the INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MODERN LETTERS has the
Best New Zealand Poems on audio or read

you can click on ‘listen to’ to hear the poet read their work, or ‘read’ to link to the poem itself at the above site

this is a list of the available poems & the authors as at June 2011:

• Fleur Adcock - Having Sex with the Dead

• Johanna Aitchison - Miss Red in Japan

• Michele Amas - Daughter

• Angela Andrews - White Saris

• Tusiata Avia - Shower

• Stu Bagby – The Boys

• Hinemoana Baker - Methods of assessing the likely presence of a
terrorist threat in a remote indigenous community

• Peter Bland - X-Ray

• Rachel Bush - The Strong Mothers

• David Beach - Parachute

• Jenny Bornholdt - Fitter Turner

• Amy Brown - The Propaganda Poster Girl

• James Brown - University Open Day

• Alan Brunton - Movie

• Kate Camp - Mute Song

• Gordon Challis - Walking an imaginary dog

• Geoff Cochrane - Seven Unposted Postcards to My Brother

• Glenn Colquhoun - To a woman who fainted recently at a poetry reading

• Jennifer Compton - The Threepenny Kowhai Stamp Brooch

• Mary Cresswell - Golden Weather (Cook Strait)

• Lynn Davidson - Before we all hung out in cafes

• Stephanie de Montalk - Hawkeye V4

• Fiona Farrell - Our Trip to Takaka

• Cliff Fell - Ophelia

• Sia Figiel – Songs of the fat brown woman

• Joan Fleming - Theory of Light

• Rhian Gallagher - Burial

• John Gallas - The Mongolian Women's Orchestra

• Paula Green - Waitakere Rain

• Bernadette Hall - The History of Europe

• Dinah Hawken - 365 x 30

• Sam Hunt - Lines for a New Year

• Anna Jackson - Spring

• Lynn Jenner - Women's Business

• Andrew Johnston - The Sunflower

• Anne Kennedy - Die die, live live

• Michele Leggott - Nice Feijoas

• Graham Lindsay – big bed

• Anna Livesey - Shoeman in Love

• Selina Tusitala Marsh - Not Another Nafanua Poem

• Karlo Mila - Sacred Pulu

• Cilla McQueen - Ripples

• Emma Neale - Brooch

• James Norcliffe - Yet Another Poem About a Giraffe

• Gregory O' Brien - Where I Went

• Peter Olds - Disjointed on Wellington Railway Station

• Bob Orr - Eternity

• Chris Orsman - Making Waves

• Vincent O'Sullivan - The Child in the Gardens: Winter

• Vivienne Plumb - Goldfish

• Chris Price - Rose and fell

• Kerrin P. Sharpe - like rain the thunder

• Marty Smith - Hat

• Elizabeth Smither - Two Security Guards Talking About Jupiter

• C.K. Stead - Without

• Robert Sullivan - After the UN Rapporteur Supported Maori Customary Rights

• Brian Turner - Fear

• Tim Upperton - The Starlings

• Richard von Sturmer - After Arp

• Louise Wallace - The Poi Girls

• Ian Wedde - To Death

• Sonja Yelich - and-yellow

• Ashleigh Young - Certain Trees