The Blue Coat by Elizabeth Smither
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Whimsical and tender, this poetry collection examines the commonplace and the quirky for resonance, contemplation, and verve. From an out-of-season daffodil and a chipped Limoges plate to a lipstick stain on a poem and a bee being released, it illuminates the poetry in the everyday by focusing on a sing ...Show more
Us, then by Vincent O'Sullivan
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
VINCENT O’SULLIVAN is one of New Zealand’s leading writers, author of the biography of John Mulgan, Long Journey to the Border, the novels Let the River Stand and Believers to the Bright Coast, and many plays and collections of short stories and poems. He is joint editor of the five-volume Letters of Ka ...Show more
The Adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Vela, so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa the Boneman. Follow him down through the centuries on his travels, encountering the single-minde ...Show more
This Change in the Light by Fiona Kidman
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A superb collection of poetry from one of New Zealand's top writers. Fiona Kidman's exquisite and adroit poetry invites the reader into her life, introducing us to her family, friends and places she has loved. In turn it touches our own experiences, offering universal relevance and insight.
Selected Poems by Jenny Bornholdt
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Jenny Bornholdt is the major New Zealand poet of her generation. Her new Selected Poems provides a full representation of her work through nine collections and nearly thirty years. Favourite short poems like 'How to get ahead of yourself while the light still shines' and 'Being a poet' are here alongsid ...Show more
Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English by Edited by: Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan
49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In this pioneering anthology, two leading Māori poets and scholars collect together many Māori poetic voices in English and let flow a wellspring of poetry. From revered established writers as well as exciting new voices, the poems in Puna Wai Kōrero offer a broad picture of Māori poetry in English. The ...Show more
The Land Ballot by Fleur Adcock
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North Island of New Zealand. Their task was to turn this unpromising acreage into a dairy farm. When things ...Show more
Salt River Songs by Sam Hunt
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Salt River Songs is Sam Hunt's latest collection of poems, written over the last few years in his house that sits amongst a grove of totara trees on the Arapaoa, one of the five main salt rivers of the Kaipara Harbour. As always, his unflinchingly honest, elegiac and moving poems roam around familiar th ...Show more
Tail of the Taniwha by Meredith Courtney Sina
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Tail of the Taniwha is a collection of short stories by writer, poet and playwright Courtney Sina Meredith that builds on the themes and ideas of her signature publications, Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick and the award-winning play, Rushing Dolls. Tail of the Taniwha pushes at the boundaries of writ ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The Collected Poems of Alistair Te Ariki Campbell is the definitive edition of one of the most important bodies of work in New Zealand poetry. Based on a spiral-bound manuscript entitled ‘Complete Poems 1947–2007’ found among Campbell’s papers after his death, this is his most substantial collection to ...Show more
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog... or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert... this is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness... heartbreaking and charged with trees.. ...Show more
Night Fishing by Brian Turner
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In these new poems about friendship, mortality and home, Brian Turner asks how we can face the truths and uncertainties of our experiences and how we can live with them. Night Fishing is defined by Turner's unmistakable wit and feeling, precision and insight.