Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023

FRONT COVER:

Cover design by Jo Bailey /
Typesetting by Megan van Staden



Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023:
afterburn

Editor: Tracey Slaughter

ISBN 978-1-99-101635-5. 344 pp.

Auckland: Massey University Press, March 2023


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Tracey Slaughter

EDITORIAL:

— Tracey Slaughter

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ABOUT POETRY NEW ZEALAND:

Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, founded by Louis Johnson in 1951 as the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook, is New Zealand’s longest-running poetry magazine. It has been edited by some of New Zealand’s most distinguished poets and academics, including Elizabeth Caffin, Grant Duncan, Riemke Ensing, Bernard Gadd, Leonard Lambert, Harry Ricketts, Elizabeth Smither, Brian Turner, Alistair Paterson, Jack Ross and Johanna Emeney. It is now edited by Dr Tracey Slaughter of the University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. The university's financial support of the Yearbook is much appreciated.

Managing editor
Tracey Slaughter
editor@poetrynz.net
Website: www.poetrynz.net

Submissions: The submission dates for each issue are between 1 May and 31 July of each year. Email submissions are preferred. Email submissions and a covering letter should go to editor@poetrynz.net. Please paste your poems in the body of the message or include them as a single MS Word file attachment.

Submissions by post and a covering letter should be sent to: Dr Tracey Slaughter, English Programme, School of Arts, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240. Posted submissions will not be returned.

Please include a short biography and your current postal address with your submission. Contributors whose poems are selected will receive a free copy of the issue their work is included in.

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