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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 ...
Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Akzente, Landfall, Meanjin, Snorkel, Sport, and Turbine. Her work has also been published in the Best New Zealand Poems series (2009, 2011 and 2017) and Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page (2014). [2] Collected works of poems by Wallace include:
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 ...
[4] [2] Also in 1997, her short story 'The Waiting' was a joint winner of the Novice Writers' Award in the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Awards. [4] [3] In 2001 her collection Animals Indoors won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book for Poetry at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. [9]
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 ]
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]