Author: Jessica Hinerangi. Reviewer: Elizabeth Heritage.

“One of the most profoundly bisexual pukapuka I’ve ever read. An immersive sense of ‘both/and’ permeates the whole work: Māori and Pākehā, land and sea, she and they.”

July 2023 release

Author: Alice Te Punga Somerville. Publisher: Auckland University Press.

Kete is celebrating poetry all week in the lead up to Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day. Read ‘Layers’ from Alice Te Punga Somerville’s prize-winning collection. Find out why Always Italicise has been characterised as ‘a row of fire emojis’!

September 2022 release

Author: Megan Kitching. Publisher: Otago University Press.

The Kete Questionnaire: How to grow a poet - Megan Kitching on how her PhD, looking at the influence of the natural sciences on 18th century poetry, shaped her debut poetry collection At the Point of Seeing.

June 2023 release

Author: Claudia Jardine. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

Filled with hickeys, puttanesca and tart wit, BITER is an apt title for Claudia Jardine’s debut collection of verse where fresh translations of erotic Greek epigrams are threaded through boozy sonnets, ecstatic odes and startlingly vulnerable love poems.

April 2023 release

Author: Jane Arthur. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

In her second, spine-cracking collection, Calamities!, Jane Arthur wants “to get morbid.”

May 2023 release

Editors: Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy. Reviewer: Tania Roxborogh.

Edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy, this fresh, exciting anthology features poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction, as well as kōrero or conversations between writers and work by local and international artists.

May 2023 release

Author: Louise Wallace. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

In her latest collection, Louise Wallace raises an existential eyebrow at pregnancy-birth-motherhood.

May 2023 release

Cover story: Iris and Me by Philippa Werry (Ahoy! The Cuba Press, $25.00)

Author Philippa Werry on her book Iris and Me, the Kete Cover Story March winner: “I absolutely love it!”

March 2023 release

Author: Michele Leggott. Reviewer: Paula Green.

In her latest collection, Michele Leggott speaks to the art and writings of 19th century New Zealand painter Emily Cumming Harris. Face to the Sky tells stories of love and loss from two women in the shadow the same mountain, more than a century apart.

April 2023 release

Cover story: A Lack Of Good Sons by Jake Arthur (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $25.00)

Poet Jake Arthur on the first Kete Cover Story pick of 2023: “I also loved that the men were holding hands; it really asserted that group status I wanted to imply in the title and epigraph.”

February 2023 release

Editor: Anna Jackson. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

Longing, fragility, romance and other tidal forces collide in AUP New Poets 9 featuring poems by Sarah Lawrence, harold coutts and Arielle Walker.

March 2023 release

Editor: Tracey Slaughter. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook - afterburn, edited by Tracey Slaughter, is an essential, annual collection of terrific new poetry from New Zealand.

March 2023 release

Author: Charles Olsen . Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

Charles Olsen’s La rebeldía del sol (Rebellious Sun), his third collection, centres around journeys and collaborations.

July 2022 release

Author: C. K. Stead. Reviewer: Harry Ricketts.

C.K. Stead’s new collection, Say I Do This, is a reminder that during his long and fruitful poetic career, he has always been a civic poet, and one of our most lucid and articulate.

March 2023 release

Author: James Norcliffe. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

Letter to ‘Oumuamua is polished, clever collection by an accomplished poet.

February 2023 release

The Kete Questionnaire: As his 11th poetry collection is released, James Norcliffe talks about interstellar objects, ghosts and growing up on the West Coast.

February 2023 release

Article: What to read in 2023: Non-Fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand

The quirky, the political and the artful non-fiction to look out for in 2023.

Article: What to read in 2023: Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand

‘Wonderfully, poetry continues to leap into life…’