Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025, 9781991016973
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Raw, vital new poems from Aotearoa’s best, established and emerging.
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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025

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    352 pages

  • Release Date

    13 August 2025

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Summary

Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025: Raw, Vital, and Essential

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 a blistering introduction from Slaughter herself. In addition there are excellent reviews of a crop of recent poetry b…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781991016973
ISBN-10:1991016972
Author:Tracey Slaughter
Publisher:Massey University Press
Imprint:Massey University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:13 August 2025
Weight:500g
Dimensions:200mm x 148mm x 30mm
About The Author

Tracey Slaughter

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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