Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 by Johanna Emeny (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. Issue #54 features 133 new poems (including by this year's featured poe ...Show more
The Lifers by Michael Steven
$27.50 NZD
Category: Poetry
From Sean Macgregor's lounge occupied by stoned youths, to three bank robbers en route to the Penrose ANZ, Michael Steven's second collection presents his clear, clean vision of 'the lifers' who inhabit these islands and beyond.A generation's subterranean memories of post-Rogernomics New Zealand are a l ...Show more
Wow by Bill Manhire
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here. Bill Manhire's new book begins with the song of an extinct bird, the huia, and journeys on into troubling futures. These poems reach ...Show more
Fiona Farrell - Nouns, verbs, etc (selected poems) by Fiona Farrell
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Category: Poetry
One of New Zealand's most versatile writers, Fiona Farrell has published four collections of poetry over 25 years, from Cutting Out (1987) to The Broken Book (2011). Nouns, verbs, etc. collects the best work from these books, and intersperses them with other poems thus far 'uncollected'. The themes are ...Show more
Goddess Muscle by Karlo Mila
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Category: Poetry
This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. They ...Show more
Far Flung by Rhian Gallagher
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Category: Poetry
Far-Flung traverses multiple terrains - home and upheaval, our connection to the environment and to people, our relation to the past, place and placelessness. From 'the Kilmog slumping seaward' to 'the bracts and the berries and the leaves' of the Mackenzie country; the moth ('courier of bloom powder'); ...Show more
Selected Poems by James Brown
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This book is the first to represent the full extent of the work of James Brown. With personal lyrics, narrative desire, short takes, anti-poetry, stolen lines, and hill-climbing, Selected Poems is a showcase of one of New Zealand’s essential poetic voices. 'This is dazzling stuff.' —Hamesh Wyatt, Otago ...Show more
How to Be Happy Though Human - New and Selected Poems by Kate Camp
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A timely collection of new and previously published work by one of Aotearoa’s most acclaimed poets, How to Be Happy Though Human is Kate Camp’s superb seventh book of poetry.It is published simultaneously in Canada and the United States by House of Anansi Press. Kate Camp’s poetry has been described by ...Show more
After the Dance by Michele Amas
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
After the Dance is a superb first collection of poems.
Walking Home by Michele Amas
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Category: Poetry
Walking Home gathers together some of the last poems written by Michele Amas. These are poems of tenacity and courage, and of locating oneself in time and in love. "'Teach me how to live I cried' goes a line in the poem 'Walden Pond'. In these sharp-witted, tender, at times heart-wrenching poems, Michel ...Show more
The Friday Poem - 100 New Zealand Poems by Edited by Steve Braunias
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Category: Poetry
An anthology of new New Zealand verse, which first appeared in the popular Friday Poem slot in The Spinoff website. It features some of the most well-known and established names in New Zealand poetry as well as new, exciting writers. It is a showcase of New Zealand poetry. It includes hilarious poems a ...Show more
The White Clock: Poems by Owen Marshall by Owen Marshall
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Category: Poetry
Delving both into 'the worlds of the mind' and 'where he happens to be', Owen Marshall brings us poetry that is steeped in the Classics, history and literature, and yet is alive with the vivid particulars of damp duffle-coats and hot-air balloons, beer and bicycles, willows and skylarks, kauri gum and l ...Show more