AUP New Poets 6

by Vanessa Crofskey, Anna Jackson (Editor), Ben Kemp, Chris Stewart

Overview

Post-it notes and shopping lists, Japanese monks, and children’s lungs: AUP New Poets 6 is a deep dive into the rich diversity of New Zealand poetry today. Relaunched 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781869409098
Publisher:	Auckland University Press
Publication date:	08/13/2020
Series:	AUP New Poets , #6
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Vanessa Crofskey currently works for The Pantograph Punch as a staff writer, and as a curator at Window Gallery (University of Auckland). Anna Jackson made her debut in AUP New Poets 1 before publishing six collections with Auckland University Press, most recently I, Clodia (2014). Ben Kemp works as a primary school teacher in Papua New Guinea, where he has lived for the past three years with his diplomat wife and three children. Chris Stewart was born in Wellington but grew up in Christchurch. His poems have been published in New Zealand journals such as Snorkel, Takahe, Sweet Mammalian, and more.

Table of Contents

Foreword Anna Jackson vii

The Monies Who Tend the Garden with Tiny Scissors Ben Kemp

Food to Song Juni-Gatsu 3

1 $$$ Rice 5

2 Kumara 6

3 $$$ Green Tea 7

4 Kukupa 8

Opoutere 9

Oto 11

Four Tokyo Subcultures 12

The Japanese Moko 15

Ranginui's Tomb 16

Two Vignettes of a Warrior

Part 1 Miyamoto 18

Part 2 Te Kooti 19

The Walker Flower and the Potiki Tree 20

The Essence of I 21

Shopping List of Small Violences Vanessa Crofskey

Postcard from Rainbow's End 29

I used to play the silent game even during lunch breaks 30

Remuera 32

Dumplings are fake 33

New Zealand Passenger Arrival Card 35

Ptsd memes for the anxious / avoidant teen 36

There's Real Manuka Honey in Heaven 40

Foyer Fucking 41

Beauty 44

Guide Notes 45

Recipe for a Funeral 46

($$$) 49

Shopping List of Small Violences 50

Chart Title 51

Glory Be to Family Planning 54

Ex-Partners Have Called Me a Baptism 56

Two-piece bathing suits 57

+/- 60

The Capital of My Mother 61

To All the Boys I've Loved Before 64

Gravity Chris Stewart

Navigator 69

Gravity 70

Everyone wants to know how heavy they are 71

Ebers 72

Flecks of ice 73

Mummy 74

You have too many dreams to be asleep 75

A tooth emerges 76

You take a tunnel to the sea 77

Time's handle locks from the inside 78

I have no juice for you to suck 79

Profit 80

There are no angels but the children of mice and eagles 81

Male seahorses bear the young 82

Scarf 83

Rusty bones 84

Inflammation 85

Russian Soils 86

Your father was also buried 87

Frost 88

My father the elephant 89

The history of his bridge 90

The chef 91

Like stone flowers a dead man 92

Notes 95