Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 by Tracey Slaughter (ed.)
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poets | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook
An essential, annual collection of terrific new New Zealand poetry Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine (established in 1951 by Louis Johnson), rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both ...Show more
Formica by Maggie Rainey-Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poets
Formica begins in 1950s Richmond with the author’s family struggling in the aftermath of a war that took her father to Crete to fight and then Poland as a prisoner of war. At the Formica kitchen table, Maggie’s mother is reciting poems while chopping the veggies for tea. Maggie listens while tying her b ...Show more
Sleeping With Stones by Serie Barford
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poets
In Sleeping with Stones, beloved Pasifika poet Serie Barford navigates seasons of grief. As she moves through autumn, winter, spring and summer, she traverses the pain, anger, longing and heartache of losing a loved one in poetry that is both steely with resolve and exquisitely tender.
Tumble by Joanna Preston
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poets
Award-winning poet Joanna Preston's beautifully crafted second collection charts a course for the journey from child to woman. Her voice swoops the reader from the ocean depths to the roof of the world, from nascent saints, Viking raids and fallen angels to talking cameras and an astronaut in space. tum ...Show more
Meat Lovers by Rebecca Hawkes
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poets
A tenderly devastating look at our cows and ourselves by a remarkable new poet.In this dazzling first collection, acclaimed Wellington poet and Canterbury farm-girl Rebecca Hawkes takes a generous bite from the excesses of earthly flesh - first 'Meat', then 'Lovers'.'Meat' is a coming of age in which po ...Show more
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick by Meredith Courtney Sina
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick is a collection of poetry by Courtney Sina Meredith. Meredith has established a local and international reputation as a performer, poet, musician and playwright. Her work is an on-going discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique and an e ...Show more
Rachel McAlpine - How To Be Old by Rachel McAlpine
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Wellington writer Rachel McAlpine blogs and podcasts about living and ageing and is celebrating her 80th birthday with a book of poems. How to Be Old is an explosion of humanity on the page with some practical tips from the author and sage advice from Elsie aged five. Rachel has also written novels, son ...Show more
AUP New Poets 8 by Lily Holloway & Modi Deng & Tru Paraha
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: AUP New Poets Ser.
Lilting bees and unidentifiable birds, long-division problems and continental cornflakes: three remarkable voices arrive in AUP New Poets 8. In AUP New Poets 8, Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng come together to produce a volume of remarkable inventions and intoxications. Lily Holloway leads off w ...Show more
Skinny Dip: Poetry by Susan Paris & Kate De Goldi
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals. A new school year: nits, crushes, maths lessons, and rainy-day lunchtimes. But what happens when you send a bunch of poets to school? They loiter in corners and see between the lines. They notice the school bus is missing, there are hungry piranh ...Show more
Selected Poems: Harry Ricketts by Harry Ricketts
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Harry Ricketts has written and edited more than thirty books, but it is his poetry that has been the most constant, and the most personal in tone. From his 1989 collection Coming Here – in which he wrote the first of his ‘Secret Life’ poems – to his 2018 collection Winter Eyes, which reviewer Tim Uppert ...Show more