Face to the Sky by Michele Leggott
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A new collection by award-winning poet Michele Leggott.In her latest collection, Michele Leggott speaks to the art and writings of nineteenth-century New Zealand painter Emily Cumming Harris. Face to the Sky tells stories of love and loss from two woman in the shadow the same mountain, more than a centu ...Show more
Sedition - Poems by Anahera Maire Gildea
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Sedition is Anahera's long-awaited first full-length volume of poetry. Comprising a significant body of previously unpublished work, Sedition represents a vital political intervention in the poetic landscape of Aotearoa. The work ranges and rages through generations, taking in a mother's anguish and a ...Show more
Past Lives by Leah Dodd
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Grounded in the urgency of the moment - motherhood, housing precarity, politics - Past Lives also surges along on the nervous and joyful electricity of Leah Dodd's voice, taking us from buses to poetry readings, rental bathrooms to Runescape, sometimes through the power of astral projection. These poems ...Show more
R A K Mason - Uncollected Poems by R A K. Mason; Roger Hickin (ed.)
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: NEAR FINE
Allen Curnow called R. A. K. Mason (190571) New Zealand's 'first wholly original, unmistakably gifted poet'. His Collected Poems, first published in 1962, was arigorous selection made before Mason's 'late flowering' of 196265. Some of the excluded poems and some of the late poems have since seen the lig ...Show more
We Came from Hamburg by V. Ullrich
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
It is Hamburg, 1920. Abruptly Erna leaves her marriage and her three daughters, and disappears from the family. No one speaks of her again. One by one the other members of the Simon family begin to disappear, with death from natural causes and then as a response to what is happening in Germany with the ...Show more
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$25.00 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
A Riderless Horse by Tim Upperton
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The third poetry collection from Palmerston North poet Tim Upperton. I was Dick. I teased Anne and George.I was Edmund, betrayed my friendsfor a sweet. Something rotten in me. — from ‘My childhood’ In his third poetry collection, award-winning poet Tim Upperton takes us to the ...Show more
Night School by Michael Steven
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Steven's Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art and aroha can save us in a godless world.
The Pistils by Janet Charman
$15.00 NZD
$25.00 (40% off)
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The Pistils is a dispatch from the cusp of change. It appears at the severing of a 40-year relationship following the illness and death of poet Janet Charman's partner during the Covid restrictions. Here, she chronicles her experience with transition - to the digital age, to single life, to carbon neutr ...Show more
Echidna by essa may ranapiri
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Echidna is a dangerous animal; she pokes holes in men just to remind them what kind of monster she is wakes up every single morning and chooses violence cos what choice does she really have? essa may ranapiri's second poetry collection follows the story of Echidna, their own interpretation of the Greek ...Show more
House and Contents by Gregory O'Brien
$20.00 NZD
$30.00 (33% off)
Category: NZ Poetry
Our mother's clouds and insects fly to embrace your clouds and insects. Her architecture, roads, bridges and infrastructure rush to greet yours. Her molecules on their upward trajectory entwine with yours, the colour of her eyes, hair and skin. Her language, with its past participles, figures of speech, ...Show more