The Montana New Zealand Book Awards winners were announced yesterday. The Medals went to Novel About My Wife (for Fiction or Poetry) and Rita Angus: An Artist's Life (for Non-fiction).

The Montana NZ Book Awards finalists are all held at Massey Library. Many are currently on display in the New Zealand & Pacific room at Turitea Library. View the complete list in the Catalogue, or click on the covers below to request them.

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Update 26/07/09: And the winners are... The Rocky Shore for the Poetry award, and Everything Talks for the Best First Book Award for Poetry. View the judges' comments.
This Friday, 24 July, is Montana Poetry Day. Check out our poetry books by browsing the shelves in the 811s (American poetry) or the 821s (other English language poetry) - both in the general and the New Zealand collections. Or take a look through this list of New Zealand poetry - narrow it down by topic with the tag cloud.

Feel free to contribute a poem under comments. "There was a young student from Massey..."

The winners of the Poetry categories of the Montana NZ Book Awards will be announced on Poetry day - we'll keep you posted. The finalists, all held by Massey Library, are: