Writer: Chris Tse.

It’s the end of the world and Chris Tse has lost his chill. In Super Model Minority he completes a loose trilogy of books – from the historical racism of How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes to a queer coming of age in HE’S SO MASC – by looking to a future where ‘it’s enough to look up at a sky blushing red and see possibility’.

March 2022 release

Author: Elizabeth Smither. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

My American Chair, Elizabeth Smither’s newest collection, contains the words of a seasoned poet interrogating humanity, her encounters and friendships and observing with great acuity the small oddities that exist in the world.

November 2022 release

Writer: Frances Samuel.

For many years, poet Frances Samuel worked at a museum, writing the text for exhibitions. In Museum, she redefines the notion of a museum, making it infinite and wild.

February 2022 release

Cover story: Roar Squeak Purr: A New Zealand Treasury of Animal Poems edited by Paula Green and illustrated by Jenny Cooper (Penguin Random House).

Featuring more than 200 animal poems by Aotearoa's best writers, ROAR SQUEAK PURR shows just how fun poetry can be, and is sure to inspire a new generation of poets.

October 2022 release

Author: Alice Te Punga Somerville. Reviewer: Elizabeth Heritage.

If I were to review Always Italicise: how to write while colonised as a tweet it would be a row of fire emojis.

September 2022 release

Cover story: Always Italicise: how to write while colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville (Auckland University Press)

A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville with cover design by Neil Pardington.

September 2022 release

Author: David Howard. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

David Howard’s latest substantial collection, Rāwhao: The Completed Poems, sees him pull together 150 poems wide-ranging in topic that span 1975 to today.

September 2022 release

Author: Adrienne Jansen. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

Roll & Break is a collection full of surprises, and a celebration of the beaches at the heart of our Aotearoa life.

October 2022 release

Author: Michael Harlow. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

Renoir’s Bicycle: A collection of prose poems confirms Michael Harlow’s reputation as a playful and profound poet/storyteller.

September 2022 release

Author: Nick Ascroft. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

Nick Ascroft’s fifth collection may be his most personal yet, with a sweetness that stings us repeatedly. The Stupefying is not to be missed.

September 2022 release

Author: Frankie McMillan. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

In the small stories of The Wandering Nature of Us Girls, Frankie McMillan balances transgression and wit, showing a cast of unmoored characters with her signature warmth and compassion.

August 2022 release

Author: Tim Upperton. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

In his third poetry collection, award-winning poet Tim Upperton takes us to the end of the driveway, over the Manawatū – twisting like an eel – and on to Topeka and Paris.

August 2022 release

Author: Elizabeth Morton. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

Naming the Beasts is a menagerie of poems about the gnarlier aspects of being a creature of this world.

July 2022 release

Author: Sabreen Islam. Illustrator: Alice Waldow. Reviewer: Erica Stretton.

Raw teenage emotion roars and sobs in Sabreen Islam’s spring clean.

July 2022 release

Author: Jordan Hamel. Reviewer: Sam Finnemore.

Jordan Hamel’s Everyone is Everyone Except You is an equal-opportunity pop-culture golem, built from all available sources and breathed into motion.

May 2022 release

Extract from: Landfall 243 edited by Lynley Edmeades (Otago University Press)

Ruby Macomber is the winner of the 2022 Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition, published in Landfall 243 which is available now. Kete is delighted to publish her essay Good Catholic.

May 2022 release

Author: Cadence Chung . Reviewer: Elizabeth Heritage.

Cadence Chung’s Anomalia is a deceptively delicate-looking pukapuka containing a reaching vastness that I found compelling.

May 2022 release

Authors: Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leek . Reviewer: Linda Herrick.

A lovely soft dreamy art-poetry partnership by Saskia Leek and Lynley Edmeades gently elevates domestic life.

May 2022 release

Author: Robert Sullivan Reviewer: David Eggleton.

Robert Sullivan's poems navigate by portents, and by the stars, to thrill and inspire us.

April 2022 release

Author: Michael Steven. Reviewer: Dan Rabarts.

Michael Steven’s Night School reads like a nostalgic time-travelling acid-soaked road-trip, formed of fragments of clarity that stab sharply out of the haze of the years between hits.

April 2022 release