Here is a list of the poets in the latest edition of Best NZ Poems edited by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams. Poetry Shelf has featured many of these poets to date and I can’t wait to work my way through the poems. This is a terrific line up — imagine it as a poetry reading!

Fleur Adcock Hinemoana Baker Amy Brown Sarah Broom Kate Camp Mary Jane Duffy Murray Edmond Johanna Emeney Cliff Fell Bernadette Hall Dinah Hawken Caoilinn Hughes Anna Jackson Anne Kennedy Michele Leggott Therese Lloyd Selina Tusitala Marsh John Newton Gregory O’Brien Rachel O’Neill Vincent O’Sullivan Elizabeth Smither Chris Tse Ian Wedde Ashleigh Young

Check out the 2013 page here