Alison Glenny’s collection Slanted has made the longlist for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry in the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards.
This follows a similar longlisting for her previous collection Bird Collector in the 2022 awards.
Poetry czar Nick Ascroft announces by royal decree the 10 best poetry collections of the year.
Hana Pera Aoake’s book A bathful of kawakawa and hot water featured the work of Samoan-New Zealand typographer Joseph Churchward, whose work is also featured in the new Yorgos Lanthimos film Bugonia.
Hera Lindsay Bird features selections from Some helpful models of grief by Hana Pera Aoake as part of The Friday Poem series.
The Aotearoa New Zealand launch of The Tranquility of Solitude takes place at Auckland’s premier art book retailer Lamplight Books, 6pm Thursday 31 July, with the artist in attendance to sign books.
