Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Stevens Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art and aroha can save us in a godless world.

From Sean Macgregors lounge occupied by stoned youths, to three bank robbers en route to the Penrose ANZ, Michael Stevens second collection presents his clear, clean vision of the lifers who inhabit these islands and beyond.

Walking to Jutland Street is the impressive first book-length collection by up-and-coming Auckland-based poet Michael Steven.