Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets: An Anthology

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Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets showcases the freshness and vitality of current New Zealand poetry. Starting in 1986, it captures turning points in the work of Allen Curnow and Bill Manhire, and charts the wave of major poets who started publishing in the late 1980s, like Jenny Bornholdt and Bernadette Hall. Younger writers such as Glenn Colquhoun, Robert Sullivan and Tusiata Avia explore new ways of making art out of the bracing challenge of living in a bicultural and multicultural society. An introduction by the editors and reflections by the poets themselves illuminate themes and contexts. A joint publication with the leading British poetry publisher Carcanet, this anthology forms an indispensable map of New Zealand poetry for readers at home and abroad.

Andrew Johnston is a New Zealand poet who lives in Paris with his wife and two sons. He won the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for poetry for his first book, How to Talk; his most recent collection, Sol, was published in New Zealand in 2007 by Victoria University Press and in Britain in 2008 by Arc Publications. Robyn Marsack was born and grew up in Wellington, New Zealand, and lives in Glasgow with her family. She gained degrees from Victoria University in New Zealand and Oxford University, then worked as a publishers' editor until taking up the post of Director of the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh in 2000.