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A Book of New Zealand Verse 1923-45

work by Curnow

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New Zealand literature

  • The Bone People
    In New Zealand literature: Poetry

    A Book of New Zealand Verse (1945; rev. ed. 1951), edited by Allen Curnow, is usually held to mark the advent of New Zealand literature’s “postcolonial” phase. It was Modernist, nationalist, and critically sophisticated, and Curnow’s long, elegant introduction set a new standard for the…

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