121 New Zealand Poems

A journey through the hearts and histories and landscapes of NZ - from the country's earliest poems to work by the new poets of the 21st century.

Bill Manhire - prize-winning poet, editor of several anthologies, lecturer in creative writing at Victoria University, 2004 Katherine Mansfield Fellow at Menton - chooses the top 121 NZ Poems (but includes only one poem by any poet).
The historical ordering by subject matter gives a sense of New Zealand as a place which grows and changes over the years.
The first edition was published in 1993, reprinted twice in 1994 and again later in the decade, now unavailable for five years.
There is plenty of fine new work from new poets over the past 10 year to sustain an expanded edition: Glen Colquhoun, Kate Camp, Anna Jackson, Anne Kennedy, Emma Neale, James Brown, Chris Price, Kapka Kassabova and Sonja Yelich.
NZ Poetry has been in a powerful moment of its life over the past few years.