No Other Place to Stand: An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand: 2022

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Ninety-one writers with connections to these islands grapple with the biggest issue facing people and the planet.

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Jordan Hamel is a Pneke-based poet and performer. He was the 2018 New Zealand Poetry Slam champion. He uses poetry and performance to create awareness and discourse about environmental and political issues. He is the co-editor of Stasis Journal and his debut poetry collection Everyone is everyone except you was published by Dead Bird Books in 2022. Rebecca Hawkes is a poet/painter from Canterbury, living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Her chapbook Softcore coldsores was published in AUP New Poets 5 in 2019. Her first full-length poetry collection, Meat Lovers, was recently unleashed by Auckland University Press. Rebecca edits Sweet Mammalian and is a founding member of popstar poets posse Show Ponies. Erik Kennedy is the author of Another Beautiful Day Indoors (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022) and Theres No Place Like the Internet in Springtime (Victoria University Press, 2018), which was shortlisted for best book of poems at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. He lives in tautahi Christchurch. Essa Ranapiri (Ngti Wehi Wehi / Ngti Takatpui / Clan Gunn) is a poet from Kirikiriroa. They are part of puku.riri, a local writing group. Their book ransack was published by Victoria University Press in 2019. Give the land back. Its the only way to fix this mess. They will write until theyre dead. And after that, sing.