the liveliest and best poetry published by New Zealand writers in the preceding year, which is launched today the Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University. The work in Best New Zealand Poems 06 has been selected by poets Anne Kennedy and Robert Sullivan, both of whom currently teach at the University of Hawai’i.
From the Cook Strait gales and Manawatu floods of David Eggleton’s ‘The Weather Bomb’ and the ‘dark snout’ of Kapiti Island in Hinemoana Baker’s ‘One’ to Serie Barford’s siapo-makers of Samoa and Karlo Mila’s Tonga in mourning, Best New Zealand Poems 06 is awash in the ocean where the islands swim together. Powerful poems on illness, mortality and ancestors come from C K Stead, Michele Leggott, Jenny Bornholdt, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell and Andrew Johnston. And for the first time the anthology features digital poetry from Richard von Sturmer and Brian Flaherty.
Each writer has supplied a note on their poem that illuminates the circumstances of its composition, making Best New Zealand Poems a superb entry point for readers unfamiliar with the work of particular writers, and a treasure chest of information for students of New Zealand literature.
Best New Zealand Poems 06 is published with the support of Creative New Zealand, and hosted by the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre at Victoria University.
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