Extra Focus: RECENT AOTEAROA POETRY (for National Poetry day)

Friday 22 August is Aotearoa’s National Poetry Day, the day to consider how to get more poetry into our lives (our lives will be better for it!).
The books pictured are just a sampling of our stock of recent Aotearoa poetry.

Makeshift Seasons by Kate Camp

over under fed by Amy Marguerite

/ slanted by Alison Glenny

Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit by Emma Neale (Ockham winner)

Black Sugarcane by Nafanua Purcell Kersel

In the Hollow of the Wave by Nina Mingya Powles

Clay Eaters by Gregory Kan

Hopurangi / Songcatcher by Robert Sullivan (the new Aotearoa Poet Laureate)