AUP New Poets 7

<p>From Apia to Parnell, ancient Rome to Aro Park and on to the furthest reaches of the internet, <em>AUP New Poets 7</em> takes readers on an eye-popping journey through contemporary New Zealand poetry.</p> <p>The collection opens with Rhys Feeney’s passionate take on contemporary global politics and ecological collapse. Next, Ria Masae leads us from a <em>fale</em> in Samoa to the pulsing streets of Auckland city in a voice rooted in the spoken word. And finally Claudia Jardine brings the startling images and unlikely facts from the classical world to echo around inner-city Wellington.</p> <p>We see scars and tattoos, bipedal goat-men and deep-fried bananas, fat-soluble poisons and indestructible pumpkins as each poet’s distinctive vocabulary and sense of rhythm combines in one powerful volume.</p>