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"Relaunched under the editorship of Anna Jackson in 2019, AUP New Poets 6 includes substantial selections from the poetry of Ben Kemp, Vanessa Crofskey and Chris Stewart. We move from Kemp's slow-paced attentive readings of place and people, in a selection moving between Japan and New Zealand, to the velocity of Vanessa Crofskey's fierce, funny, intimate and political poetry, which takes the form of shopping lists, Post-it Notes, graphs, erasures, a passenger arrival card and even *poetry*, and finally to Chris Stewart's visceral take on the domestic, the nights cut to pieces by teething, the gravity of love and the churn of time."--Publisher's website.
About the author
Vanessa Crofskey currently works for
The Pantograph Punch as a staff writer, and as a curator at Window Gallery (University of Auckland).
Anna Jackson made her debut in
AUP New Poets 1 before publishing six collections with Auckland University Press, most recently
I, Clodia (2014).
Ben Kemp works as a primary school teacher in Papua New Guinea, where he has lived for the past three years with his diplomat wife and three children.
Chris Stewart was born in Wellington but grew up in Christchurch. His poems have been published in New Zealand journals such as
Snorkel, Takahe, Sweet Mammalian, and more.
Summary
Post-it notes and shopping lists, Japanese monks and children's lungs: AUP New Poets 6 is a deep dive into the rich diversity of New Zealand poetry today.
