Short Poems of New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
"I've begun to think of short poems as being the literary equivalent of the small house movement. Small houses contain the same essential spaces as large houses do. Both have places in which to eat, sleep, bathe and sit; they're the same, except small houses are, well, smaller." —Jenny Bornholdt Funny, ...Show more
Her Limitless Her by Reihana Robinson
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The bounty of women, how far they’ll go, how far they can stretch – to love, to encompass, to bear. Find them here: bosom-packed, dreamy, dragging their offspring, twinsets askew, peeling, darning, preening. In Her Limitless Her Reihana Robinson has created a beguiling space for her to stretch on the pa ...Show more
That Derrida Whom I Derided Died - Poems 2013-2017 by C.K. Stead
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
" All his life he¿d measured the worth of a work by its cost in effort. Only at the last came this `certainty of execution¿ costing him next-to-nothing, receiving his all. In his eighty-sixth year, C. K. Stead¿s new collection leads us deep inside the life of the poet. He looks back at his younger self, ...Show more
People from the Pit Stand Up by Sam Duckor-Jones
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Series: 1st
This is the voice of someone who is both at home and not at home in the world. Sam Duckor-Jones’s wonderfully fresh, funny, dishevelled poems are alive with art-making and fuelled by a hunger for intimacy. Giant clay men lurk in salons, the lawns of poets overgrow, petrolheads hoon along the beach, bird ...Show more
Coming To It - Selected Poems by Sam Hunt
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Sam Hunt is New Zealand's best-known and, arguably, best-loved poet. Coming To It: Selected poems is the latest collection of Hunt's poems to be published. It is intended to replace both Doubtless: New and selected and Knucklebones: Poems 1962—2012 (both out of print) to ensure that a substantial select ...Show more
View from the South by Owen Marshall
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A stunning collection of poems from one of New Zealand's most respected writers.David Eggleton wrote of Marshall's poetry in the New Zealand Listenerthat, 'Above all, the poems are redolent of the South Island - all wild winds and dry hills, sleepy summer afternoons, the shimmer of light on lakes, snow ...Show more
Poukahangatus by Tayi Tibble
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
'This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakamā and kitsch and emerges dripping with colour and liquor. There’s whakapapa, funk (in all its connotations) and fetishisation. Th ...Show more
Night Horse by Smither Elizabeth
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
In Elizabeth Smither's eighteenth collection of poetry her words are as vital as ever. The poems take the everyday - mothers and daughters, cats and horses, books and bowls, slippers and shirts - and transform them into something fresh: sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, often enchanted. And throughout ...Show more
Walking to Jutland Street by Michael Steven
27.50 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Walking to Jutland Street is the impressive frst book-length collection by up-and-coming Auckland-based poet Michael Steven. The title refers to Dunedins industrial wharf precinct where some of the poets friends shared a flat in 2010. A poem about friendship in the face of the other, Walking to Jutland ...Show more
Big Weather : Poems of Wellington by Gregory O'Brien (editor), Louise St John (editor)
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Description: Capturing the vivacity and diversity of the capital, this poetic portrait is a celebration of Wellington and the creative life it inspires. Beginning with the inner city and harbour, the 100 poems move into the suburbs and parks, before heading to outer areas - and into the twenty-first cen ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 by Jack Ross
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: good
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. It presents the work of talented newcomers as well as that of established voices. This issue features the winning entries of the Poetry New Zealand competition, as well as ov ...Show more
Rawahi by Briar Wood
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
In Rawahi (meaning 'overseas'), poet Briar Wood weaves lyrical seascapes revealing people and places inspired by her home in New Zealand, her travels and time living overseas. Rawahi journeys from Aoteaora New Zealand to London, Europe and back again.