Twenty-five poems by 25 New Zealand poets are selected from the previous year.

Bob Orr (born 1949) is a New Zealand poet.

Hunt was amongst the younger New Zealand poets who began to be published in the late 1960s.

Hunt's book sales far exceed most New Zealand poets.

Dennis List (1946 - 9 November 2007) was a New Zealand poet, editor and novelist.

Rob Allan (born 1945) is a New Zealand poet.

He initially avoided some of the preoccupations of earlier New Zealand poets with landscape and colonial history.

Iain Sharp, born in 1953, is a New Zealand poet and critic.

A collection of audio recordings of 51 New Zealand poets made in 1974.

Barry Mitcalfe (1930-86) was a New Zealand poet, editor, and peace activist.