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New Zealand Book Awards Longlist 2025

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.

2025 New Zealand Book Awards Longlist

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