Tumble by Joanna Preston
27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Award-winning poet Joanna Preston's beautifully crafted second collection charts a course for the journey from child to woman. Her voice swoops the reader from the ocean depths to the roof of the world, from nascent saints, Viking raids and fallen angels to talking cameras and an astronaut in space. tum ...Show more
Sinking Lessons by Philip Armstrong
27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
The poems in Sinking Lessons portray the vitality of a world full of things and beings we too often disregard, using language that vibrates in harmony with the lively tales it tells - from small, everyday events to stories of shipwrecks and strandings, resurrections and reanimations, arctic adventures a ...Show more
Spindrift by Bob Orr
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Bob Orr is one of our finest poets, admired by academia, by people who don't normally even read poetry - and a wide audience between. This major new volume offers a generous selection of Bob's previously published work, and 36 new and hitherto unseen poems.
The Beautiful Afternoon by Airini Beautrais
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In The Beautiful Afternoon, award-winning poet and short-story writer Airini Beautrais plumbs history, literature, Star Wars, sea hags, beauty products, tarot, swimwear, environmentalism and pole dancing to deliver a virtuoso inquiry into how we become, and change, who we are. Beautrais surveys the man ...Show more
Big Fat Brown Bitch by Tusiata Avia
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She is sitting in a garage in South Auckland with her two brothers and discussing the majestic architecture of atoms. She is playing an audio book of The Power of Positive Thinking at hers ...Show more
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign wor ...Show more
Selected Poems: Harry Ricketts by Harry Ricketts
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Harry Ricketts has written and edited more than thirty books, but it is his poetry that has been the most constant, and the most personal in tone. From his 1989 collection Coming Here – in which he wrote the first of his ‘Secret Life’ poems – to his 2018 collection Winter Eyes, which reviewer Tim Uppert ...Show more
National Anthem by Mohamed Hassan
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
National Anthem is a new poetry collection from award-winning journalist and writer Mohamed Hassan. It charts an intimate course through memories from his childhood and upbringing in Egypt, New Zealand, Turkey and elsewhere to untangle the intersecting traumas of migration, Islamophobia and grief and as ...Show more
Wild Honey by Paula Green
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand women have published poetry for over 150 years. In this landmark book, poet and anthologist Paula Green celebrates and makes connections between 201 of them, from emerging poets and those who are household names to those who have slipped from public view or were not paid the honour they were ...Show more
Are Friends Electric? by Helen Heath
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Are Friends Electric? offers a vivid and moving vision of a past, present and future mediated by technology. The first part of Helen Heath's bold new collection is comprised largely of found poems which emerge from conversations about sex bots, people who feel an intimate love for bridges, fences and bu ...Show more
Katūīvei - Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (Katuivei) by David Eggleton (Editor); Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Mere Taito (Editor)
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation between cultural spaces. This collection of 137 poems by 89 Aotearoa-based Pacific poets explores that navigation. This significant collection ranges from long-established voices ...Show more
Fleur Adcock Collected Poems - (Expanded Edition) by Fleur Adcock
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
This expanded edition of Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems, first published in hardback in 2019, includes her latest collection The Mermaid's Purse, and twenty new poems. It is published simultaneously with Bloodaxe Books (UK) on the occasion of Fleur Adcock's 90th birthday on 10 February 2024.