AUP New Poets 6
Ben Kemp, Vanessa Crofskey and Chris Stewart
Auckland University Press
pub 2020

September 10, 2020

AUP New Poets 6 stars the work of Ben Kemp, Vanessa Crofsky, and Chris Stewart, three unique poets who display the diversity and freshness of current New Zealand poetry. Despite their differences, these three collections can be read seamlessly together, with Kemp, Crofsky, and Stewart all commenting on common threads such as identity and memory. These themes are made unique by the tangible differences in form and setting that permeate each poet’s works, making AUP New Poets 6 a journey that jumps from Japan, to New Zealand, from fire-lit memories to poems scrawled on post-it notes, all displaying the exciting and complex new era of Kiwi poetry.  Read more