The Artist by Ruby Solly
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
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
Respirator - A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 by David Eggleton
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
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
HEAL! by Simone Kaho
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
This is not a self-care manual. HEAL! is an examination of trauma, pulling it apart and looking at its insides. How it infiltrates and seeps into everything so that when you look closely enough, it’s not clear what what is self, and what is a reaction to trauma. HEAL! is a book of poetry from a survivo ...Show more
The Sea Walks into a Wall by Anne Kennedy
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In The Sea Walks into a Wall, the natural world around us hits back. "The sea crashes its glass onto the bar. You watch from afar. You’d take it all back if you could. Everything.You’d go down there and you’d." And talks back too. "If I’m fucked, you’re coming with me. Sincerely, the stream." From rai ...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 Comprising a significant body of previously unpublished work, Sedition represents a vital political intervention in the poetic landscape of Aotearoa.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
No Other Place to Stand - An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand by Jordan Hamel; Rebecca Hawkes; Erik Kennedy; Essa Ranapiri
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Ninety-one writers with connections to these islands grapple with the biggest issue facing people and the planet. What, then, for the work of poetry? It's at the very periphery of popular speech, niche even among the arts, yet it's also rooted in the most ancient traditions of oral storytelling, no matt ...Show more
Just Like That - New Poems by Kevin Ireland
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Poems greet Kevin Ireland in the morning with a crafty smile, or fly into his kitchen out of nowhere. Some dream themselves into his mind, or twist a bottle-cap and offer to share a cup of friendship. Lively words vie for places in his poems, or catch alight from cheerful thoughts. They are never predic ...Show more
Super Model Minority by Chris Tse
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
It's the end of the world and Chris Tse has lost his chill. In Super Model Minority he completes a loose trilogy of books - from the historical racism of How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes to a queer coming of age in HE'S SO MASC - by looking to a future where 'it's enough to look up at a sky blushing r ...Show more
From One Mom to a Mother: Poetry & Momisms by Jessica Urlichs
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Poignant, raw and beautifully honest pieces on motherhood. In this book that comprises of 55 poems and momisms, Jessica Urlichs shares her truths from a vulnerable place of becoming a new Mother. Written from the heart, Jessica's words are inspirational and relatable to so many. Jessica's pieces have ...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
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2022 by Tracey Slaughter (ed.)
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook | Reading Level: very good
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
A Bathful of Kawakawa and Hot Water by Hana Pera Aoake (Ngaati Mahuta, Tainui/Waikato, Ngaati Hinerangi)
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry