Poetry

Alice Miller is a young woman who writes poetry, essays and short fiction.

Owen Marshall has written or edited 25 books, including three collections of poetry. He is better known for his short stories and fiction, but he loves to extend himself.

Michele Leggott has published eight collections of poetry.

Michael Harlow lives in Central Otago. He has been practising Jungian therapy for about 20 years, been writing since childhood and published seven collections of poetry.

Ben Brown was awarded the Maori Writer's Residency at the Michael King Writers' Centre for 2011 at Devonport. There he worked on Between the Kindling and the Blaze.

Caoilinn Hughes is a young woman who finds poems in unexpected places and situations.

Leonard Lambert is both a painter and poet.

The nifty publishing press HeadworX has produced a couple of tiny chapbooks.

A. Stanley Sherratt (1891-1977) wrote a powerful early sequence of Maori myths and legends.

Selina Tusitala Marsh's first collection of poems, Fast Talking PI (Auckland University Press, 2009), won the Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry in the 2010 NZ Post Book Awards.

Louise Wallace's new book of poems has a strong sense of sadness and confusion.

Life & Customs is Bernadette Hall's 10th book of poetry.

John O'Connor's poetry has been widely published. His haiku have been internationally anthologised and translated into eight languages. A Particular Context (Sudden Valley Press, 1999) concentrated on the Catholic ghetto of Addington in the 1950s and '60s.

Kiri Piahana-Wong is a young woman whose poem Of books and bookcases appeared in the excellent collection Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems (Godwit, 2012), edited by Paula Green.

Charlotte Trevella is only 20. In 2008 she was selected as one of the top 15 youth poets in the world.

Dunedin-born poet Sarah Broom (1972-2013) recently died of lung cancer, although she never smoked.

Dunedin writer and poet Vincent O'Sullivan has been appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate.

Ian Wedde is New Zealand's Poet Laureate. The Life-Guard: Poems 2008-2013 is to be launched at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival this month. 

It all began for Elizabeth Smither with Here Come the Clouds (Alister Taylor, 1975).

The bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and his fellow polar explorers were found on the Antarctic ice 100 years ago this November. Bill Manhire, together with photographer Anne Noble, composer Norman Meehan and singer Hannah Griffin has produced These Rough Notes (Victoria University Press, hbk).