Te Whariki Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa

by McNeill, Dougal; Sullivan, Robert; Jackson, Anna

• ISBN13: 9781776711314
• ISBN10: 1776711319
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2026-03-09
• Publisher: Auckland University Press
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Summary

Chris Tse to Tayi Tibble – what New Zealand poetry looks like now.

Author Biography

Dougal McNeill teaches in the Literary and Creative Communication programme at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, and is active in the Tertiary Education Union. He is co-author, with Charles Ferrall, of Writing the 1926 General Strike: Literature, Culture, Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2015), editor of Harry Holland’s Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist (Steele Roberts, 2016) and, most recently, author of Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Fiction (Otago University Press, 2024). 

Robert Sullivan (Ngapuhi, Kai Tahu) is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Hopurangi—Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka (Auckland University Press, 2024), as well as a graphic novel and an award-winning book of Maori legends for children. He has also co-edited anthologies of Maori and Polynesian poetry. He is associate professor of creative writing at Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa – Massey University and has taught previously at Manukau Institute of Technology and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. 

Anna Jackson is the author of seven collections of poetry as well as Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers’ Diaries 1915–1962 (Routledge, 2010) and Actions & Travels: How Poetry Works (Auckland University Press, 2022). She lives in Island Bay, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and is associate professor in English literature at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington.