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In 2001, poet and professor Bill Manhire of the International Institute of Modern Letters founded Best New Zealand Poems. The anthology is published online and features 25 poems from New Zealand poets, each year selected by a different guest editor. Journalist Philip Matthews has described it as "a reliable guide to local poetry". [1]
The intention of the poem is to indicate the passage of time and yet the timelessness of nature. A human lifetime passes, yet the underlying natural life - symbolised by the unchanging backdrop of the magpies' call - remains unchanging. The phrase imitating the call of the Australian magpie is one of the most well-known lines in New Zealand ...
Best New Zealand Poems; K. Ka Mate; L. Lifeblood: A Book of Poems; M. Māori poetry; W. Wellington Group This page was last edited on 26 August 2022, at 21:20 ...
99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry was a finalist in the General Non-Fiction category of the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards. [13]The Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand has recognised several of her children's books, three receiving the Notable Non-Fiction Book title (Flamingo Bendalingo: Poems from the Zoo in 2007, [14] Treasury of NZ Poems for Children in 2015 ...
Cooke has been published in the 2020 & 2014 Best New Zealand Poems series and her work was praised in the 2007 edition. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] She was included in The Second New Zealand Haiku Anthology [ 7 ] and Cordite Poetry Review . [ 8 ]
Her work has appeared in local and international magazines such as The New Zealand Listener, Landfall, Poetry NZ, JAAM, Turbine, [3] The North (UK) and Magma (UK), [2] printed and online anthologies such as Best New Zealand Poems, Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page (Random House, 2014) and Tales for Canterbury, [4] [5] poetry ...
The poem records the arrival of the first Europeans in New Zealand. [7] It is one of the best-known of all New Zealand poems. [8] Tom Weston noted in 1985 that in its early years, "Landfall in Unknown Seas" was "something of a motto": "There was a sense of discovery, of sorting out a place [for New Zealand literature] in this world." [9]
In 2009 he was awarded the Janet Frame Prize for Poetry. [7] [8] [12] In eight out of the twelve years from 2003 to 2014, and in 2019 and 2020, his poems were selected for the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems. [8] [13] [14] [15] His 2007 entry in the anthology, "Chemotherapy", was written about the death of New Zealand author Nigel Cox. [16]