Best New Zealand Poems 2007

Best New Zealand Poems is published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters, and aims to introduce readers to leading contemporary New Zealand poets.

Best New Zealand Poems is an online anthology of the finest poetry by New Zealand writers in the preceding year and is published annually by the International Institute of Modern Letters, based at Victoria University.

This year’s editor, poet Paula Green, says the task of selecting 25 poems in a year “rich in good poems” was difficult.

Each year 25 poems from recent literary magazines and poetry collections are published, where possible including notes about and by the poet, as well as links to related publishing and literary websites.

The 2007 list includes works by:
Johanna Aitchison, Angela Andrews, Serie Barford, Sarah Jane Barnett, Jenny Bornholdt, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Janet Charman, Geoff Cochrane, Fiona Farrell, Cliff Fell, Bernadette Hall, Anna Jackson, Andrew Johnston, Anne Kennedy, Jessica Le Bas, Dora Malech, Alice Miller, Emma Neale, Vincent O’Sullivan, Vivienne Plumb, Richard Reeve, Elizabeth Smither, CK Stead and Robert Sullivan.

Best New Zealand Poems is supported by a grant from Creative New Zealand which goes entirely to the contributors and editor.

The poems can be viewed online at: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/bestnzpoems.