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New Zealand verse

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<em>New Zealand verse</em>

As well as assembling poems by some of New Zealand's best-known 19th-century writers – including William Pember Reeves, Alfred Domett, Jessie Mackay, Hubert Church and Blanche Baughan – W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie's anthology, New Zealand verse, was notable for its substantial and reflective introduction. The first edition was published in London in 1906.

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Reference: W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie (eds), New Zealand verse. London: Walter Scott Publishing Company, 1906.

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Rebecca Rice and Mark Williams, Criticism and the arts – Colonial criticism, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/object/42907/new-zealand-verse (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rebecca Rice and Mark Williams, published 2 October 2013.