'This is poetry that is emphatic in its capacity to endure.
It is the song playing on the car wireless, which greets
the first-responders at the scene of a crash. It is witness
and black-box . . . Wes Lee's collection strips sentiment
right down to its agonised nerves. It is the brutal, beautiful
crash-landing into the world, the terror of a newsfeed,
the animal who has 'seen too much: imprinted / on her retinas'
. . . Pain is something to carry, and Lee carries it elegantly,
and with fierce instinct. The determination is dogged, vital,
and excruciating . . . In a literary scene increasingly
fronted by the gaudy and the cynical, these words quake
the pages with their truth.' — Elizabeth Morton,
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021, Massey
University Press
~
'So much to consider, marvel at and re-read... these
poems are brief and fleeting insights to a far-reaching world.'
— Siobhan Harvey, Landfall Review Online,
July 2020, Otago University Press
~
'One of the best reading experiences I have had this year.'
- John Levy (Silence Like Another Name, 2020)
'In a beautifully coherent cycle of 20 poems, Lee explores
the memory of childhood trauma in its bodily immediacy.
Unembarrassed, she speaks it aloud.' - Elisabeth Kumar
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020,
Massey University Press
'Shooting Gallery is stunning. The body is prime.
And although throughout the collection pain
and indignity are often a given, there is also
a glorying in the physical, the sensual...
poems that punch the air celebrating survival.'
- Carolyn McCurdie – Takahe Magazine:90
‘There's real depth, complexity and darkness
to this chapbook of five stories. If you like the kind
of stories that David Lynch makes - dark, human stories
with an air of strangeness then this will be
way up your street. The quality here is outstanding.'
- Dr. Mark Ellis (Amazon uk)
'Prism', Heroines: An Anthology of Poetry Vol. 5, (ed. Sarah Nicholson), Neo Perennial Press, October 2024, New South Wales, Australia ISBN 978-0994645364
'Two Poems', NOON: journal of the Short Poem, Issue 26, (ed. Philip Rowland), NOON Press, September 2024, Tokyo, Japan ISSN 2188-2967
'On Shrouded Verandahs', Australian Poetry Journal 13.1, (guest eds., Sara M. Saleh and Autumn Royal), (Cover art by Betty Muffler), Australian Poetry, August 2024, The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, Australia ISSN 2203-7519
'Two Poems', being: The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize Anthology 2023, (ed. Jen Webb), International Poetry Institute, The University of Canberra, March 2024, Canberra, Australia ISBN 9781740000000
'My Mother's Skin', Landfall 247, (ed. Lynley Edmeades), Otago University Press, May 2024, Otago, New Zealand ISBN 9781990048777
'Two Poems', NOON: journal of the Short Poem, Issue 25, (ed. Philip Rowland), NOON Press, April 2024, Tokyo, Japan ISSN 2188-2967
'Possession', 2024 Free Verse Prize, The Poetry Society, April 2024, London, United Kingdom
'Four Poems', Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024, (ed. Tracey Slaughter), Massey University Press, March 2024, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 9781991016706
'Two Views of a Mouse', The Dunedin Unesco City of Literature Robert Burns Competition 2023, Otago Daily Times, January 25, 2024, Dunedin
'Fingerprint', Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2024 Annual, Aesthetica Magazine, December 2023, York, United Kingdom ISSN 2048-8777
'Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2023', Landfall 246, (ed. Lynley Edmeades), Otago University Press, November 2023, Otago, New Zealand ISBN 9781990048647
'Two Poems', Meniscus, Vol 11, Issue 2, (eds. Jen Webb and Ginna Brock), Australasian Association of Writing Programs, November 2022, University of Canberra, Australia ISSN 2202-8862
'i. core', fourW thirty-four, (ed. David Gilbey), Booranga Writers Centre, Charles Sturt University, November 2023, New South Wales, Australia ISBN 978-0-9942020-2-4
'amphitheatre', a liminal gathering, (ed. Iona Winter), Elixir & Star Press, November 2023, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
‘Two Poems’, NOON: journal of the Short Poem, Issue 24, (ed. Philip Rowland), NOON Press, October 2023, Tokyo, Japan ISSN 2188-2967
'Two Poems', Westerly, 68:1, (ed. Catherine Noske and Lucy Dougan), The University of Western Australia, July 2023, Perth, Australia
‘Botanical’, Fast Fibres Poetry 10, (eds. Piet Nieuwland & Olivia Macassey), Fast Fibres Poetry Collective, July 2023, Northland, New Zealand ISSN 2382-1507
'Daybreak', Abridged: 0: 94: Severin, (eds. Gregory McCartney and Susanna Galbraith), Abridged Literary Journal, July 2023, Belfast, Northern Ireland
'A Naked Wish', Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023, (ed. Tracey Slaughter), Massey University Press, March 2023, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 9781991016355
'Whitby', The AUB International Poetry Prize Anthology 2022, (ed, Elizabeth Woodgate), January 2023, Arts University of Bournemouth, United Kingdom
'Retinal Camera', Mayhem, Issue 10, (Guest eds. Elizabeth Morton and Dadon Rowell), University of Waikato, December 2022, Aotearoa ISSN 2382-0322
'Wearing Today', Turbine | Kapohau, 2022 (eds. Nafanua Purcell Kersel, Jackie Lee Morrison, Jenny Nimon), International Institute of Modern Letters, December 2022, Victoria University/Te Herenga Waka, Wellington
'Delia' and 'I Suppose Poems Could Be Miniature Rooms', Heroines: an anthology of short fiction and poetry, Volume 4, (ed. Sarah Nicholson), Neo Perennial Press, December 2022, New South Wales, Australia ISBN 978-0994645364
'Hyacinths', Abridged 0: 92: The Violet Hour, (eds. Gregory McCartney and Susanna Galbraith), Abridged Literary Journal, December 2022, Belfast, Northern Ireland
'If You had Died Slowly', fourW, thirty-three, (ed. David Gilbey), December 2022, Booranga Writers Centre, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia ISBN 978-0-9942020-2-4
'Our pasts escape in dreams and cause us not to forget', Poetry of Encounter: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology, (eds. Anne M. Carson and Rose Lucas), Liquid Amber Press, December 2022, Melbourne, Australia ISBN 978-0-6450449-7-3
‘Three poems’, Blackmail Press, Issue 45, (ed. Doug Poole), Blackmail Press, November 2022, Auckland, New Zealand ISSN 1176-4791
'How They Live Now', The Stinging Fly Podcast, (Presenters: Susannah Dickey & Nicole Flattery), September 2022, The Stinging Fly, Dublin, Ireland
'Thinking About My Corpse', You Again: A Book of Love-Hate Stories, (eds. Kirsten Irving and Jon Stone), Sidekick Books, September 2022, London, United Kingdom ISBN 978-1-909560-30-7
'In Magazines', The North, Issue 68, (guest eds. Andrew McMillan and Stephanie Sy-Quia), The Poetry Business, September 2022, Sheffield, United Kingdom ISSN 0269-9885
‘Three Poems’, NOON: Journal of the Short Poem, Summer Issue 21/22, (ed. Philip Rowland), NOON Press, August 2022, Tokyo, Japan ISSN 2188-2967
'Four Sonnets', The WEE Book of Sonnets, (ed. Jack Caradoc), Dreich Publishing, July 2022, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland ISSN 2633 8998
'To Squander Life', Meniscus, Vol 10, Issue 1, (ed. Jen Webb and Deb Wain), Australasian Association of Writing Programs, June 2022, University of Canberra, Australia ISSN 2202-8862
'Women's Studies circa 1986', Southword, Issue 42, (ed. Patrick Cotter), Munster Literary Centre, June 2022, Cork, Ireland ISBN 978-1905002870
'The Terrific Beating of My Heart', Best New Zealand Poems 2021, (ed. Kate Camp), International Institute of Modern Letters, March 2022, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand ISSN 1175-8988
'What Remains', We’re All In It Together: Poems for a DisUnited Kingdom, (eds. Michael Stewart, Steve Ely & Kayleigh Campbell), Grist Books, University of Huddersfield, March 2022, United Kingdom
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022, Kete: New books from Aotearoa, reviewed by Erica Stretton, March 2022, New Zealand
Featured Poet, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022, (ed. Tracey Slaughter), Massey University Press, March 2022, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 9781991151117
'A sugarsticky girl', Breach of all Size: Small stories on Ulysses, love and Venice, (eds. Michelle Elvy and Marco Sanzogni), The Cuba Press, February 2022, Wellington, New Zealand ISBN: 978-1-98-859553-5
'After the Funeral: Three Paperweights', Skylight 47, Issue 15, (eds. Bernie Crawford, Nicki Griffin, and Ruth Quinlan), Skylight 47, January 2022, Galway, Ireland
'The Terrific Beating of My Heart', & 'Here', Mayhem, Issue 9, (Guest eds. Stephanie Christie and Mark Prisco), University of Waikato, December 2021, New Zealand ISSN 2382-0322
'To the Middle Child Who Died', Turbine | Kapohau, 2021 (eds. Zoe Higgins, Joe Parker, and Charlotte Doyle),International Institute of Modern Letters, December 2021, Victoria University, Wellington
'Cicadas', Up Flynn Road, across Cook Strait, through the Magellanic Cloud, (ed. Norman P. Franke), Orplid Press, December 2021, New Zealand ISBN 978-0-473-59916-4
'A girl dies each night on TV', Not Very Quiet: 2017-2021, (eds. Moya Pacey and Sandra Renew), Recent Work Press, Canberra, Australia ISBN 9780645180800
'A book is beauty: a book is a shelf, a wall, a home', More than a roof: Housing, in poetry and prose, (eds. Adrienne Jansen, Joan Begg, Rebecca Chester, Wesley Hollis, Roman Ratcliff), Landing Press, November 2021, Wellington, New Zealand ISBN ISBN: 978-0-473-59362-9
'University', Landfall 242, (ed. Lynley Edmeades), Otago University Press, November 2021, Otago, New Zealand ISBN 9781990048111
'Objects', Abridged 0: 78: Judgement, (eds, Gregory McCartney and Susanna Galbraith), Abridged, September 2021, Northern Ireland
'Weighted' & 'Nothing Ironic', Fresh Ink: A Collection Of Voices From Aotearoa New Zealand 2021, (ed. Bronwyn Calder), Cloud Ink Press, September 2021, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 9780473572785
‘Airbnb Weekend’, Fast Fibres Poetry 8, (eds. Piet Nieuwland & Olivia Macassey), Fast Fibres Poetry Collective, August 2021, Northland, New Zealand ISSN 2382-1507
'New Year: Discharged', Poetry and Covid, (eds. Anthony Caleshu and Rory Waterman), University of Plymouth and Nottingham Trent University, July 2, United Kingdom
'And I Suppose Poems Could Be Miniature Rooms (each time you begin with the hope of creation)', Landfall 241, (ed. Emma Neale), Otago University Press, May 2021, Otago, New Zealand ISBN 9781990048012
'New Year: Discharged', Love In The Time Of Covid: A Chronicle of a Pandemic, (eds. Witi Ihimaera & Michelle Elvy), May 2021, Dunedin, New Zealand
'I had never seen you so open', NZ Poetry Shelf: Ten poems about clouds, (ed. Paula Green), April 2021, Auckland, New Zealand
'Again', Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021, (ed. Tracey Slaughter), Massey University Press, March 2021, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 978-0-9951354-2-0
'By the Lapels', reviewed by Elizabeth Morton, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021, (ed. Tracey Slaughter), Massey University Press, March 2021, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 978-0-9951354-2-0
‘Four Poems’, NOON: journal of the Short Poem, Issue 17/18, (ed. Philip Rowland), NOON Press, December 2020, Tokyo, Japan ISSN 2188-2967
'The great dark life we intuit', Abridged 0 — 67: Nyx, (eds, Gregory McCartney and Susanna Galbraith), Abridged, December 2020, Northern Ireland
'Dreams of Siberia', Meniscus, Vol 8, Issue 2, (ed. Paul Hetherington), Australasian Association of Writing Programs, December 2020, University of Canberra, Australia ISSN 2202-8862
'Striking the Pounamu: 100 line poem from 100 poets from Aotearoa New Zealand', Takahē 100, (edited and arranged by Jeni Curtis and Gail Ingram), Takahe Collective, December 2020, Christchurch, New Zealand
'Communion', fourW, thirty-one: New Writing, (ed. David Gilbey), December 2020, Booranga Writers Centre, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia ISBN 978-0-9942020-2-4
'Precipice' & 'Boom!', Mayhem, Issue 8, (Guest ed. Michael Steven), University of Waikato, December 2020, New Zealand ISSN 2382-0322
'The Field: Persephone', Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2021, Aesthetica Magazine, December 2020, York, United Kingdom ISSN 2048-8777
‘I had never seen you so open', The New Zealand Poetry Society Anthology 2020, (ed. Raewyn Alexander), The New Zealand Poetry Society, December 2020, Wellington, New Zealand ISBN 9780473300784
'The Field: Persephone', Oscen Issue 3: Myths, (eds. Janna Tay, Anuja Mitra), Oscen Literary Journal, November 2020, Auckland, New Zealand
'Antarctica: As Seen On TV', Climate Matters: The Climate Crisis & Capitalism (eds. Virginia Baily, Sally Flint and Mike Quille), Riptide Journal, November 2020, University of Exeter, United Kingdom ISBN: 978-1-912710-31-7
'Three Poems', Otoliths, Issue fifty-nine: southern spring, (ed. Mark Young), October 2020, Queensland, Australia ISSN 1833-623X
'I Presented at Your Surgery Still Wearing the Opaque Wristband', Not Very Quiet, Issue 7: Memoir, (guest edited by Anne Casey), Not Very Quiet, September 2020, Canberra, Australia ISSN 2208-4126
'We Watch True Crime', Banshee, Issue #10, (eds. Laura Cassidy, Claire Hennessy, and Eimear Ryan), September 2020, Banshee Literary Journal, Ireland ISBN: 978-0-9956550-6-5
‘Funeral’, Fast Fibres Poetry 7, (eds. Piet Nieuwland & Olivia Macassey), Fast Fibres Poetry Collective, August 2020, Northland, New Zealand ISSN 2382-1507
‘By the Lapels', reviewed by Siobhan Harvey, 'Cerebral Punch', Landfall Review Online, Otago University Press, July 2020, Otago, New Zealand
'Suddenly the Moon', Landfall 239, (ed. Emma Neale), Otago University Press, June 2020, Otago, New Zealand ISBN 9781988531731
'A Letter To The Woman Masquerading As Me', Abridged 0: 19: Eris, (eds, Gregory McCartney and Susanna Galbraith), Abridged, May 2020, Northern Ireland
'The Milestones', The Same Havoc: The Selkie Anthology, Vol 2, (ed. Sam Le Butt), The Selkie, May 2020, Edinburgh, Scotland
'Praying Mantis', Meniscus, Vol 8, Issue 1, (ed. Gail Pittaway & Jen Webb), Australasian Association of Writing Programs, May 2020, University of Canberra, Australia ISSN 2202-8862
'By the Lapels reviewed by Patricia Prime in Takahē 98, Takahe Collective, April 2020, Christchurch, New Zealand
'By the Lapels', Best New Zealand Poems 2019, (ed. Hera Lindsay Bird), International Institute of Modern Letters, March 2020, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand ISSN 1175-8988
'Body, Remember' reviewed by Elisabeth Kumar in the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020, (ed. Johanna Emeney), Massey University Press, March 2020, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 978-0-9951229-3-2
'Therapy', Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020, (ed. Johanna Emeney), Massey University Press, March 2020, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 978-0-9951229-3-2
'The Field', Abridged 0: 59: Persephone, (eds, Gregory McCartney and Susanna Galbraith), Abridged, March 2020, Belfast, Northern Ireland
'First Day Out at the Supermarket', Not Very Quiet, Issue 6, (eds. Moya Pacey, Sandra Renew), Not Very Quiet, March 2020, Canberra, Australia ISSN 2208-4126
'They say we made it up' and other poems, Poethead, (ed. Chris Murray), Poethead, February 10, 2020, Ireland
'Three Poems', Otoliths, Issue fifty-six: southern summer, (ed. Mark Young), February 2020, Queensland, Australia ISSN 1833-623X
'One Summer: Orcas in the Bay', The Beach Hut, January 2020, United Kingdom
'Bar-bright', fourW, thirty: Pearl (ed. David Gilbey), December 2019, Booranga Writers Centre, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia ISBN 978-0-9942020-2-4
'New Year's Day: Observation Unit', Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2020, Aesthetica Magazine, December 2019, York, United Kingdom ISSN 2048-8777
‘I Never Forgot’ & 'Pressure Valve', The Perfect Weight of Blankets at Night, (ed. Raewyn Alexander), The New Zealand Poetry Society, November 2019, Wellington, New Zealand ISBN 9780473300784
'Calling In' & 'The Girl and the Field #2', Mayhem, Issue 7, (ed. Tracey Slaughter), University of Waikato, October 2019, New Zealand ISSN 2382-0322
'I've Let A Man', Silence: The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize Anthology 2019, (ed. Shane Strange), International Poetry Institute, The University of Canberra, October 2019, Canberra, Australia ISBN 9781740884884
'A Year Ago' & 'I like the people on TV better', Pink Cover Zine #5: Lawless, (guest ed. Kristen de Kline), September 2019, Sydney, Australia
'Trapdoor', Heroines: an anthology of short fiction and poetry, Volume II, (eds. Sarah Nicholson and Caitlin White), Neo Perennial Press, September 2019, New South Wales, Australia ISBN 978-0994645326
'Mrs Goforth!', Australian Poetry Journal, 9.1 - 'resist!', (guest ed. John Kinsella), Australian Poetry, September 2019, The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, Australia ISSN 2203-7519
‘Two Poems’, NOON: journal of the Short Poem, Issue 15, (ed. Philip Rowland), NOON Press, August 2019, Tokyo, Japan ISSN 2188-2967
‘Dolls’, Fast Fibres Poetry 6, (eds. Piet Nieuwland & Olivia Macassey), Fast Fibres Poetry Collective, August 2019, Northland, New Zealand ISSN 2382-1507
'Surfers', Another North, (ed. Jessica White), August 2019, Liverpool, United Kingdom
'Body, Remember by Wes Lee', The North - The Alive & Kicking Issue, The Poetry Business, August 2019, Sheffield, United Kingdom ISSN 0269-9885
'Nub', Geometry, Issue 5, (eds. Sophie van Waardenburg & Harley Hern), Geometry Literary Journal, July 2019, Auckland, New Zealand
'I'd Take the Spade', Strix, Issue 7, (eds. Ian Harker, Andrew Lambeth, and SJ Bradley), July 2019, Leeds, United Kingdom
The Sky Falls Down: An Anthology of Loss, (eds. Dr Gina Mercer and Dr Terry Whitebeach), Ginninderra Press, June 2019, Port Adelaide, South Australia ISBN 971760417307
'Between Skyscrapers', Story Cities, (eds. Ram Kehal, Rosamund Davies and Cherry Potts), Arachne Press, June 2019, London, United Kingdom ISBN: 978-1-909208-78-0
Book review - Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019, reviewed by Emma Shi, The Reader, June 2019, The Booksellers New Zealand Blog
'Body, You Let Me Down', Oscen, Issue 2, (eds. Janna Tay, Anuja Mitra), Oscen Literary Journal, June 2019, Auckland, New Zealand
Book review - Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019, reviewed by Harry Ricketts, Nine to Noon, June 4, 2019, Radio New Zealand National
'Trajectory', and 'Night Shift', NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems, (ed. Philip Rowland), Isobar Press, June 2019, Tokyo, Japan ISBN 978-4-907359-26-3
'New Year's Day: Observation Unit', Mimicry Journal, Issue 5, (eds. Holly Hunter & Ollie Hutton), Mimicry, May 2019, Wellington, New Zealand ISSN 2463-6460
'Recovery Room', The Selkie, (eds. Huriyah T. Quadri and Paige Smith), The Selkie, May 2019, Edinburgh, Scotland
'Two Poems', Smithereens Literary Magazine, Issue 3, (ed. Kenneth Keating), Smithereens Press, May 2019, Cork, Ireland ISSN 2565-649X
'New Age', Landfall 237, (ed. Emma Neale), Otago University Press, May 2019, Otago, New Zealand ISBN 9781988531731
'The Gateway to Dark'& 'InterCity Bus - Dunedin', Pink Cover Zine #4: South, (ed. Samantha Trayhurn), May 2019, Sydney, Australia
'Three Poems', Otoliths, Issue fifty-three, (ed. Mark Young), May 2019, Queensland, Australia ISSN 1833-623X
'Sequelae', Meniscus, Vol 7, Issue 1, (ed. Jen Webb), Australasian Association of Writing Programs, April 2019, University of Canberra, Australia ISSN 2202-8862
'Before the Glittering Sea of California', Banshee, Issue #8, (eds. Laura Cassidy, Claire Hennessy, and Eimear Ryan), April 2019, Banshee Literary Journal, Ireland ISBN: 978-0-9956550-4-1
'Sand', More of Us, (ed. Adrienne Jansen), Landing Press, March 2019, Wellington, New Zealand ISBN: 9780473463496
'Subject Object: Body, Remember by Wes Lee', Sphinx, (reviewed by Callan Waldron-Hall), Sphinx Poetry Pamphlet Reviews and Features, HappenStance Press, February 2019, Glenrothes, Scotland
'A girl dies each night on TV', Not Very Quiet, Issue 4, (eds. Moya Pacey, Sandra Renew, and K A Nelson), Not Very Quiet, March 2019, Canberra, Australia ISSN 2208-4126
'The Things She Remembers #1' & 'By the Lapels', Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019, (ed. Jack Ross), Massey University Press, March 2019, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 978-0-9941363-5-0
'A Dream I Had', Skylight 47, Issue 11, (eds. Bernie Crawford, Nicki Griffin, and Ruth Quinlan), Skylight 47, January 2019, Galway, Ireland
'Catatonic', Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2019, Aesthetica Magazine, December 2018, York, United Kingdom ISSN 2048-8777
'Everything is Jammed', &'The Girl in the Basement / The Boy in the Basement', Turbine, 18, (eds. Laura Southgate, Alie Benge, and Tim Grgec), International Institute of Modern Letters, December 2018, Victoria University, Wellington
'Brio', Headland, Issue 14, (eds. Laura McNeur and Liesl Nunns), The Maisonette Trust, December 2018, Wellington, New Zealand
'Dennis Nilsen's Dog Bleep', Strix, Issue 5, (eds. Ian Harker, Andrew Lambeth, and SJ Bradley), November 2018, Leeds, UK
'The Split', fourW, twenty-nine, (ed. David Gilbey), November 2018, Booranga Writers Centre, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia ISBN 978-0-9942020-2-4
‘The Undertaker's Assistant’, The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation, (ed. Gail Ingram), The New Zealand Poetry Society, November 2018, Wellington ISBN 9780473300784
'Three Poems', The Fenland Reed, Issue 7, (eds. Jonathan Totman & Elisabeth Sennitt Clough), October 2018, East Anglia, United Kingdom ISSN 2396-7595
‘Emigre’ & ‘There’s a photo I’d like to see again’, Pink Cover Zine #3: Mementos, (ed. Ramon Loyola), September 2018, Sydney, Australia
‘Children of Men’, The Lampeter Review, Issue 16, (ed. Kathy Miles), University of Wales, Trinity St David, August 2018, Lampeter, Wales, United Kingdom ISSN 2054-8257
‘To Die and Die Again’, & ‘Drawing’, BONSAI: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand, (eds. Michelle Elvy, Frankie McMillan, James Norcliffe), Canterbury University Press, September 2018, Christchurch, New Zealand ISBN 978-1-927145-98-2
'Home Movies', 34 Short Stories: The Dan Davin Literary Award Winners, (foreword. Rebecca Amundsen), The Dan Davin Literary Foundation, Pouakai Books, August 2018, Southland, New Zealand ISBN 9780473449346
‘Farm’, Fast Fibres Poetry 5, (eds. Piet Nieuwland & Olivia Macassey), Fast Fibres Poetry Collective, August 2018, Northland, New Zealand ISSN 2382-1507
‘You wait for your loneliness to be looked upon’, Words for the Wild, (eds. Amanda Oosthuizen & Louise Taylor), Words for the Wild, August 2018, United Kingdom ISBN 978-1-5272-2382-0
‘Delia’, The London Reader: Truth, Lies, & Fiction for a Post-Fact Age, (ed. Alexander H. Maurice), The London Reader, Summer 2018, London, UK
'Wes Lee, Writing (and) the Body': Jen Webb reviews Body, Remember and Shooting Gallery, RABBIT, 24: The LGBTQIA+ Issue, (guest ed. Michael Farrell), RABBIT Poetry Journal, RMIT University, May 2018, Melbourne, Australia ISSN 2200-9868
‘Body, Remember, reviewed by Diane Brown, The Making I Have Made It My Life to be For', Landfall Review Online, Otago University Press, May 2018, Otago, New Zealand
‘How They Live Now’, The Stinging Fly, Issue 38/Volume 2 – Summer 2018, (ed. Sally Rooney), The Stinging Fly Press, May 2018, Dublin, Ireland ISBN 9781906539702
‘A conversation and poem from the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize Finalists: Wes Lee’, Paula Green, NZ Poetry Shelf, (May 2018), Auckland, New Zealand
'One Summer', Takahē Magazine, Issue 92, The Takahē Collective Trust, May 2018, Christchurch, New Zealand
‘Orcas’, The London Reader: Afterwords: Animal Reflections, (ed. Christina Claudia Galego), The London Reader, Spring 2018, London, UK
'Blade Runner 2049', Not Very Quiet, Issue 2, (guest ed. Anita Patel), Not Very Quiet, March 2018, Canberra, Australia ISSN 2208-4126
'My Tough Little James Cagney Stance', Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018, (ed. Jack Ross), Massey University Press, March 2018, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 978-0-9941363-5-0
'Dentist', Queensland Writers Centre Flash Fiction Prize, The Queensland Writers Centre, January 2018, Brisbane, Australia
'Sundays Were a Desert to You', The Northampton Poetry Review, Issue 2, (ed. Tom Harding), January 2018, Northampton, UK ISSN 2515-057X
'Daily Walk', Here Comes Everyone, Vol 6, Issue 2: The Brutal Issue, (eds. Raef Boylan, Mathew Barton), Here Comes Everyone, December 2017, Coventry, UK
'The Takahe Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2017', Takahē Magazine, Issue 91, The Takahē Collective Trust, December 2017, Christchurch, New Zealand
'Airbnb Weekend', fourW, twenty-eight, (ed. David Gilbey), November 2017, Booranga Writers Centre, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia ISBN 978-0-9942020-2-4
'A Funeral', 'Falling in Love', After the Cyclone: The NZPS Poetry Anthology, (ed. Gail Ingram), The New Zealand Poetry Society, November 2017, Wellington ISBN 9780473300784
'You Have Become a Graphic Novel in my Dreams', Offset Journal, Issue 17, (eds. Ian Syson, Lina Bujupi, Pauline Sawyer et al.,), November 2017, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia ISSN 1445-9418
'For Jane', The Fenland Reed, Issue 5, (eds. Jonathan Totman & Mary Livingstone), November 2017, East Anglia, United Kingdom ISSN 2396-7595
'Thank you Sinead', Meniscus, Vol 5, Issue 2, (eds. Jen Webb & Gail Pittaway), Australasian Association of Writing Programs, October 2017, Canberra, Australia ISSN 2202-8862
Body, Remember, Wes Lee, The Lorgnette Series: Eyewear Publishing, September 2017, London, United Kingdom ISBN 978-1-911335-54-2
'Night Reverie', Irises: The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize Anthology 2017, (eds. Monica Carroll and Paul Munden), International Poetry Institute, The University of Canberra, September 2017, Canberra, Australia ISBN 9781740884655
'Shooting Gallery by Wes Lee', Carolyn McCurdie, Takahē Magazine, Issue 90, The Takahē Collective Trust, August 2017, Christchurch, New Zealand
'My Baby', Fresh Ink: A Collection of Voices in Aotearoa, Cloud Ink Press, August 2017, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 9780473400583
'Body, Did You Know?', New Writing Scotland, Issue 35, (eds. Diana Hendry & Susie Maguire), Association for Scottish Literary Studies, The University of Glasgow, August 2017, Glasgow, Scotland ISBN 9781906841300
'You Know I Want', Strix, Issue 1, (eds. Ian Harker & Andrew Lambeth), July 2017, Leeds, UK
'Power of Attorney', Meniscus, Vol 5, Issue 1, (eds. Paul Hetherington & Alice Beecham), Australasian Association of Writing Programs, June 2017, Canberra, Australia ISSN 2202-8862
'People ask me what's it like living in New Zealand?', Demos Journal, Issue 6: Futures, (eds. Emma Cupitt, Aditi Razdan, Mia Sandgren, Odette Shenfield), Australian National University, May 2017, Canberra, Australia
'To Die and Die Again', Landfall 233: The 70th Anniversary Issue, (ed. David Eggleton), Otago University Press, May 2017, Otago, New Zealand ISBN 978187758437
'Karangahape Road Sonnet', Voices from the Cave, (eds. Ron Carey and Dominic Taylor), Revival Press, Limerick Writers' Centre, May 2017, North Munster, Ireland
'The Eloi', Blackmail Press, Issue 42, (ed. Doug Poole), Blackmail Press, March 2017, Auckland, New Zealand ISSN 1176-4791
'Running Naked on the Motorway', I, You, He, She, It: Experiments in Viewpoint, (ed. Simon Crump), Grist Books, University of Huddersfield Press, March 2017, UK ISBN 9781862181427
'The Players Are Dead', Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017, (ed. Jack Ross), Massey University Press, March 2017, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 978-0-9941363-5-0
'You Watch TV Late at Night', Zoomorphic, Issue 7, (eds. Susan Richardson and James Roberts), Zoomorphic Journal, December 2016, Brighton, UK
'Antarctica: As Seen on TV', Driftfish: A Zoomorphic Anthology of Oceanic Life, (eds. Susan Richardson and James Roberts), Zoomorphic Journal, December 2016, Brighton, UK ISBN 978-0-9956436-0-4
'Poker', RABBIT, 19: The Prose Poetry Issue (eds. Cassandra Atherton & Paul Hetherington), RABBIT Poetry Journal, RMIT University, November 2016, Melbourne, Australia ISSN 2200-9868
'Roast Chicken', 'Adaptation', Penguin Days: The NZPS Poetry Anthology, (ed. Laurice Gilbert), The New Zealand Poetry Society, November 2016, Wellington ISBN 9780473300784
'Rear Window', Ten Years On, (ed. Dave Lewis), The International Welsh Poetry Competition 2012-2016, (November 2016), Pontypridd, Wales, UK ISBN 9781326839727
'The Party', The Frogmore Papers, Issue 88, (eds. Jeremy Page, Clare Best, Rachel Playforth and Peter Stewart), Frogmore Press, September 2016, East Sussex, UK ISSN 0956-0106
'A Photograph of Lovers in a Field Circa 1945', Skylight 47, Issue 7, (eds. Bernie Crawford, Nicki Griffin, Marie Cadden and Ruth Quinlan), Skylight 47, September 2016, Galway, Ireland
'Sanatorium', Atlas Journal, Issue 01, (ed. Helen Ker), September 2016, Auckland, New Zealand ISSN 2463-6676
'Thirsty', Shibboleth & other stories, (ed. Laurie Steed), Margaret River Press, August 2016, Perth, Australia ISBN 9780994316783
'Beached Whale', 'Skyscraper', Demos Journal, Issue 4: Boundaries, (eds. Odette Shenfield, Jemimah Cooper et al.), Australian National University, July 2016, Canberra, Australia
'If it Could be Served', The Poet’s Quest for God: 21st Century Poems of Faith, Doubt, and Wonder, (eds. Fr. Oliver Brennan and Todd Swift, with Kelly Davio and Cate Myddleton-Evans), Eyewear Publishing, July 2016, London, United Kingdom ISBN 978-1908998255
'Manta', The Elbow Room Broadsheet, (eds. Rosie Sherwood & Zelda Chappel), As Yet Untitled, June 2016, United Kingdom
'Tap Tap', 'A letter to the woman masquerading as me', Shot Glass Journal, Issue 19, (ed. Mary-Jane Grandinetti), Muse-Pie Press, June 2016, USA
'The Story Has Overtaken Me', Remembering Oluwale, (ed. S.J. Bradley), Valley Press, May 2016, Yorkshire, United Kingdom ISBN 9781908853714
Shooting Gallery, Wes Lee, Steele Roberts, May 2016, Wellington, New Zealand ISBN 978-0-947493-23-3
'Shooting Gallery', 'Deluge', Meniscus, Vol 4, Issue 1: Beyond the Divide, (ed. Dallas John Baker), Australasian Association of Writing Programs, May 2016, Canberra, Australia ISSN 2202-8862
'Christmas Email', Poetry & Place Anthology, (eds. Ashley Capes & Brooke Linford), Close-Up Books, April 2016, Victoria, Australia ISBN 9780994528926
'Fire-walker', Landfall 231: Aotearoa New Zealand Arts & Letters, (ed. David Eggleton), Otago University Press, May 2016, Otago, New Zealand ISBN 978187758437
'Last Train', NOON: Journal of the Short Poem, Issue 11, (ed. Philip Rowland), NOON Press, April 2016, Tokyo, Japan ISSN 2188-2967
'Gilda', The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016, (eds. Kelly Davio & Todd Swift), Eyewear Publishing, March 2016, London, United Kingdom. ISBN: 9781908998552
Panning for Poems, Issue 5 (eds. Geraldine O’Kane & Colin Dardis), Pen Points Press, Poetry NI, March 2016, Belfast, Northern Ireland
'Around 6', 'Visualisation', JAAM, Issue 33: Small Departures, (guest eds. Kiri Piahana-Wong and Rosetta Allan), JAAM Collective, December 2015, Wellington, New Zealand ISSN 1173-633X
'Glass Eye', The Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2015, Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, Oxford Brookes University, December 2015, Oxford, United Kingdom
'A Simple A to B', Blackmail Press, Issue 41, (guest ed. Michalia Arathimos), Blackmail Press, December 2015, Auckland, New Zealand ISSN 1176-4791
'You Know You Will Never Ride a Bike Again', The Troubadour Poetry Prize, December 2015, The Troubadour, Old Brompton Road, Earls Court, London, UK http://www.coffeehousepoetry.org/poems/troubadour-poetry-prize-2015
'Sand', 'Renovations', Scattered Feathers: The NZPS Poetry Anthology, (ed. Laurice Gilbert), The New Zealand Poetry Society, November 2015, Wellington ISBN 9780473300784
'Eveyone I Know', Cordite, 51.1: Umami, (ed. Luke Davies), Cordite Poetry Review, October 2015, Australia ISSN 1328-2107
'Lifesaving', The London Magazine Poetry Prize, October 1, 2015, London, UK
'Swansongs', The Poet of the Year Anthology, Friends of the Canterbury Festival & The University of Kent, October 2015, United Kingdom
'Tears in the Rain', 'On the Road's Shoulder at Reikorangi', Underneath: The University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize Anthology, (eds. Owen Bullock & Niloofar Fanaiyan), International Poetry Institute, The University of Canberra, September 2015, Canberra, Australia ISBN 9781740883993
'Farm', We Society Poetry Anthology, (ed. Dr. Jack Ross), Printable Reality, August 2015, Te Henga Studios, Auckland ISBN 9780473321970
'After a Funeral: Three Paperweights', Verandah, Issue 30, Deakin University, August 2015, Melbourne, Australia ISSN 1448-4900
'Ointment', Westerly, 60:1, (eds. Lucy Dougan & Paul Clifford), The University of Western Australia, July 2015, Perth, Australia ISBN 9780987318046
'A man dies drunk one night fishing for his keys', 'Daughter', NOON: Journal of the Short Poem, Issue 9, (ed. Philip Rowland), NOON Press, June 2015, Tokyo, Japan ISSN 2188-2967
'Spectre', Meniscus, Vol 3, Issue 1, (eds. Paul Munden, Jen Webb, Elizabeth Colbert), Australasian Association of Writing Programs, April 2015, Canberra, Australia ISSN 2202-8862
'Recovery Room', The Troubadour Poetry Prize, December 2014, The Troubadour, Old Brompton Road, Earls Court, London, UK http://www.coffeehousepoetry.org/poems/troubadour-poetry-prize-2014
'You wait for your loneliness to be looked upon', Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2015, Aesthetica Magazine Ltd, December 2014, York, United Kingdom ISSN 2048-8777
'Going to Bed With Friends', HISSAC Winners Anthology: The Last Ten Years, (ed. Clio Gray), Highlands and Islands Short Story Association, December 2014, Balintore, Scotland ISBN 9781505809022
'Eight Transitions', Poetry d’Amour 2015, (ed. Nandi Chinna), WA Poets, November 2014, Inglewood, Western Australia ISBN 9780987363336
'These Last Desires', Sweet As – Contemporary Short Stories by New Zealanders, (eds. Wendy Moore & Blair Polly), Sweet As Short Story Project, October 2014, Wellington, New Zealand ISBN 9780473293482
'Furious Type', 'Cowry Shell Curtain', Take Back Our Sky: The NZPS Anthology, (ed. Nola Borell), The New Zealand Poetry Society, November 2014, Wellington, New Zealand ISBN 9780473300784
'Guernica', Blackmail Press, Issue 37, (ed. Doug Poole), Blackmail Press, October 2014, Auckland, New Zealand ISSN 1176-4791
'Morning Light', Dazzled: The University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize Anthology, (ed. Owen Bullock), International Poetry Studies Institute, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, The University of Canberra, September 2014, Canberra, Australia ISBN 9781740883993
'After a Death: A Tenderness of Thought', Hildegard – Visions & Inspiration, (ed. Gabriel Griffin), Wyvern Works, September 2014, Italy
'The Late Life Orphan', Landfall 227: Vital Signs, (ed. David Eggleton), Otago University Press, May 2014, Otago, New Zealand ISBN 9781877578465
'Tiny Father', Westerly, 59: 1, (eds. Delys Bird & Tony Hughes-d’Aeth), The University of Western Australia, June 2014, Perth, Australia ISBN 9780987318046
'The Gloaming', The Trouble With Flying, (eds. Richard Rossiter & Susan Midalia), Margaret River Press, May 2014, Perth, Australia ISBN 9780987561527
'Saul', The Sleepers Almanac, No. 9, (eds. Zoe Dattner & Louise Swinn), Sleepers Publishing, April 2014, Melbourne, Australia ISBN 9780987507006
Cowboy Genes, Wes Lee, Grist Books, University of Huddersfield Press, March 2014, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom ISBN 9780956309938
'Wake Moon', Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2014, Aesthetica Magazine Ltd., December 2013, York, United Kingdom ISSN 2048-8777
'Outside the window the wild world still calls', The Troubadour Poetry Prize, December 2013, The Troubadour, Old Brompton Road, Earls Court, London, United Kingdom http://www.coffeehousepoetry.org/poems/troubadour-poetry-prize-2013
'Forest', 'Egress', 4th Floor: 20th Anniversary Edition, (ed. Hinemoana Baker), Whitireia Polytechnic, November 2013, Wellington, New Zealand http://4thfloorjournal.co.nz
'Fortune', Given An Ordinary Stone: The NZPS Anthology, (ed. Owen Bullock), The New Zealand Poetry Society, November 2013, Wellington, New Zealand ISBN 9780473262334
'Baby Bird @ Christmas', JAAM, 31, (eds. Claire Needam & Harvey Molloy), JAAM Collective, November 2013, Wellington, New Zealand ISSN 1173-633X
'Gaudi', 100 Tanka by 100 Poets of Australia & New Zealand, (eds. Amelia Fielden, Beverley George & Patricia Prime), Ginninderra Press, October 2013, Canberra, Australia ISBN 9781740278317
'Sea Edge', Verandah, Issue 28, Deakin University, September 2013, Melbourne, Australia ISSN 1448-4900
'GPS', Hue & Cry, Issue No. 7: Deep, (guest ed. Ashleigh Young), July 2013, Wellington, New Zealand ISSN 1178-2374
'Karangahape Road Sonnet', Landfall 225, (ed. David Eggleton), Otago University Press, June 2013, Otago, New Zealand ISBN 978187758437
'Conch', Riptide Anthology, Issue 9, (eds. Ginny Bailey & Sally Flint), Riptide, February 2013, Exeter, United Kingdom ISBN 9780957551206
'Gilda', Magma, Issue 55: The Soul & The Machine, (eds. Tim Kindberg & Karen McCarthy Woolf), Magma Poetry, United Kingdom ISSN 1352-9269
'From the North', Mirehouse Poetry Prize 2013, Words by the Water Festival, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, United Kingdom http://www.mirehouse.com/indexphpoption=com_content&task=view&id=22&itemid=35
'Bird', 'Crab Nebula', Poets Corner, March 2013, University of Western Australia, The Cultural Precinct, Perth, Australia http://www.trove.arts.uwa.edu.au/poets-corner
'Tokyo', Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2013, Aesthetica Magazine Ltd, December 2012, York, United Kingdom ISSN 2048-8777
'Confluence', Journeys Through Fire: The Lancelot Andrewes Awards, (Introduction by Carol Ann Duffy), November 2012, Southward Cathedral, London, United Kingdom
'Edi', New Writing Dundee, 7, (eds. Kirsty Gunn & Zoe Venditozzi), Dundee University Press, October 2012, Dundee, Scotland ISBN 9781845861797
‘Confluence’ appears in ‘Journeys through Fire’. An anthology of the winning and shortlisted poems from the Lancelot Andrewes Awards 2012, judged by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
‘Sunflowers’, a powerful poem, capturing the true horror of the protests in the Long Kesh incarcerations. A merciless, no-holds-barred poem with a final image almost out of a Francis Bacon painting.’ – Christopher North
‘Sunflowers’ appears in ‘Bestiario’ edited by Gabriel Griffin. ‘Bestiario’ is an anthology of winning and selected poems from the Poetry on the Lake XII International Poetry Competition 2012. Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke will launch ‘Bestiario’ at the Poetry on the Lake festival (September 27 – 30) on Isola San Giulio, the antique island on Lake Orta, northern Italy. ‘Bestiario’ can be purchased at ilmiobro.it