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20 contemporary New Zealand poets 224 p Table of contents includes: Allen Curnow -- Hone Tuwhare -- C.K. Stead --Vincent O'Sullivan -- Ian Wedde -- Bill Manhire -- Elizabeth Smither -- Brian Turner --Cilla McQueen -- Dinah Hawken -- Gregory O'Brien -- Jenny Bornholdt -- Fiona Farrell -- Bernadette Hall -- Geoff Cochrane -- Robert Sullivan -- James Brown -- Glenn Colquhoun -- Anne Kennedy -- Tusiata Avia Summary: Starting in 1986, it captures turning points in the work of Allen Curnow and Bill Manhire, and charts the wave of major poets who started publishing in the late 1980s, like Jenny Bornholdt and Bernadette Hall. Younger writers such as Glenn Colquhoun and Tusiata Avia explore new ways of making art out of the bracing challenge of living in a bicultural and multicultural society. An introduction by the editors and reflections by the poets themselves illuminate themes and contexts