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
The Uppish Hen & other poems by Robin Hyde
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In 1934, four-year-old Derek Challis found a homemade book in his Christmas stocking. On the typed pages bound with pink ribbon were poems written for him by his mother, the writer Robin Hyde. Derek - known as Derry - treasured the gift and could recite the poems until his death in 2021. Hyde hoped the ...Show more
Andrew Johnston - Selected Poems by Andrew Johnston
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fiine
This Selected Poems presents the best of Andrew Johnston's five published collections, from How to Talk (1993) to Fits & Starts (2016).'Andrew Johnson does the best titles. And then he puts the best poems underneath them.' -Bill Manhire'Andrew Johnston's first collection, How to Talk, is a book of s ...Show more
Tunui | Comet by Robert Sullivan
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Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
my old friend I wonder how far north you travel?The road goes west starting two doors up from The Dog’s Bollix ending at sunset. So many sunsetsFacebook and Instagram couldn’t contain them. Tūnui | Comet is the first collection in more than a decade by one of our most important living Māori poets. Roll ...Show more
Little Ache, The by Ian Wedde
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Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The Little Ache – a German notebook was written in 2013–14, while Ian Wedde was researching his acclaimed novel The Reed Warbler. In Berlin and the north of Germany around Kiel, nineteenth-century ancestors whisper to him amid the clamour of history and the pleasures of daily life.
Felt by Johanna Emeney
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Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Couples in last-chance therapy, friends unfriending, racist trolls trawling the comments section for game--this collection of poems is concerned with the things that make us feel. The felt realm is very much in nature, too. From the calm of a sleeping doe to the slow unwinding of the last bee on Earth, ...Show more
Town by MADELEINE SLAVICK
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Welcome to 'Town', fifty stories and fifty images by writer and photographer Madeleine Slavick, who lived in Hong Kong for almost twenty-five years before moving to a Wairarapa country road that runs from state highway to bush.
Fox Spirit On A Distant Cloud by Lee Murray
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Wellington, 1923, and a sixty-year-old woman hangs herself in a scullery; ten years later another woman 'falls' from the second floor of a Taranaki tobacconist; soon afterwards a young mother in Taumarunui slices the throat of her newborn with a cleaver. All are women of the Chinese diaspora, who came t ...Show more
Letters to Young People by Glenn Colquhoun
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
“It is difficult to ignore the story of a young person. When they are in pain, that pain seems all the more demanding because they are vulnerable and because their life still lies ahead of them ... I have learnt that the most important medicine they need from me is to listen to these stories, to hold th ...Show more
Revelations: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 by Edited by Tracey Slaughter
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Ser.
For the 2024 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her selection of 101 new poems from an exhaustive submission process.Another packed issue, #58 showcases the raw and the vital - including from this year's featured poet, Carin Smeaton - and ...Show more
Plastic by Stacey Teague
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
you see a photo of yourself / pressed behind plastic / three years old in a white skivvy In Plastic, Stacey Teague reaches beyond the frame of her known world to find a way back to te ao Māori. Hers is a complicated, joyful route, full of conversations with ancestors, old places and herself. In form th ...Show more