Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2025 judge announced

Robert (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu, Irish) is the author and editor of fifteen books—mainly poetry, as well as a graphic novel Maui Legends of the Outcast illustrated by Chris Slane and Weaving Earth and Sky, a New Zealand Post Children's Book of the Year, which was illustrated by Gavin Bishop. He co-edited, with Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri, the anthologies of Polynesian poetry in English, Whetu Moana and Mauri Ola, and an anthology of Māori poetry with Reina Whaitiri, Puna Wai Kōrero. He co-edited with Janet Newman Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology (Otago University Press, 2024). Read more …