Tse named 2025 Malouf poet-in-residence

Aotearoa New Zealand poet and editor Chris Tse has been named the 2025 Arts Queensland Malouf poet-in-residence.

Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Tse was Aotearoa New Zealand’s Poet Laureate from 2022 to 24. He is the author of three poetry collections published by Auckland University Press: How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes (winner of the 2016 Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry), HE’S SO MASC, and Super Model Minority (longlisted for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and shortlisted for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry). He co-edited (with Emma Barnes) Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa (AUP, 2021).

Tse will spend December at the Queensland Writers Centre where he will run workshops and open-mics, and write poetry inspired by Queensland. He will also host the Queensland Poetry Awards.

Education and arts minister John-Paul Langbroek said, “We’re delighted to have a poet of Mr Tse’s reputation share his talents and insights with the Queensland writing community.”

Previous poets-in-residence include Joelle Taylor, Selina Tusitala Marsh, and Yona Harvey.

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