Tony Beyer reviews The Interview Rose by Elizabeth Smither, New Days for Old: Prose poems by James Brown and The Gum Trees of Kerikeri by Lynn Jenner

Dani Yourukova reviews Hungus by Amber Esau; My Body is a Horror Film by Ray Shipley; Giving Birth to My Father by Tusiata Avia

Lynn Jenner reviews Peace & Quiet by Dinah Hawken, Beyond the Border and Other Poems by Owen Marshall and Making Mixtapes with Seichan by Annabel Wilson

James Norcliffe reviews Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire and What to Wear by Jenny Bornholdt

Francis Cooke reviews If We Knew How to We Would by Emma Barnes, Wearing Today by Wes Lee and show you(’)r(e) working out by Liz Breslin

Erik Kennedy reviews Mad Diva by Cadence Chung; Perverse Verse by Michael Gould; The Innocent Eye by Brian Gregory; and Pill-Rolling Fingers: Poems about early-onset Parkinson’s by Tara Coleman

John Gibb reviews T.A.B. Ula Rasa: Collected poems by Michael O’Leary

Genevieve Scanlan reviews Bonfires on the Ice by Harry Ricketts; Into Air Sweet as Heaven by Jan FitzGerald; AUP New Poets 11: Xiaole Zhan, Margo Montes de Oca and J.A. Vili edited and introduced by Anne Kennedy

Denys Trussell reviews Te Pūrere/The Exodus: The anthology of expatriate New Zealand poets edited by Vaughan Rapatahana and John Gallas; Dancing Heart: New and selected poems 1968–2024 by Jan Kemp

Tony Beyer reviews Standing on my Shadow by Serie Barford; Between by Sue Fitchett; Dracula in the Colonies by Tim Jones