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More Favourable Waters More Favourable Waters More Favourable Waters AOTEAROA POETS RESPOND TO Aotearoa poets respond to Dante’s Purgatory DANTE’S PURGATORY Edited by Marco Sonzogni & Timothy Smith Edited by Marco Sonzogni & Timothy Smith

To be released March 2021 ISBN 978-1-98-859535-1 rrp $25 • 130mm x 190mm • 80pp • poetry

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alita es molore, totas doloreiciis nus ratest eaque. Marco SonzogniEdited by & Timothy Smith To exceratur maion poreceatum es quam et faccate Selling points: nullorrum facid quid que num eumqui coris quia cus • A diverse line-up of thirty-three Aotearoa poets have sinctatio quist eiundam, eos milignis si dolorepudae been commissioned to respond to Dante’s Purgatory lautem re pratium re estion rem aborro et volorpo. Ruptatia coreptiis erum faccus que porae sam net with an original work of their own. velestis doluptae simusae con cus quia prenducia iusdandior sam quiae reptatis aute con preicil et • Includes current and former poets laureate rem ipistem aces doluptatus dus qui ipsunt optus, and Vincent O’Sullivan, award-winning sequi conse ni cum voloria del earum veniendae cum solo ent que et, undi ut quuntus. Pudior adicturi poets like Helen Rickerby and , and comnitatur, vellam. rising stars of the Aotearoa poetry scene.

More Favourable Waters is an anthology of BARCODE contemporary poets from Aotearoa New Zealand commemorating one of the world’s great poets, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), 700 years after his Airini Beautrais • Marisa Cappetta • Kay McKenzie Cooke death. Mary Cresswell • Majella Cullinane • Sam Duckor-Jones Nicola Easthope • David Eggleton • Michael Fitzsimons The anthology will be published on 25 March Janis Freegard • Anahera Gildea • Michael Harlow 2021, which is Dante Day, chosen by the Italian Jeffrey Paparoa Holman • • Andrew Johnston Government to celebrate the poet’s legacy. Tim Jones • Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod • Hugh Lauder For this project we are honoured to be working Vana Manasiadis • Mary McCallum • Elizabeth Morton with the Embassy of Italy in New Zealand and the Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall • Vincent O’Sullivan • Robin Peace Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Sydney, alongside Helen Rickerby • Reihana Robinson • Robert Sullivan editors Marco Sonzogni (Victoria University Steven Toussaint • Jamie Trower • Tim Upperton of Wellington—Te Herenga Waka), an Italian- Sophie van Waardenberg • Bryan Walpert • Sue Wootton New Zealander, and Timothy Smith (Oxford University), a New Zealander. Each of the 33 poets has written a poem of 33 lines inspired by and including a short passage from one of the 33 cantos of Dante’s Purgatory, the second part of his epic The Divine Comedy.

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