The National Library has announced Chris Tse as the New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2022–2024.

As Poet Laureate, Chris Tse will take poetry to new places and new readers and new writers around Aotearoa – we’re going to love watching him do it,' says Sam Elworthy, director of Auckland University Press. 

'He'll be the most amazing poet laureate! In three extraordinary poetry collections, up on stage with the Show Ponies, and growing the New Zealand literature pond with the Out Here anthology, Chris brings open eyes and an open heart, a fresh voice and a cutting wit.' 

Te Pouhuaki National Librarian Rachel Esson described Chris’s appointment as recognition of 'a poet leading a generational and cultural shift in the reach and appreciation of poetry in Aotearoa.'

The AUP team is proud to publish Chris's work, from this year's Super Model Minority and last year's Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa (edited with Emma Barnes), to early work in He's So Masc, How To Be Dead in a Year of Snakes and AUP New Poets 4.

For more information on the poet laureateship, click here.