About this ebook
Discover the vibrant voices reshaping contemporary Pacific and New Zealand verse in this essential guide to modern poetic form, community, and cultural expression.
Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa brings together critical essays, selected poems, and poet statements to explore an energetic generation of writers. Edited by Anna Jackson, Dougal McNeill, and Robert Sullivan, this volume presents close readings of ten distinctive voices, including Tayi Tibble, Chris Tse, Ruby Solly, and Claudia Jardine.
Readers explore how emerging creators engage with ancestral traditions, digital culture, and contemporary politics through diverse forms. This collection provides:
- In-depth critical essays analysing individual poems, visual poetics, and small-press culture
- Representative selections of work paired with personal statements on craft from each poet
- Insight into indigenous Māori, Pasifika, queer, and transcultural artistic movements
- Valuable context for students, scholars, teachers, and poetry lovers alike
Whether researching contemporary literature or seeking new perspectives in Pacific arts, this collection offers a rich entry into how poetry lives and breathes today.
Discover the vibrant voices reshaping contemporary Pacific and New Zealand verse in this essential guide to modern poetic form, community, and cultural expression.
Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa brings together critical essays, selected poems, and poet statements to explore an e...
About the author
Robert Sullivan (Ngapuhi, Kai Tahu) is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Hopurangi—Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka (Auckland University Press, 2024), as well as a graphic novel and an award-winning book of Maori legends for children. He has also co-edited anthologies of Maori and Polynesian poetry. He is associate professor of creative writing at Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa – Massey University and has taught previously at Manukau Institute of Technology and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Anna Jackson is the author of seven collections of poetry as well as Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers' Diaries 1915–1962 (Routledge, 2010) and Actions & Travels: How Poetry Works (Auckland University Press, 2022). She lives in Island Bay, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and is associate professor in English literature at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Dougal McNeill teaches in the Literary and Creative Communication programme at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, and is active in the Tertiary Education Union. He is co-author, with Charles Ferrall, of Writing the 1926 General Strike: Literature, Culture, Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2015), editor of Harry Holland's Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist (Steele Roberts, 2016) and, most recently, author of Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Fiction (Otago University Press, 2024).
Robert Sullivan (Ngapuhi, Kai Tahu) is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Hopurangi—Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka (Auckland University Press, 2024), as well as a graphic novel and an award-winning book of Maori legends for children. He has also co-edited anthologies of Mao...
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