AUP New Poets 3

The latest in the series, this third volume showcases Janice Freegard, Reihana Robinson, and Katherine Liddy, three poets with vastly different yet complementary styles. Freegard writes quirky and often surreal poems about a Wellington inhabited by strange animals, art, and people. Robinson's poems are tropical but gritty, with many set on Pitcairn Island and interspersed with touching lyrics about family and identity in fractured English. Liddy is a promising young poet who has an unusual interest in and an ear for rhyme and rhythm; while some of her poems are texturally dense, she has an impressive range and a pleasing variety.

Janice Freegard won the BNZ Katherine Mansfield short story competition in 2001, and her story "Liking Eyes" was short-listed for the inaugural Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing in 2007. Katherine Liddy is a poet and critic whose poetry has previously been published in Glottis and Landfall. She lives in Canada. Reihana Robinson is the author of several recent art resources for teachers and has research interest in indigenous art education.