Overview

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 books. With work by both established and emerging New Zealand poets, the Yearbook is essential reading for all poetry fans.

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Reviews

‘Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025 is a testament to the depth and diversity of New Zealand poetry today. Slaughter and her team have created more than an anthology; they have captured a collective breath, suspended in ink, resonant with urgency and hope. For any reader — devotee or newcomer — it is a powerful, essential read.’ — NZ Booklovers ‘These voices bear witness to our predicament — the pile-on of existential crises from without and within. That’s something. They sigh, whisper, stutter, choke, tease, mislead, mesmerise, placate, provoke, shout, muse, play, reflect, vent, evangelise, rant, yawp, cry out.’ — Charles Bisley, Newsroom

Author Information

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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