This just in from the University of Otago Press: Under Flagstaff: An Anthology of Dunedin Poetry selected by Robin Law and Heather Murray, was launched last Friday. It’s a collection that celebrates Dunedin in all its craggy, dour magnificence, with the landscape and other natural glories featuring strongly – ‘especially the weather’…

The collection sounds great, with luminous inclusions from James K. Baxter, Ruth Dallas, Janet Frame, Cilla McQueen, JC Sturm and Hone Tuwhare, as well as some relative newcomers. The poems, interestingly, are ordered geographically, with ‘poems spiralling outwards from the heart of the Octagon with its Robbie Burns statue, to pubs, student flats, the university, beaches, hill-tops, the harbour and beyond.’

Under Flagstaff should be in most bookshops by the end of next week. Further information from Amanda Smith, at amanda.smith@stonebow.otago.ac.nz or phone 03-479 9094.