This book evaluates a sample of New Zealand Poetry Anthologies
covering the 1940s to the 1980s. It assesses how the intentions,
knowledge and tastes of the anthology editors have influenced the
representation of New Zealand poetry. Changes in the content of the
poetry are observed, as well as the techniques that were used.
Allen Curnow's influential anthologies of 1945 and 1960 were
concerned mostly with the topic of literary nationalism. From the
mid-1960s, trends emerged linked to possibilities offered by
American poetry and perhaps to a search for greater freedom of
expression in general. By the mid-1970s, New Zealand's poetic canon
was well established on the strength of publications from Penguin
and Oxford University Press, but poetry by women seemed
under-represented. Despite increased publication of writing by
women poets from the late 1960s onwards, many years passed before
women's writing was fully acknowledged in major anthologies. A new
bias emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s in favour of work from the
University Presses, but, in recent years, anthologies that present
some alternative point of view of New Zealand's literary history
have proliferated.
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