{"product_id":"aup-new-poets-6-9781869409098","title":"AUP New Poets 6","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRelaunched under the editorship of Anna Jackson in 2019, AUP New Poets 6 includes substantial selections from the poetry of Ben Kemp, Vanessa Crofskey and Chris Stewart.   We move from Kemp's slow-paced attentive readings of place and people, in a selection moving between Japan and New Zealand, to the velocity of Vanessa Crofskey's fierce, funny, intimate and political poetry, which takes the form of shopping lists, Post-it Notes, graphs, erasures, a passenger arrival card and even *poetry*, and finally to Chris Stewart's visceral take on the domestic, the nights cut to pieces by teething, the gravity of love and the churn of time.  AUP New Poets 6 is an arresting introduction to the rich diversity of contemporary New Zealand poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is said that we are in the middle of a poetry revolution in New Zealand: there is certainly a lot of production, an eager climate of reception, and a sense that new cultural confidences and anxieties are finding new expression. It is a pleasure, then, to find a carefully chosen selection of new poets and new poems that show the rich diversity of the contemporary scene: from Ben Kemp entering 'the arteries of Tokyo . . . with ears open', to Vanessa Crofskey's barbed attention to the deceptions and oddities of our try-hard but not really multicultural society, to Chris Stewart's patient observations of family and childbirth. - Mark Williams","brand":"Auckland University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360223691095,"sku":"9781869409098","price":22.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781869409098.jpg?v=1754127033","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aup-new-poets-6-9781869409098","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}