Jack Ross talks to RNZ’s Jesse Mulligan

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The 2018 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook includes 130 new poems from 87 poets. It has a skew for 2018 towards younger writers including those who are still in their teens. It also features the 2018 Poetry Prize Winner’s work. That was won by an Otago University Medical student, Fardowsa Mohamed. The Yearbook’s editor Jack Ross talks to Jesse about the quality of this year's book and the talent of the country’s younger poets.

Listen to the interview here.