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Anne Kennedy

Recipient of a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement, Anne Kennedy is the author of four novels, a novella, anthologised short stories and five collections of poetry. She is the two-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, for her poetry collections Sing-Song and The Darling North. Her most recent book is the edited anthology Remember Me: Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland University Press 2023).

Essays Nonfiction

The Beautiful Afternoon
by Airini Beautrais

Dazzling essays that 'explore not just personal experience but travels in knowledge'.

Anne KennedyApril 5, 2024

African Fiction Literary Fiction Novel

Ndima Ndima
by Tsitsi Mapepa

An 'utterly original' debut novel set in post-Independence Zimbabwe

Anne KennedyNovember 15, 2023

Poetry

My American Chair by Elizabeth Smither

A 'quintessential' collection from the former Poet Laureate, who 'who brings her original eye to uncovering the strangeness of being alive'.

Anne KennedyDecember 21, 2022

Pasifika Poetry

The Wilder Years: Selected Poems by David Eggleton

Reviewed by Anne Kennedy

Anne KennedyFebruary 25, 2022

Poetry

Second Person by Rata Gordon | Sinking Lessons by Philip Armstrong

Reviewed by Anne Kennedy

Anne KennedyJuly 8, 2020

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