We have a long list of books available for review, so if you’re interested in writing a review and being published on our website or magazine, email editor@poetrysociety.org.nz to have a book sent to you.

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Adcock, Fleur – Hoard (VUP, 2017)

Avia, Tusiata – Fale Aitu | Spirit House (VUP, 2016)

Bach, Morgan – Some of us eat the seeds (VUP, 2015)

Baker, Hinemoana et al. – Transit of Venus \ Venustransit (VUP, 2016)

Bell, Patricia (Ed.) – fresh ink – a Collection of Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (Cloud Ink Press, 2017)

Brasch, Charles – Selected Poems, chosen by Alan Roddick (Otago University Press, 2015)

Brown, James, Floods Another Chamber (Victoria University Press, 2017)

Bullock, Owen – urban haiku (Recent Work Press, 2015)

Bush, Rachel – Thought Horses (VUP, 2016)

Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki – The Collected Poems (VUP, 2016)

Curnow, Allen – Collected Poems, Edited by Elizabeth Caffin & Terry Sturm (AUP, 2017)

Cresswell, Mary – Fish Stories (Canterbury University Books, 2015)

Davidson, John – Soundings of Hellas (Steele Roberts, 2015)

Dennerstein, Natasha – Anatomize (Norfolk Press, 2015)

Dennerstein, Natasha – about a girl – a novella in verse (Norfolk Press, 2017)

Dickson, John – Mister Hamilton (AUP, 2016)

Easthope, Nicola – Working the tang (The Cuba Press, 2018)

Edmeades, Lynley – As the Verb Tenses (Otago University Press, 2016)

French, Anne – The Blue Voyage (AUP, 2015)

Gunson, Vaughan – Big Love Songs (Self, 2016)

Harlow, Michael – Nothing for it but to Sing (Otago University Press, 2016)

Heath, Helen – Are Friends Electric? (VUP, 2018)

Howell, John – Homeless (Makaro Press 2017)

Hunt, Sam – Salt River Songs (Potton and Burton, 2016)

Jansen, Adrienne – Keel & Drift (Landing Press, 2016)

Johnston, Andrew – Fits & Starts (VUP, 2016)

Koirala, Saradha – photos of the sky (The Cuba Press, 2018)

Lee, Wes – Body, Remember (Eyewear Publishing Ltd 2017)

Leggott, Michele – Vanishing Points (AUP, 2017)

Marsh, Selina Tusitala – Tightrope (AUP, 2017)

Miller, Alice – Nowhere Nearer (AUP, 2018)

McCallum, Mary – XYZ of Happiness (Makaro Press, 2018)

Nahill, Art – Murmurations (Two Hemispheres Poetry, 2017)

Nelson, Bill – Memorandum of Understanding  (VUP, 2016)

Norcliffe, James – Dark Days at the Oxygen Cafe (VUP, 2016)

Oranui 3 – Going Global – Maori Literary Journal  (Ora Nui Press, 2017)

Orchard, Claire – Cold water cure (VUP, 2016)

O’Leary, Michael – Main Trunk Lines – Collected Railway Poems (HeadworX, 2015)

O’Sullivan, Vincent – And so it is  (VUP, 2016)

Peace Robin – a passage of yellow red birds (submarine, 2018)

Price, Chris – Beside Herself (VUP, 2016)

Prime, Patricia & Beverland Margaret (Eds) – Kokako 28 (April 2018)

Prime, Patricia & Beverland Margaret (Eds) – Kokako 29 (September 2018)

Reeve, Richard – Generation Kitchen (OUP, 2015)

Ricketts, Harry – Winter Eyes (VUP, 2018)

Riddell, Ron – dance of blue dragonflies (printablereality, 2016)

Roberts, Jeremy – Cards on the Table (Interactive Press, 2015)

Roddick, Alan – Getting It Right, Poems 1968-2015 (OUP, 2016)

Sharpe, Kerrin P – Rabbit (VUP, 2016)

Sharpe, Kerrin P – louder (VUP, 2018)

Sharplin, Ian – The Jewel in the Sea (Wild Side Publishing, 2018)

Smither, Elizabeth – Night Horse (AUP, 2017)

Southam, Barry – Exits and Entrances (CP Books, 2016)

Stead, CK – That Derrida Whom I Derided Died (AUP, 2018)

Tamu, Leilani – Cultural Diplomacy  (AUP, 2017)

Teclici, Valentina, Translator & Editor – Poetical Bridges / Poduri Lirice (Scripta manent Publishing House, 2016)

Thomson, Mary-Jane – Lonely Earth (HeadworX, 2015)

Tibble, Tayi – Poūkahangatus (VUP, 2018)

Tobin, Rachel – Say it naked (submarine, 2018)

Trower, Jamie – A sign of light (The Cuba Press, 2018)

Turner, Brian – Night Fishing (VUP, 2016)

Wakan, Naomi Beth – Poetry That Heals (Shanti Arts Publishing, 2018)

Wallace, Louise – Bad Things (Victoria University Press, 2017)

Warner, Kirsten – Mitochondrial Eve (Compound Press, 2018)

Webb-Pullman, Mercedes – Track Tales (Truth Serum Press, 2017)

Wedde, Ian – Selected Poems (Auckland University Press, 2017)

Williamson, Nicholas – The Blue Outboard (Black Doris Press, 2016)

Wilson, Annabel – Aspiring Daybook, The diary of Elsie Winslow (Makaro Press, 2018)

Wilson, Edwin – Synthesis (Woodbine Press, 2018)

Wootton, Sue – The Yield (Otago University Press, 2017)

Older Books

Adcock, Fleur – The Land Ballot (Victoria University Press, 2014)

Beautrais, Airini – Dear Neil Roberts (VUP, 2014)

Blank, Marino – Crimson (Anton Blank Ltd, 2014)

Denham, Alison – Raspberry Money (Sudden Valley Press, 2013)

Fraser, Alexandra – Conversation by Owl-Light (Steele Roberts, 2014)

Freegard, Janis – The Continuous Adventures of Alice Spider (Anomalous Press, 2013)

Holmes Midgely, Sally – Echo (The Copy Press, 2013)

Nahill, Art – A Long Commute Home (Self, 2014)

O’Connor, John – whistling in the dark (HeadworX, 2014)

Rapatahana, Vaughan & Rogers, Kate & Slack, Madeleine (Eds) – Outloud Too (mccm creations)

Smith, Marty – Horse with Hat (VUP, 2014)

Strang, Andrew – Things to Know (Sudden Valley Press, 2014)

Teclici, Valentina – From Impossible to Possible (Oscar Print Publishing House, 2013)