Best New Zealand Poems 2001

 

  
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James McNaughton
   

 

JAMES MCNAUGHTON was born in Sydney in 1968 but raised and educated in Wellington, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature and a masters degree in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington. Previously published in Sport, The Listener and Poetry New Zealand, he also featured in Spectacular Babies — a collection of the best writing from Victoria’s 2000 masters course. His first collection of poetry, The Stepmother Tree, was published by Darius Press in 2001. Recently he has been living and working in Japan.

Of “Moon Poem”, he says: “This was an attempt at a Lavinia Greenlaw-style poem.”

 

 
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The Stepmother Tree (book jacket only)