More free PNZ downloads for Christmas

Nicholas Reid, ed: Poetry NZ 46 (2013)

Alistair Paterson, ed: Poetry NZ 47 (2013)

Nicholas Reid, ed: Poetry NZ 48 (2014)

Jack Ross, ed: Poetry NZ Yearbook 1 (2014)

As a special Christmas treat, and also by way of an apology for letting a whole year go by without an issue of Poetry New Zealand, we've decided to make the complete pdf files of issues 46, 47, 48, and 49 available as free downloads from the Poetry NZ website.

We'd been selling them previously for $NZ 10 each, but from now on all four of them (as well as issue 50) will be free to a good home. Look near the top of the left margin of the each issue's webpage. You'll see, in little red letters: "Free PDF download." Click there.

As part of the changes necessitated by the shift to our new publisher, Massey University Press, we will be selling each annual issue separately in future, and no longer as part of a one or two-year subscription. Our existing obligations under the old subscriptions policy will, of course, be fulfilled, but Poetry New Zealand Yearbook will henceforth be sold through the MUP website, as well (of course) as in good bookshops everywhere. You can still buy copies of the current issue through the Poetry NZ website, but from now on the payments will go through MUP.

This offer of the free downloads is also meant as a thank you to all those valiant subscribers who’ve kept the magazine afloat for so many years. It goes without saying that we’re still going to need your support to continue, but it now seems more practical to market each issue as a discrete item, rather than as part of a package.

Jack Ross, ed: Poetry NZ Yearbook 1 (2014)

Free pdf download of latest issue of PNZ

Jack Ross, ed: Poetry NZ Yearbook 2 (2015)

Yes, you heard right. All of the contributors to this issue of Poetry NZ Yearbook have agreed to make their work available on a free pdf download from the PNZ website here. (Look near the top of the left margin, in little red letters: "Free PDF download." Click there).

We've sold pdfs of the past few issues of the magazine (issues 46-49), and will continue to do so, but this time you can have it for free if you wish.

This is most unlikely ever to happen again. From next issue on sales and marketing will be handled by our new publisher, Massey University Press, who will presumably be selling their own e-book version of the magazine.

Of course, we're secretly hoping that you'll love the issue so much that you'll order your very own copy of the print edition, but that's up to you and your conscience.

This is meant simply as a gift to poetry-lovers everywhere, and I hope you'll receive it in that spirit.

Jack Ross, ed: Poetry NZ Yearbook 1 (2014)