Edited by Anne Kennedy
Auckland University Press (2024)
Each new release from the AUP New Poets series, which showcases new voices in contemporary poetry, is a must read and has been an introduction for many of us to poets that have gone on to define Aotearoa’s modern literary scene, including Rebecca Hawkes, Sonja Yelich, Claudia Jardine, and the current Poet Laureate, Chris Tse.
In this edition, the tenth, Tessa Keenan (Te Ātiawa), romesh dissanayake and Sadie Lawrence take on history, neurodiversity, gender, indigeneity and love, in what editor Anne Kennedy rightly calls “urgent work that allows us to perceive the contemporary world in ways we would not have otherwise.”
LAURA WILLIAMSON
