Poetry Aotearoa

16/07/2025

With Massey University Press – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

23/05/2025

can't wait to see this!

Take a deep breath! 💨 The electric new 2025 edition of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, edited by Dr Tracey Slaughter and featuring poet Mark Prisco, has arrived at our office. It hits bookshops 14 August, just in time for National Poetry Day.

23/05/2025

Can't wait to see it!

Take a deep breath! 💨 The electric new 2025 edition of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, edited by Dr Tracey Slaughter and featuring poet Mark Prisco, has arrived at our office. It hits bookshops 14 August, just in time for National Poetry Day.

23/05/2025

Can't wait!

Take a deep breath! 💨 The electric new 2025 edition of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, edited by Dr Tracey Slaughter and featuring poet Mark Prisco, has arrived at our office. It hits bookshops 14 August, just in time for National Poetry Day.

14/10/2024

Another great selection of Aotearoa Poetry & Writing (including yours truly) from editors Lincoln Jaques and Mark Ulyseas:
https://issuu.com/liveencounters/docs/le_p_w_aotearoa_vol_3_nov-dec_2024issuu?fr=sMDVmMjc4MzcxMTQ

12/09/2024

Janet Charman has invited me and four other writers to read at the 6X10 Poetry Event in Avondale in a fortnight's time, on Saturday 28th. Here are the details:

Unpacking Copies of Haunts (27/6/24) [photograph: Bronwyn Lloyd The official publication date for my new collection of short stories,...

20/08/2024

A fine event to celebrate Poetry Day this Friday (23/8) at the East Coast Bays Library in Browns Bay:

30/04/2024

‘A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.’ Coco Chanel Because you grow up in your mother’s salon, where every mirror holds a story, wet-haired. To a child, it is a temple. Smalltown temple, with a boxed-in glass front and a concrete ramp to a flimsy swing door. When another cust...

09/04/2024

We always love our annual drive down the motorway to Poppies bookshop in Hamilton for the launch of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook. Here’s the editor, Dr Tracey Slaughter, at left, with the featured poem of volume 58, Carin Smeaton. Hamilton’s powerful poetry scene was in evidence during the fantastic readings. A great night!

12/03/2024

I've just received my contributor's copy of Poetry Aotearoa 2024 in the post. Kudos to Tracey Slaughter for her excellent job in wrangling so fascinating a set of poems into print! The volume is appropriately subtitled 'revelations', and I defy anyone who reads through (or in) it to see it as mainstream or safe. Certainly it's very much to my taste.

The launch of the issue will be livestreamed next Wednesday on youtube:

Join us live for the book launch of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 edited by Tracey Slaughter.Wednesday 20 March 2023, 5.30pm.More on the book: https://www.ma...

12/03/2024

Copies of the latest issue of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024: Revelations are now being sent out to contributors. For more on the magazine, please go here:

For the 2024 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her selection of 123 new poems from an exhaustive submission process.

09/12/2023

Warmest congratulations to the truly awe-inspiring Tracey Slaughter for winning the poetry prize in the 2023 Manchester Writing Competition!

Tracey Slaughter and April Yee have won the 2023 Manchester Writing Competition, the UK’s biggest awards for unpublished writing. Poet Slaughter took home the Manchester Poetry Prize, and Yee was awarded the Manchester Fiction Prize at a gala awards ceremony on Friday evening (December 8). Each wi...