Best Bets | Chris Tse + Panda Wong |

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‘Best of’ poetry collections, as Chris Tse writes in his introduction to Best New Zealand Poems 2023, “provide something of a ‘state of the nation’ view of poetry.” As Best of Australian Poems 2023 co-editor Panda Wong reflects, they are “what poets were feeling, thinking and imagining across many different forms, mediums and lexicons” — in those times when the events around us are “too much for us to process or express in everyday language”. So what are those feelings, those thoughts, those imaginings — how do they collide and diverge from across our oceans, and what are our poets telling us about the world in which we live? Join Chris and Panda as they reflect on 2023 through the eyes of our poets in Aotearoa and Australia. Find out more at asianamericanliteraturefestival.org/