Books available for review
We have a long list of books available for review. If you are interested in writing a review and being published on our website and/or in our magazine, you can read our guidelines for writing a poetry review. Contact Emma Shi at reviews@poetrysociety.org.nz to request a book and for any other reviewing queries.
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Adcock, Fleur – Hoard (VUP, 2017)
Armstrong, Philip – Sinking Lessons (OUP, 2020)
Baker, Hinemoana et al. – Transit of Venus \ Venustransit (VUP, 2016)
Bascand, Helen – time to sing before the dark (Caxton Press, 2018)
Billot, Victor – The Sets (OUP, 2021)
Bridge, Diana – Two or More Islands (OUP, 2019)
Brown, James, Floods Another Chamber (VUP, 2017)
Camp, Kate – How to Be Happy Though Human (VUP, 2020)
Curnow, Allen – Collected Poems, Edited by Elizabeth Caffin & Terry Sturm (AUP, 2017)
Dennerstein, Natasha – about a girl – a novella in verse (Norfolk Press, 2017)
Farrell, Fiona – Nouns, verbs, etc. (Otago University Press, 2020)
Edmeades, Lynley – Listening In (OUP, 2019)
Feeney, Rhys + Masae, Ria + Jardine, Claudia – AUP New Poets 7 (AUP, 2020)
Fiebig, Jess – My Honest Poem (AUP, 2020)
Gallagher, Rhian – Far-Flung (AUP, 2020)
Howell, John – Homeless (Makaro Press, 2017)
Jansen, Adrienne (ed) – Somewhere a cleaner (Landing Press, 2020)
Keeler, R.J. – Detonation (Resource Publications, 2020)
King, Rob – Waiting for Birds (Makaro Press, 2019)
Koirala, Saradha – photos of the sky (The Cuba Press, 2018)
Lee, Wes – by the lapels (Steele Roberts, 2019)
Leggott, Michele – Vanishing Points (AUP, 2017)
Leggott, Michele – Mezzaluna: Selected Poems (AUP, 2020)
Lloyd, Therese – The Facts (VUP 2018)
Marsh, Selina Tusitala – Tightrope (AUP, 2017)
McCallum, Mary – XYZ of Happiness (Makaro Press, 2018)
Miller, Alice – Nowhere Nearer (AUP, 2018)
Nahill, Art – Murmurations (Two Hemispheres Poetry, 2017)
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)
Oranui 3 – Going Global – Maori Literary Journal (Ora Nui Press, 2017)
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 32 (April 2020)
Prime, Patricia & Beverland Margaret (Eds) – Kokako 33 (September 2020)
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)
Tamu, Leilani – Cultural Diplomacy (AUP, 2017)
Tobin, Rachel – Say it naked (submarine, 2018)
Trower, Jamie – A sign of light (The Cuba Press, 2018)Wakan, Naomi Beth – Poetry That Heals (Shanti Arts Publishing, 2018)
Webb-Pullman, Mercedes – Track Tales (Truth Serum Press, 2017)
Wicks, Amy Leigh – The Dangerous Country of Love and Marriage (AUP, 2019)
Wilson, Edwin – Synthesis (Woodbine Press, 2018)
Older Books
Avia, Tusiata – Fale Aitu | Spirit House (VUP, 2016)
Blank, Marino – crimson (Anton Blank Ltd, 2014)
Bullock, Owen – urban haiku (Recent Work Press, 2015)
Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki – The Collected Poems (VUP, 2016)
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)
Harlow, Michael – Nothing for it but to Sing (Otago University Press, 2016)
Hunt, Sam – Salt River Songs (potton & burton, 2016)
Innes-Jones, Virginia – Fabulous Faerie Folk (The Bach Doctor Press, 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 – Charles Brasch Selected Poems (OUP, 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)
Teclici, Valentina, Translator & Editor – Poetical Bridges / Poduri Lirice (Scripta manent Publishing House, 2016)
Thomson, Mary-Jane – Lonely Earth (HeadworX, 2015)
Turner, Brian – Night Fishing (VUP, 2016)
Wedde, Ian – Selected Poems (Auckland University Press, 2017)
Williamson, Nicholas – The Blue Outboard (Black Doris Press, 2016)