Past Lives by Leah Dodd
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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
The Artist by Ruby Solly
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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
This Is a Story about Your Mother by Louise Wallace
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In her latest collection, Louise Wallace raises an existential eyebrow at pregnancy-birth-motherhood. Is this universal rite-of-passage really an intimately personal event, down to the degree of fluid rising in your ankles, or is it a societal machine, forever churning out the next generation to an unre ...Show more
Respirator - A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 by David Eggleton
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poets
Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton's tenure as the Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019-22). In this collection, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four extraordinary years manifested in Aotearoa NZ, from the impact of living through a pandemic to ecologic ...Show more
Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa by Chris Tse & Emma Barnes (Editors)
$60.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness, and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you’re hidden? Aotearoa is a land o ...Show more
We’re All Made of Lightning by Khadro Mohamed
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
We’re All Made of Lightning is the debut poetry collection from Wellington-based writer Khadro Mohamed. Mohamed expertly navigates the experience of being a Muslim woman in Aotearoa, bringing us along on her journey of selfhood. Shifting between Aotearoa, Egypt and Somalia, we get a glimpse into her wor ...Show more
Sedition - Poems by Anahera Maire Gildea
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poets
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
People Person by Joanna Cho
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poets
I tackled you to the floor, locked you between my thighs, used my free arm to grab my phone. Put on the NBA highlights. You relaxed immediately. This is intimacy. People Person is a debut collection by Joanna Cho. These adventurous, funny and dissonant poems are about the endless work of fitting in wh ...Show more
Biter by Claudia Jardine
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Ancient Greek epigrams drive a bitingly contemporary first poetry collection.Filled with hickeys puttanesca and tart wit, BITER is an apt title for Claudia Jardine's debut collection of verse. Fresh translations of erotic Greek epigrams are threaded through boozy sonnets, ecstatic odes and startlingly v ...Show more