Hana Pera Aoake
(Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi, Tainui/Waikato) Artist, poet, writer, and curator; author of A bathful of kawakawa and hot water (Compound Press, 2020) and Blame it on the rain (No More Poetry, 2025). Hana lives in Kawerau in the shadow of Pūtauaki maunga, and is a PhD candidate at Auckland University of Technology.
A bathful of kawakawa and hot water (2020)
Some helpful models of grief (2025)
Murray Edmond
Poet, playwright, editor, critic, and dramaturge. His poetry collections Letters And Paragraphs (Caxton Press, 1987), Fool Moon (AUP, 2004), and Shaggy Magpie Songs (AUP, 2015) were finalists for the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. He has worked extensively in theatre as a writer, actor, director and dramaturge, notably for 20 years with Indian Ink’s Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis on the creation of all that company’s scripts.
Back Before You Know (2019)
FARCE (2022)
Craig Foltz
A writer and visual artist whose work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies and galleries. He has previously released two books on Ugly Duckling Presse. He currently lives and works in New Plymouth, pinched between the wild and remote west coast and Mt Taranaki. More info at craigfoltz.com
LOCALS ONLY: An Outsider’s Insider Perspective on Aotearoa (2020)
Petroglyphs (2024)
Jasmine Gallagher
Poet, essayist, and art critic. Jasmine lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch, and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Otago, where she is researching landscape mythology in contemporary New Zealand art and poetry.
Dirge Bucolic (2022)
Alison Glenny
Poet and artist based on the Kāpiti Coast. Her Antarctic-themed collection of prose poems and fragments, The Farewell Tourist, won the Kathleen Gratton Award for Poetry and was published by Otago University Press in 2018. In 2019 she was an Ursula Bethell writer in residence at the University of Canterbury.
Bird Collector (2021)
Slanted (2024)
Schaeffer Lemalu
Schaeffer (1983-2021) was a poet and artist from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He published two chapbooks, Sleeptalker (2018) and Sleeptalker 2 (2020), and exhibited paintings at Robert Heald Gallery.
David Merritt
Street level poet who makes poetry publications from recycled Reader's Digest condensed book covers and banana box cardboard, often in public places, on a footpath bench seat or from the bonnet of his car. Using stamp pad alphabet sets, a stapler, glue sticks, a photocopier and a copy left intellectual property model, Landroverfarm Press has published over 100s of distinct titles from unique single page A3 publications to collections and boxsets.
Crisis & Duplication (2017, 2018)
You Sleep Uphill (2022)
Always Becominging
(formerly Jackson/Jay Nieuwland) Poet, editor and publisher from Te Whanganui-a-tara Wellington. Always co-founded the independent publisher We Are Babies (now Tender Press), and the t4t publishing project HuRT Books.
I am a human being (2020)