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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]
William Manhire CNZM (born 27 December 1946) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, emeritus professor, and New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate (1997–1998). He founded New Zealand's first creative writing course at Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, founded the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2001, and has been a strong promoter of New Zealand literature and poetry ...
Best New Zealand Poems (in cooperation with the International Institute of Modern Letters) Tidal Pools, to make available texts on Pacific islands history, language, culture and politics (in cooperation with Va'aomanu Pasifika, the Pacific Studies unit) Design Review, a Wellington architecture and design magazine from the late 1940s and early 1950s
Janet Mary Riemenschneider-Kemp MNZM (born 12 March 1949) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, memoirist and public performer of her work. Her writing career began in the late 1960s and early 1970s and has continued into the 21st century, with a number of published collections; her poems often focus on personal and intimate subjects.
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 ...
Made for Weather: Poems by Kay McKenzie Cooke (2007, Otago University Press) Born to a Red-Headed Woman (2014, Otago University Press) "Upturned" (2020, The Cuba Press) Cooke has been published in the 2020 & 2014 Best New Zealand Poems series and her work was praised in the 2007 edition.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... New Zealand poetry awards (1 C, 9 P) H. Haka (6 P) P. ... Best New Zealand Poems; K. Ka Mate; L. Lifeblood: A Book of Poems ...
In 2000 she came third in the New Zealand Poetry Society's International Poetry Competition for her poem "Observations Made in Passing", [10] [11] and in 2008 was highly commended in an annual poetry competition run by the journal Bravado. [12] Her 2011 collection Trace Fossils was runner-up for the Kathleen Grattan Award. [2]