For the NB of Spring, we've been chatting to lots of authors and, naturally, reading lots of books, so we bring you a fine crop of interviews, book reviews and recommendations throughout this issue. And for the poets among you, young and old, we proudly launch this year's iteration of our Dunedin institution, the Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Robert Burns Poetry competition, and we announce the winners of the National Poetry Day Shape Poetry competition in partnership with Otago-Southland NZ Society of Authors and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature. Plus, we show you can immerse yourself in te reo Māori stories for te Wiki o te Reo with Lingogo, and tap into some of our many online collections available to library members day and night, whenever the mood takes you.