Singlets Briefs & Shorts

Singlets Briefs & Shorts is a must-have for collectors and initiates of contemporary New Zealand poetry. Its a broad powerful and celebratory anthology showcasing established and emerging poets. The book fuses a love of poetry with a love of arthouse films as each poem takes a short film from the Show Me Your Shorts festival for its inspiration. This collection contains poems that evoke others that provoke or reflect. Some are conceptual others visual or traditional. New-Zealand-ness suffuses the collection while at the same featuring expat and migrant poets and verse in non-English languages. Among others the collection presents us with nostalgia Mykaela Nyman the micro fiction of Anton Blank the clipped cryptic Stanzas of Jack Ross the meta- poetry of Jordon Hammel and the lively sensuality of the books editor Trevor Landers. This is book that shows vitality of New Zealand poetry and its power as an art form.