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Send news of your publication to the National Coordinator at info@poetrysociety.org.nz The Editor receives more books for review than there is either space or budget for in the NZPS publication a fine line. NZPS members have priority for promotion.
All reviews relate to the NZPS bimonthly magazine, a fine line. Books marked with * are available for review by NZPS members.
Johanna Aitchison - a long girl ago (VUP) draws on ten years' experience and writing, including Johanna's time spent teaching English in Japan. Reviewed January 2008. ISBN 976-0-86473-569-0
Angela Andrews - echolocation ( VUP). The first collection from a graduate of the IIML MA in Creative Writing, 2005.Reviewed November 2008. ISBN 978-0-86473-563-8
*aup new poets 3 (AUP) is a joint collection by Janis Freegard, Katherine Liddy and Reihana Robinson.
Stu Bagby (Ed) - A Good Handful - Great New Zealand Poems About Sex (AUP). Continuing the current fad for themed anthologies, Stu, the 2001 winner of our Poetry Competition, has put together an eclectic mix of poems (and poets) on the oldest of all subjects. Includes contributions from NZPS members: Cliff Fell, Michael Harlow, Fiona Kidman, Emma Neale, Vincent O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Smither, and Stu himself. Reviewed September 2008. ISBN 978 1 86940 403 1.
*David Beach - The End of Atlantic City (VUP). David's new collection, hard on the heels of his receipt of the Prize in Modern Letters.
Best New Zealand Poems 2007 is online at: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/bestnzpoems NZPS membership is represented by poems by: Johanna Aitchison, Angela Andrews, Emma Neale and Vincent O'Sullivan, along with the usual luminaries of Jenny Bornholdt, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Janet Charman, Geoff Cochrane, Fiona Farrell, Bernadette Hall, Anna Jackson, Andrew Johnston, Anne Kennedy, C.K. Stead, Robert Sullivan and others. Best New Zealand Poems has been published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters since 2001. It aims to introduce readers (especially internationally) to leading contemporary New Zealand poets and to showcase the vitality and range of current writing.
Tony Beyer - Dream Boat (HeadworX) is the latest offering (after 13 previous collections) from this year's NZPS International Poetry Competition Open Section judge. Reviewed May 2008. ISBN 978-0-473-12652-0.
Claire Beynon's - Open Book is a seamless combination of poetry and images - produced in a format akin to the tradition of Artists' Books. Reviewed May 2008. ISBN 978-1-877448-15-7.
Jenny Bornholdt - The Rocky Shore, her latest collection, containing 6 long autobiographical poems.
*Amy Brown - The Propaganda Poster Girl
ed. Owen Bullock & Patricia Prime - Kokako 9. This issue of this unique publication contains the details of the 2nd Kokako International Tanka Competition and includes contributions by Margaret Beverland, Nola Borrell, Karen Peterson Butterworth, Kirsten Cliff, Eric Dodson, Robin Fry, John Irvine, Catherine Mair, John O'Connor, Patricia Prime, Joanna Preston, Elaine Riddell, Sandra Simpson, Barry L. Smith, Barbara Strang, André Surridge, and Helen Yong.
*Alistair Te Ariki Campbell and Meg Campbell - It's Love, Isn't It? (HeadworX). Alistair's fulfillment of Meg's wish to publish their poems together. His and Hers love poems on facing pages make this a striking and beautiful observance of close to half a century spent together.
Meg Campbell - Poems Adrift. Meg's last book of poems, launched the day after her death in November 2007. Reviewed November 2008. ISBN 978-0-9597765-0-8
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell - Just Poetry - Reviewed January 2008. ISBN: 978-0-473-12489-2 Alistair is a past Patron of the NZPS.
Jill Chan - Becoming Someone Who Isn't - reviewed March 2008. ISBN 1-86942-085-3
Janet Charman - cold snack.- Reviewed January 2008. ISBN 978-1-869-40380-5 Winner of the 2008 Montana Book Award for best book of Poetry.
Deep South, the University of Otago's on-line literary journal, is available at http://www.otago.ac.nz/deepsouth/ or Deep South University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin..
Eclecticism, the on-line magazine, is at http://www.eclecticzine.com/ Eclecticism celebrated its first anniversary in July 2008 with the release of its 5th issue. Visit the website now at: http://www.eclecticzine.com to see the work of 8 writers and 3 artists over 43 pages. Once more, there is work by Keith Nunes.
*Cliff Fell - Beauty of the Badlands
Paula Green - Making Lists For Frances Hodgkins - Reviewed September 2008. ISBN 978 1 86940 402 4
the infinity we swim in - ed. Joanna Preston. The 2007 Anthology of The New Zealand Poetry Society. ISBN 978-0-473-12736-7
JAAM 26, edited by NZPS Committee Member, Tim Jones features, among others, Eric Dodson, Janis Freegard, Robin Fry, Laurice Gilbert, David Gregory, Anne Harré, Helen Lowe, Harvey Molloy, John O'Connor, Sugu Pillay, Kerry Popplewell, Jenny Powell, Sue Reidy, Barbara Strang, Jo Thorpe, and Keith Westwater.
Tim Jones - All Blacks' Kitchen Gardens Reviewed March 2008 ISBN 978-0-473-12490-8
ka mate ka ora #5 - The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) is presents the fifth issue of Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics, containing: Peter Simpson on the Kendrick Smithyman-Graham Perkins Archive 1942-45; Kendrick Smithyman's ‘Poems Written in War Time 1942-45'; Kendrick Smithyman's letters to Graham Perkins; Fredrika Van Elburg on Ron Silliman; Ian Wedde on Charles Spear; Anna Smaill on recent London poetry; Murray Edmond goes to the Huang Shan Poetry Festival in China; Niel Wright farewells Dennis List; Russell Haley finds Alan Brunton's Asian MSS. kmko is edited by Murray Edmond, with Assistant Editors Michele Leggott and Hilary Chung at the University of Auckland with assistance from a team of consulting and contributing editors.
Scott Kendrick - Cold Comfort, Cold Concrete: Poems & Satires. Here's a cool idea - open one side of this book and read poetry; turn it over and open the other side for satires originally published in the underground newspaper The Babylon Express. From Seraph Press, the publishing imprint of Helen Rickerby. Reviewed January 2008 ISBN 0-473-11286-8
ed. Harvey McQueen - the earth's deep breathing; garden poems by new zealand poets. This book is absolutely gorgeous, with poems contributed by a considerable number of present and past members of the NZ Poetry Society, as well as other favourites from the NZ poetry scene. The title of the anthology is from Jan Hutchison's poem, In a Town Garden, and the illustrations are from the doyenne of garden photography, Gil Hanly. ISBN 978-1-86962-138-4
James McNaughton - I Want More Sugar (Steele Roberts). Reviwed November 2008. ISBN 978-1-877448-26-3
Chris Orsman - the lakes of mars (Auckland University Press)
*Our Favourite Poems - New Zealanders choose their best-loved poems (Craig Potton). A collection of the top 100 poems chosen by the public through a Sunday Star-Times promotion.
John O'Connor - Parts of the moon - Selected haiku & senryu 1988-2007 Reviewed March 2008. ISBN 978-1-921214-22-6
*Mark Pirie - The Search (HeadworX) Some of Mark's early works, and new Wellington poems.
The Polar Bear Ward is the seventh anthology in the Re-Draft series, produced by the Christchurch School for Young Writers. It has a comprehensive collection of young people's work, both poetry and prose, and includes works by NZPS members Charlotte Trevella, Mary Dennis (who wrote the title poem) and Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle. With selections made by the NZPS Vice-President, James Norcliffe, and co-editor Tessa Duder you just know these are going to be among the best works from young people currently writing and honing their skills. Reviewed July 2008. ISBN 978-0-9582888-1-1 Obtainable from the School for Young Writers. or Clerestory Press, PO Box 2120, ChCh.
Jack Ross and Jan Kemp, Editors - New New Zealand Poets in Performance. Book & CD. Presenting young and mid-career poets from the 1980s to the early 2000s, including Emma Neale.
Richard Reeve - In Continents (AUP)
L E Scott Speaking in Tongues More of Scott's exquisitely formed tiny poems, as well as longer works (HeadworX) Reviewed July 2008. ISBN 978-0-473-12653-7
*Charlotte Simmonds - The World's Fastest Flower.
Elizabeth Smyth - A New Zealand Fable is a CD of Elizabeth's poetry, combined with haunting original music by composer Eric Biddington. Available from 7A Pawako Place, Heathcote, Christchurch 8022, for $20.Reviewed November 2008.
Jeanette Stace - Green Tea. This lovely book has been published posthumously by a team consisting of Jeanette's literary executor, Jane Shallcrass, and her family. It contains a great many of her haiku, for which Jeanette was well known, plus a handful of pages of tanka, and a rich and eclectic selection of her verse. There is a bonus section at the end, of Jeanette's 'Last Words'. The book is available at Unity Books, or for $27 (incl.p&p) from Hilary Stace, 58 Cecil Rd, Wadestown, Wellington 6012, or email: stacefamily@actrix.co.nz
Rae Varcoe - Tributary (VUP) A collection from an Auckland doctor/poet, who completed her MA in Creative Writing at the IIML in 1997. Reviewed May 2008. ISBN 9780 86473 5645.
the taste of nashi, ed. Nola Borrell and Karen Peterson Butterworth, was launched on 19 April 2008. You can order your copy at http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/files/windrift%20haiku%20anthology%20order%20form.pdf
tiny gaps - ed. Margaret Vos. The 2006 anthology of the New Zealand Poetry Society. ISBN 978-0-473-11520-3
Turbine 2007 contains poems from Johanna Aitchison, Michele Amas, Andy Armitage, Hinemoana Baker, Jenny Bornholdt, Amy Brown, Medb Charleton, Mary Cresswell, Lynn Davidson, Emily Dobson, Jane Gardner, David Geary, Mariana Isara, Anna Jackson, SK Johnson, Andrew Johnston, Anne Kennedy, Brent Kininmont, Saradha Koirala, Therese Lloyd, Dora Malech, Kelly Malone, Sam Reed, Erin Scudder, Kerin P Sharpe, Elizabeth Smither, Louise Wareham Leonard, Alison Wong, Sue Wootton and Ashleigh Young
Sue Wootton - Magnetic South (Steele Roberts) Sue's second collection, sure to please. Reviewed July 2008. ISBN 978-1-877448-23-2.
Peter Wyton - Not all men are from Mars is a collection of poems produced in support of 'Women's Aid', one of three charities which provides sheltered accommodation throughout the U.K. for women and children made homeless by domestic violence. Though not a New Zealand poet, Wyton is a well-known performance poet in the UK and a regular entrant in our international poetry competition. The book retails at £7:99 per copy, £5 of which goes to 'Women's Aid'. Some of the 55 poems in the book touch on the problems which Women's Aid seeks to address; the majority are simply about women from a wide variety of backgrounds. For ordering information, email Linda Fisher, at domi.no@blueyonder.co.uk
You can see examples of poems from the book at: http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/notallmenarefrommars
And if you think this is a great idea, please send a donation to NZ Women's Refuges at http://www.womensrefuge.org.nz/index.cfm?objectid=0CFAF4E1-1321-AE99-698D13D5BCB16DAA
* Please contact the National Coordinator if you would like to review any marked publication for the Society's magazine, a fine line.
