Te Whariki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa

In journals and pubs, on TikTok and the bestsellerlists, the current generation of New Zealand poets is finding new voices, newplatforms and new readers. It is a poetry of now: of emojis and hashtags, ofbodies and flesh, of identity and aspiration. How to takethe measure of this new rush of poetic energy, invention and disruption? Whatnew aesthetics emerge alongside these new voices? How might old forms and oldquestions take the pulse of the new? Te Whariki provides a first readingof this exciting moment by weaving together the work of ten contemporary poets fromAotearoa with new critical writing that makes sense of these poets and theirpoems. Pulling these strands together in one volume, TeWhariki is as dynamic, various and engaging as New Zealand poetry is today. Featuring poets Sam Duckor-Jones, Tayi Tibble,Claudia Jardine, essa may ranapiri, Rebecca Hawkes, Chris Tse, Oscar Upperton,Joanna Cho, Ruby Solly and Nafanua Purcell Kersel, with new critical writing byAmy Marguerite, Tru Paraha, Anna Jackson, Robert Sullivan, Mark Masterson,Stephanie Burt, Dani Yourukova, Dougal McNeill, Sophie van Waardenberg, BrigidQuirke, Robin Peters and David Eggleton.

Pages: 204, Paperback, Auckland University Press