Your own personal poetry reading at home for Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2017.
For National Poetry Day, a mixtape of New Zealand poets curated by Hera Lindsay Bird and Ashleigh Young.
Five poetry collections to read for National Poetry Day.
Two poetry posters for you to enjoy: Bats by Ashleigh Young and Ways of Making Love by Hera Lindsay Bird.
It's National Poetry Day! To celebrate, Rosabel talks about her fraught relationship with poetry and shares some new poems by Hera Lindsay Bird.
Ahead of National Poetry Day on Friday, we point to a few things worth hearing, seeing and quaffing at in the four centres.
Ash Davida Jane reminisces on the glory days of Tumblr for discovering writing.
Is New Zealand poetry “experiencing some kind of revolution”? Mark Williams reviews The Friday Poem: 100 New Zealand Poems, edited by Steve Braunias, alongside Short Poems of New Zealand, edited by Jenny Bornholdt.
Always Becominging’s debut poetry book plays with profundity and deceit. Van Mei reviews.
Veteran of Auckland’s spoken word scene Tim Heath reviews the recent Trans-Tasman anthology Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word.
Brannavan Gnanalingam talks to Terence Davies, director of Sunset Song and A Quiet Passion, about the struggles and the euphoria of creation.
A poem about systemic and institutional racism against Māori in Aotearoa by Linda Tuhiwai Smith.
Tusiata Avia writes a poem in remembrance of the Christchurch earthquakes 10 years on.
Joan Fleming and Ashleigh Young talk poetry and obsessions.
Jackson Nieuwland reviews essa may ranapiri’s debut collection of poetry, ransack.
Melissa Laing on first kisses and poetry on Auckland’s Western Line