Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā by Glenn Colquhoun; illustrations by Nigel Brown
$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
Heart Stood Still by Miriam Sharland
$30.00 NZD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: NZ Poetry | Series: Ka Haea Te Ata Ser.
Heart Stood Still is an eco-memoir and a lyrical portrait of Manawatu, Aotearoa. In early 2020, Miriam Sharland was nearing the end of a 17-year adventure in Aotearoa and was set to return to her family and friends in England when Covid put an end to her travel plans. Facing isolation, Sharland turned ...Show more
white-hot heart: NZPS Anthology 2023
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
white-hot heart is the 36 th annual anthology of the winners and selected submissions to the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition. The 2023 edition contains over 150 poems and haiku by adult and junior poets, both well-known and newcomers, from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Nor ...Show more
Geoff Cochrane - Selected Poems by Geoff Cochrane
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
This Selected Poems presents the best of Geoff Cochrane's many published collections, from Aztec Noon (1992) to Chosen (2020). 'Geoff Cochrane's is a whole world, rendered in lines at once compressed and open, mysterious and approachable.' -Damien Wilkins 'Over the years, Cochrane's work has been a jo ...Show more
Kerrin P Sharpe - Hoof by Kerrin P Sharpe
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Hoof by Kerrin P. Sharpe arrives with new urgency and longing. These are poems about a father who can only remember one word, ponies that grow hooves of basalt as they pull Scott and Shackelton around ?tamahua in sledges, and a woman named Johanna living in a small village in Greenland. She writes about ...Show more
Remember Me - Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand by Anne Kennedy (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera Lindsay Bird, the rhythms of poetry have carried our sounds and stories, our loves and losses for generations. Now Anne Kennedy brings together for the first time a selection of over 2 ...Show more
In the Temple by Catherine Bagnall; L. Jane Sayle
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Hot on the heels of their acclaimed 2021 collaboration On We Go, artist Catherine Bagnall and poet Jane Sayle return with another collection of watercolours and poems inspired by their contemplation of nature within the context of the feminine sublime. In the Temple maintains a focus on ecological thin ...Show more
Green Rain by Alistair Clarke
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Alastair Clarke’s poetry considerably addresses his re-seeing his country after living for many years overseas. Though this element is not explicit, it does underlie the feelings and ideas of much of the poetry. Returning to live in the Wairarapa - a rich, wide valley bordered by mountains (frequently ...Show more
Āria by Jessica Hinerangi
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Where is my tongue? On display, a trophy of war. Where is my tikanga? Kept in the basement. Where is my mana? Locked in the museum. And where are my whanau? Scattered like dandelion seeds, from the grating city, to the harnessed horizon. Drawing moko kauae on Barbies. Reading Ranginui Walker in rahui. S ...Show more
The Artist by Ruby Solly
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
At first there is nothing but black sand, then something begins to grow; a gentle song emerges so bright that sound becomes sight . . . And so from the black the world is sung into being, not for us, but for itself, but for the song. In a Southern land, where the veil of time and space has worn thin, tw ...Show more
Calamities! by Jane Arthur
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants ‘to get morbid’. Moving with ease between the cerebral and the ethereal she measures her anxieties against a cosmic canvas – taking in everything from meteorites and distant planets to pomanders and cat’s ears. Whether contemplating time, regr ...Show more
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha by Witi Ihimaera (Editor); Michelle Elvy (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays | Series: 1st
Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tepu korero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse with honoured guests, and their rangatira-korero embody the tahuhu, the over-arching horizontal ridge pole ...Show more