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Bagnall, Catherine + Sayle, L.J. – On We Go (MUP, 2021)

Bascand, Helen – time to sing before the dark (Caxton Press, 2018)

Billot, Victor – The Sets (OUP, 2021)

Blank, Anton (eds) – Ora Nui 4 – Maori Literary Journal (Ora Nui Press, 2021)

Bridge, Diana – Two or More Islands (OUP, 2019)

Camp, Kate – How to Be Happy Though Human (VUP, 2020)

Edmeades, Lynley – Listening In (OUP, 2019)

Eggleton, David – The Wilder Years (Selected Poems) (OUP, 2021)

Harvey, Siobhan – Ghosts (OUP, 2021)

Jansen, Adrienne (ed) – Somewhere a cleaner (Landing Press, 2020)

Kan, Gregory – Under Glass (AUP, 2018)

Keeler, R.J. – Detonation (Resource Publications, 2020)

Kennedy, Anne – The Sea Walks Into a Wall (AUP, 2021)

King, Rob – Waiting for Birds (Makaro Press, 2019)

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

Le Harivel, Kirsten – Shelter (The Cuba Press, 2021)

Lee, Wes – by the lapels (Steele Roberts, 2019)

Leggott, Michele – Mezzaluna: Selected Poems (AUP, 2020)

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

Meredith, Courtney Sina – Burst Kisses on the Actual Wind (Beatnik, 2021)

Miller, Alice – Nowhere Nearer (AUP, 2018)

Morris, Paula + Wong, Alison (eds) – A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP, 2021)

Neale, Emma (Ed) – Landfall 237 (OUP, 2019)

Neale, Emma (Ed) – Landfall 238 (OUP, 2019)

Neale, Emma (Ed) – Landfall 239 (OUP, 2020)

Neale, Emma (Ed) – Landfall 240 (OUP, 2020)

Norcliffe, James – Deadpan (OUP, 2019)

O’Brien, Gregory – Always Song in the Water (AUP, 2019)

Oliver, Stephen – The Song of Globule (Greywacke Press, 2020)

Preston, Joanna + Zelas, Karen (eds) – broken lines / in charcoal (Pūkeko Publications, 2020)

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

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

Prime, Patricia & Beverland Margaret (Eds) – Kokako 30 (April 2019)

Prime, Patricia & Beverland Margaret (Eds) – Kokako 31 (September 2019)

Prime, Patricia & Beverland Margaret (Eds) – Kokako 33 (September 2020)

Prime, Patricia & Beverland Margaret (Eds) – Kokako 34 (April 2021)

Prime, Patricia & Beverland Margaret (Eds) – Kokako 35 (September 2021)

Rapatahana, Vaughan (Ed) – Ngā Kupu Waikato: an anthology of Waikato poetry (Waikato Press, 2019)

Rapatahana, Vaughan – ngā whakamatuatanga / interludes (Cyberwit, Allahabad, India, 2019)

Ricketts, Harry – Winter Eyes (VUP, 2018)

Sharpe, Kerrin P – louder (VUP, 2018)

Slaughter, Tracey (eds) – Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021 (MUP, 2021)

Thomas, Alex – When Times Seem Dark (Self-published, 2021)

Tse, Chris and Barnes, Emma (eds) – Out Here: An anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa (AUP, 2021)

Trower, Jamie – A Sign of Light (The Cuba Press, 2018)

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

Wicks, Amy Leigh – The Dangerous Country of Love and Marriage (AUP, 2019)

Wilson, Edwin – Synthesis (Woodbine Press, 2018)

Older Books

Adcock, Fleur – Hoard (VUP, 2017)

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

Blank, Anton (eds) – Going Global – Maori Literary Journal  (Ora Nui Press, 2017)

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

Brown, James, Floods Another Chamber (VUP, 2017)

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

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

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

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

Dickson, John – Mister Hamilton (AUP, 2016)

Eggleton, David (Ed.) – Landfall 230 (OUP, 2015)

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

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

Howell, John – Homeless (Makaro Press, 2017)

Hunt, Sam – Salt River Songs (potton & burton, 2016)

Innes-Jones, Virginia – Fabulous Faerie Folk (The Bach Doctor Press, 2015)

Marsh, Selina Tusitala – Tightrope (AUP, 2017)

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

Neale, Emma (eds) – Landfall 230 (OUP, 2015)

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

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

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

Prime, Patricia & Beverland Margaret (Eds) – Kokako 26 (April 2017)

Prime, Patricia & Beverland Margaret (Eds) – Kokako 27 (September 2017)

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

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)

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

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

Sudlow, Maureen – Antipodes (Steele Roberts, 2014)

Tamu, Leilani – Cultural Diplomacy (AUP, 2017)

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

Turner, Brian – Night Fishing (VUP, 2016)

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)