
Alison Glenny’s collection Slanted has made the longlist for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry in the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards.
This follows a similar longlisting for her previous collection Bird Collector in the 2022 awards.

Alison Glenny’s collection Slanted has made the longlist for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry in the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards.
This follows a similar longlisting for her previous collection Bird Collector in the 2022 awards.

Hera Lindsay Bird features selections from Some helpful models of grief by Hana Pera Aoake as part of The Friday Poem series.

The Aotearoa New Zealand launch of The Tranquility of Solitude takes place at Auckland’s premier art book retailer Lamplight Books, 6pm Thursday 31 July, with the artist in attendance to sign books.

Book critic Anna Rankin reviews Some helpful models of grief by Hana Pera Aoake on Radio New Zealand National as part of the Jesse Mulligan Afternoons programme.

Launch event for ‘Some helpful models of grief’ by Hana Pera Aoake at Lamplight Books in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
We were blessed by a mihi from Nova Paul, with poetry from special guests Arielle Walker, Liam Jacobson, and Caron Smeaton.