A selection of front covers from the archive, showing shifts in design since Poetry Nation first appeared in 1973 as an A5 hardback, published biannually. With the exception of  Vol 1, No 4 (top-left), which takes the original schema, the covers shown here are all A4 paperbacks, a format adopted in 1976 when the magazine moved to quarterly publication. (L A)

Volume 1 Number 4 (1975) cover image: W.S. Graham	Volume 4 Number 2 (1978)	Volume 6 Number 2 (1979) cover image: Col Toc
Volume 11 Number 4 (1985)	Volume 16 Number 2 (1989) cover image: Thom Gunn	Volume 17 Number 2 (1990)
Volume 20 Number 4 (1994)	Volume 24 Number 5 (1998) cover image: Ralph Hotere	Volume 32 Number 3 (2006) cover image: Mary Harman