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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021

by Tracey Slaughter

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Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. The packed issue #55 features 180 new poems - including by this year's featured poet, Aimee-Jane Anderson-O'Connor and by John Allison, Stephanie Christie, Michele Leggott, Wes Lee, Elizabeth Morton, David Eggleton, Bob Orr and Kiri Piahana-Wong - and essays and extensive reviews of new poetry collections. Poems by the winners of both the Poetry New Zealand Award and the Poetry New Zealand Schools Award are among the line-up.

About the Author

Dr Tracey Slaughter is a poet and short story writer. Her first collection of poems and short stories, her body rises, was published by Random House (2005), and her novella, The Longest Drink in Town by Pania Press (2015). She has been widely anthologised and has received numerous awards, including the international Bridport Prize (2014), and BNZ Katherine Mansfield Awards in 2004 and 2001. Her short story collection, deleted scenes for lovers, was published by Victoria University Press in 2016, and was acclaimed as "note-perfect" (Spinoff) and "intoxicating ... self-assured, forceful" (Listener). In 2014 she established the literary journal Mayhem. She lives in Cambridge with her partner and

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