Emma Neale has just announced she is retiring from her job as the Monday Poem selecting editor for the Otago Daily Times. She has done a terrific job, and said it was ‘gratifying to launch new writers through the paper.’

Sue Wootton, the new editor, is interviewed in the paper this morning. ‘It was the obvious question for a leading New Zealand poet: ”What makes a good poem?” ”If you poke it with a stick and it moves it’s alive,” Sue Wootton says.’ See full piece in ODT.

The ODT is also a consistent reviewer of New Zealand Poetry. Bravo! Could we see other papers taking this up please? And publishing a poem once a week?