Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025 lauded writer Lloyd Jones’s The

lauded writer Lloyd Jones’s The Beaded Curtain is a trenchant exploration of the artist as witness

plain-speaking book of dogged research’ — Sally Blundell

And there’s one thing that makes this book different from any other: all the reproductions of significant paintings

the view from a window — holding them up to the light and presenting them anew

this ‘tale’ of the lobster — or of where the quest for it might end up — is typical of Price’s engrossing and distinctive interweaving of anecdote

Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025 lauded writer Lloyd Jones’s TheRaw, essential new collection from established and emerging voices For the 2025 edition of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her selection of 141 new poems from an exhaustive submissions process. Another packed issue, #59 showcases the raw and vital including from this years featured poet, Mark Prisco and a blistering introduction from Slaughter herself. In addition there are excellent reviews of a