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Ka Mate Ka Ora #9 is out

From our friends across the ditch: the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre has announced the ninth issue of Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics with a special focus on North American legacies in the southern hemisphere.

In this issue:

Murray Edmond, Trade and True: Anthologies Fifty Years After Donald Allen’s The New American Poetry
Virginia Gow, ‘The Activity of Evidence’: Robert Creeley’s New Zealand
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Hello, America: Christchurch’s 1970s Pacific Moment
Scott Hamilton, Before Erebus: Five Footnotes to Kendrick Smithyman’s ‘Aircrash in Antarctica’
Ian Wedde, Does Poetry Matter?
Roger Horrocks, Leigh Davis (1955-2009)
Paul Millar, Jacquie Baxter / JC Sturm (1927-2009)
Murray Edmond, ‘Landed Poem Upwards’: Martyn Sanderson (1938-2009)
Robert Sullivan, Cape Return: for Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (1925-2009)

Ka Mate Ka Ora is edited by Murray Edmond with assistance from Hilary Chung, Michele Leggott and Lisa Samuels at the University of Auckland. It publishes research essays and readings of New Zealand-related material and welcomes contributions from poets, academics, essayists, teachers and students from within New Zealand and overseas.

So send something in!

Read on at Ka Mate Ka Ora #9.

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