Toku Papa by Solly Ruby
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
When you first told me that you gave me the name of our tupuna so that I would be strong enough to hold our family inside my ribcage, I believed you. Here you are. Here is how I saw you, trapped in your own amber. Now it’s time for you to believe me. Tōku Pāpā is a book that serves as a map of survival ...Show more
Fancy Dancing: New and Selected Poems 2004:2020 by Bernadette Hall
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Hedge through the hedge and way back then pushing my way out into the Central Otago sun there was the laughing face of Jean and someone else whose name I have forgotten they played with me as if I was a doll Bernadette Hall is Otago born and bred. Following a long and much enjoyed career as a high sch ...Show more
The Death Of Music Journalism by Simon Sweetman
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Simon Sweetman – blogger, reviewer, podcaster, and author of On Song: Stories Behind New Zealand’s Pop Classics – releases his first poetry collection, The Death of Music Journalism. Simon’s been writing poems since he was first listening to bands on his Walkman, but then he started sharing them via soc ...Show more
Lifted by Bill Manhire
19.99 NZD
24.95 (19% off)
Category: NZ Poetry | Series: VUP Classics | Reading Level: very good
Description: The last lines of Bill Manhire's astonishing poem 'Kevin' lie at the heart of this book. These poems want urgently to know how the secular spirit can lift itself in the face of mortality and human violence. They are full of richness and courage and surprise, turning from grief to curiosity; ...Show more
Rachel McAlpine - How To Be Old by Rachel McAlpine
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
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
How to Live by Rickerby Helen
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’ Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tel ...Show more
Craven by Jane Arthur
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Craven is an exceptional debut: Jane Arthur delights, unnerves and challenges in poems that circle both the everyday and the ineffable - piano practice, past lives, being forced onto dancefloors. This is a smart and disarming collection that traces the ever-changing forms of light and dark in our lives ...Show more
Conventional Weapons by Tracey Slaughter
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Conventional Weapons is Tracey Slaughter's first full poetry collection. In these dark, lyrical poems, Slaughter closely observe the textures of the world and the beauty and depravity of human nature.
Collected Poems – Carol Ann Duffy by Carol Ann Duffy
44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold more than one million copies of her books around the world. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. ...Show more
One Hundred Poems and a Year by Bob Orr
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Rucksack Consider this book of mine as if it were a rucksack containing what you might need if you were to step outside your door. There are poems heavily knitted as fishermen's jerseys in case you should find yourself all at sea. others are like handkerchiefs you can put in your pocket - some of these ...Show more
James K Baxter: Letters of a Poet by Weir John
100.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
James K. Baxter was not a man of few words, and his private correspondence was no exception. Letters of a Poet, edited by his good friend and frequent correspondent John Weir, contains almost 900 of Baxter's letters from 1939 to 1972, covering his teenage years and entire adult life. Frank, funny, gene ...Show more