The poetry of Brian Turner is a paean to the local; poetry grounded in a particular setting, but redolent of universal meaning. As an epigra...

On November this year, the Central Otago Environmental Society awarded poet Brian Turner the honour of New Zealand Poet Laureate of Nature i...

On Friday 21 June, the National Library hosted the launch of former Poet Laureate Vincent O’Sullivan’s last poetry collection Still Is , pub...

He is one of us, he is one of our own. He bears the coasts, the mountains for us, He calls to the north and the south on our behalf, To the...

Since 2001 the International Institute of Modern Letters has been home to Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems. There is a guest editor for ea...

It was a scorching day in Washington DC in late July, but rather than seeking shelter from the heat and humidity in one of the city’s many a...

I’m trying to get into the habit of writing new poems to read at each event I participate in as the Poet Laureate, and I knew that for my in...

Chris joined us at the National Library recently for the opening of   Long Waves of our Ocean: New responses to Pacific poems  and premiered...

The National Library is delighted to celebrate National Poetry Day by announcing Chris Tse of Wellington as the New Zealand Poet Laureate fo...

The whale, says Jonah, is the black night filled with terrible screams. The whale is missiles that winnow the grain from the wheatfields. Th...