New Zealand poetry

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New Zealand poetry, like all poetry, is influenced by time and place and has been through a number of changes. Poetry has been part of New Zealand culture since before European settlement in the form of Maori sung poems or waiata.

The first colonial Pakeha poetry was also predominantly sung poetry. Initially colonial poetry had a preoccupation with British themes.

New Zealand poetry developed a strong local voice from the 1950s, and has now become a "polyphony" of traditionally marginalised voices.

Wellington Group

Main article: Wellington Group

The Wellington Group or Wellington School was a group of New Zealand poets who worked and lived in and around Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, in the 1950s and 1960s. In part, it was a reaction to Allen Curnow's dictum of localism in NZ poetry, emphasizing cosmopolitanism, but both the Wellington Group and Curnow liked to use some degree of Māori symbolism.

See also

• New Zealand literature
• List of New Zealand poets

External links

• New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
• New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
• New Zealand Book Council
• New Zealand Literature File
• LeafSalon
• Playmarket

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