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The Best New Zealand Poems is published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters,
and aims to introduce readers—especially internationally—to leading
contemporary New Zealand poets. The poems are chosen to show the
vitality and range of current writing. We have shamelessly modelled
this online project on the successful US paperback anthology, The Best American Poetry.
Each year we publish 25 poems from recent literary magazines and poetry
collections, where possible including notes about and by the poet, as
well as links to related publishing and literary websites. In this way
we hope that readers will be able to follow up fresh discoveries. There
are plenty to be made.
The editorship of Best New Zealand Poems changes annually. This year’s editor is the poet James Brown. Earlier editors were Paula Green (2007), Anne Kennedy and Robert Sullivan (2006), Andrew Johnston (2005), Emma Neale (2004), Robin Dudding (2003), Elizabeth Smither (2002) and Iain Sharp (2001). The 2009 editor will be Robyn Marsack, director of the Scottish Poetry Library and co-editor of the newly published anthology Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets (Carcanet, March 2009).
Bill Manhire
International Institute of Modern Letters
Wellington, New Zealand
March, 2009
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