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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025

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For the 2025 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her selection of 141 new poems from an exhaustive submission process. Another packed issue, #59 showcases the raw and the vital — including from this year’s featured... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025

Raw, essential new collection from established and emerging voices

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For the 2025 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her selection of 141 new poems from an exhaustive submission process.

Another packed issue, #59 showcases the raw and the vital — including from this year’s featured poet, Mark Prisco — and features a blistering introduction from Slaughter herself. In addition, there are excellent reviews of a crop of recent poetry books.

With work by both established and emerging New Zealand poets, the Yearbook is essential reading for all poetry fans.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781991016973

Publisher: Massey University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 August 2025

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Massey University Press

Contributors:

  • Edited by Tracey Slaughter

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 500g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Dr Tracey Slaughter is a poet and short story writer. She is the author of six books, including: Conventional Weapons (Victoria University Press, 2019), Devil's Trumpet (Victoria University Press, 2021) and the award-winning novella if there is no shelter (Ad Hoc, 2020). She has been widely anthologised and has received numerous awards, including the international Bridport Prize (2014), BNZ Katherine Mansfield Awards in 2004 and 2001, and in 2023 she was the winner of the Manchester Poetry Prize. Her short story collection, Deleted Scenes for Lovers, was acclaimed as ‘note-perfect’ (Spinoff) and ‘intoxicating . . . self-assured, forceful’ (Listener). In 2014 she established the literary journal Mayhem. She lives in Kirikiriroa Hamilton and teaches creative writing at the University of Waikato.

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