Emma Neale
Emma Neale’s seventh collection of poetry, Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2024) won the Peter and Mary Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2025. A former editor of Landfall, Emma has received a number of literary awards, including the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for a Distinguished Contribution to New Zealand Poetry 2020. Emma lives in Ōtepoti/Dunedin where she works as a freelance editor for publishers in New Zealand and overseas.
Reading List
Alchemy
Emma Neale – Alchemy The toys aren’t doing what they should, his brother won’t use the voice he wants, the window is in the cold clear way of the world, he wants a helicopter now, but all we can say …