Te Whariki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa Becky Manawatu These lost worlds seem fantastical

These lost worlds seem fantastical and yet every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell

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then features the interdisciplinary practices of Anni Albers

Te Whariki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa Becky Manawatu These lost worlds seem fantasticalIn journals and pubs, on TikTok and the bestseller lists, the current generation of New Zealand poets is finding new voices, new platforms and new readers. It is a poetry of now: of emojis and hashtags, of bodies and flesh, of identity and aspiration. How to take the measure of this new rush of poetic energy, invention and disruption? What new aesthetics emerge alongside these new voices? How might old forms and old questions take the pulse of the