Ngā Wāhine E Toru / Three Women by Glenn Colquhoun
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In this collection of poems Glenn Colquhoun writes to his daughter, former partner, and mother, using the medium of Māori oral poetry. In doing so he explores oriori, karakia, haka, mōteatea, pātere, waiata aroha and waiata tangi. It is a companion volume to Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā, his ...Show more
Detritus of Empire by Robin Peace
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Detritus are the pieces that are left when something or someone breaks, falls apart or is destroyed: gravel from rocks, the organic matter from plants. At the edge of an endangered wetland in Te Ika-a-Māui, Robin Peace writes of what is left of a country colonised not just by people but by the plants an ...Show more
Root Leaf Flower Fruit - A Verse Novel by Bill Nelson
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a head injury after coming off his bike, takes leave from his job and family to prepare her rundown house and farm for sale. As he works, he sifts through what remains of his grandmother’s daily life. Then, afte ...Show more
We’re All Made of Lightning by Khadro Mohamed
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
We’re All Made of Lightning is the debut poetry collection from Wellington-based writer Khadro Mohamed. Mohamed expertly navigates the experience of being a Muslim woman in Aotearoa, bringing us along on her journey of selfhood. Shifting between Aotearoa, Egypt and Somalia, we get a glimpse into her wor ...Show more
Surrender - Poems by Michaela Keeble
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Surrender is Michaela Keeble's remarkable first full-length collection of poems. It responds to the call of indigenous and other radical poets – as well as to the deafening silence in white poetry – to face our colonial past and our increasingly appropriative present. In challenging herself, Michaela's ...Show more
Roar Squeak Purr: A New Zealand Treasury of Animal Poems by Paula Green
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A marvellous menagerie of animal poems for children by New Zealand's best writers - some of them children - selected by star New Zealand poet Paula Green and adorably illustrated by Jenny Cooper.A marvellous menagerie of more than 200 animal poems by Aotearoa's best writers, ROAR SQUEAK PURR shows just ...Show more
Unseasoned Campaigner by Janet Newman
$18.00 NZD
$28.00 (35% off)
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Unseasoned Campaigner is a layered collection exploring the complexities of farming life in Horowhenua. Poet Janet Newman uncovers territory ripe for exploration as she juxtaposes the often troubled aspects of commercial farming –the life and death of animals – with loving family relationships. The coll ...Show more
Stones & Kisses by Peter Rawnsley
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Peter Rawnsley writes of movement even as his own world becomes increasingly still. He is acutely aware of the natural world around him – its softness and light as well as its brutality – from Karehana Bay to Castlepoint to Tijuana, and of his own place in it. He nods to the inevitable passing of time, ...Show more
Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā by Glenn Colquhoun
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In this collection of poems Glenn Colquhoun explores a range of Pākehā oral poetic forms; sea shanties, hymns, ballads, nursery rhymes and clapping songs. It is a companion volume to Three Women, his collection of poetry in Te Reo Māori, and is richly illustrated by Nigel Brown. A soundtrack to the poem ...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.
The Singing Stream - A Collection of Poetry by Ingrid Prosser
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
The Singing Stream is Kapiti-based performance poet Ingrid Prosser’s first full-length collection of poems (following three A6 books sold mostly at performances). The poems are in three cycles, inspired by holidays in Wales, France and Cornwall. In each place, the poet immersed herself in local history ...Show more
Talia by Isla Huia
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Talia is the debut poetry collection from Isla Huia (Te Āti Haunui a-Pāpārangi, Uenuku). It is a critique of hometowns, an analysis of whakapapa, and a reclamation of tongue. It is an ode to the earth she stands on, and to a sister she lost to the skies. It is a manifesto for a future full of aunties an ...Show more