Ka Mate Ka Ora: a New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics

Ka Mate Ka Ora: a New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics

http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/kmko/

Publisher: The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre

The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre ( nzepc) is a project based at the
University of Auckland to set up an electronic gateway to poetry resources
in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific region. It aims to coordinate
existing archival and publishing information, and to present some full-text
electronic publication of poetry and commentary in consultation with authors
and their publishers. nzepc also promotes live poetry events as and when
resources permit and is committed to extending and documenting locations for
poetry in the digital environment and its real-world counterpart.

Ka Mate Ka Ora is named after New Zealandıs best-known poem, Te Rauparahaıs
haka, composed in 1822. The journal is part of the New Zealand Electronic
Poetry Centre (nzepc) and is based at the University of Auckland. It will
publish substantial essays (6,000 ­ 10,000 words), review articles,
historical reappraisals, close readings, shorter notices and mixed genre
criticism in the area of poetry and poetics.

We intend to provide a site for discourse and debate about New Zealand
poetry. We will not consider contributions of poems for publication nor will
we publish short reviews of books of poems. All submissions will be sent to
referees for assessment and comment.

We welcome contributions from poets, academics, essayists, teachers and
students from within New Zealand and overseas. Œ New Zealandı is interpreted
broadly in our journal to include expatriate and immigrant writers. New
Zealand is seen as a particular locality, community, context or provocation
for poetry, but within this site there is a diversity of poetic activities
(the poetry discussed need not be explicitly Œaboutı New Zealand).

Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics will present
critical writing in a variety of modes. These include:

* theoretical and analytic essays on individual poets or significant
volumes, on schools or movements, on theoretical angles or historical
moments
* close readings of individual poems or sequences or books
* talks about poetry or poetics
* short comments, squibs, news
* archival material with commentary
* discourse which mixes critical and creative modes
* correspondence and editorial notes

ISSN: 1177-2182 

Editor:

Murray Edmond      
Email: m.edmond@auckland.ac.nz

Ka Mate Ka Ora is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the
Internet.

Content available in HTML and PDF format.
 
Current Issue: Issue 2 July 2006

Date: 18 December 2006