O Me Voy o Te Vas / One of Us Must Go by Rogelio Guedea
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In Rogelio Guedeas bold new poetry collection, O me voy o te vas / One of us must go (with English translations by Roger Hickin), love is a powerful magnet that attracts and repels in equal measure. In language both lyrical and spare, Guedea examines what it means to share ones life with another person ...Show more
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign wor ...Show more
The Tip Shop by James Brown
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
You pick one up at the Tip Shop: oblivion’s final sieve meets your lucky day. James Brown shakes out oblivion’s final sieve in The Tip Shop. Found poems jostle with autobiographical poems, essayistic with epigrammatic, formally expert with some of his very best freeform sprawls. Alternately poignant and ...Show more
A Roundabout Manner 2018 - Sketches of Life by William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
No Other Place to Stand - An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand by Jordan Hamel; Rebecca Hawkes; Erik Kennedy; Essa Ranapiri
$32.95 AUD
Category: 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
Echidna by essa may ranapiri
$27.95 AUD
Category: 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
Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam; Henry Gifford (Introduction by); Sidney Monas (Translator); Clarence Brown (Translator); Robert Hughes (Translator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
The last published work of a great poet who wrote a few lines attacking Stalin and was shortly thereafter exiled to Siberia where he died near Vladivostok six years later. An inimitable volume, Journey to Armenia is a travel book in name only. Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the ...Show more
Into Your Hands - Essays Inspired by Mystic and Prophet Michael Bernard Kelly by Brown Andrew (Editor)
$35.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A collection of twenty essays and recollections dealing with the life and work of Michael Bernard Kelly (1954-2020), gay activist, theologian, writer.
A Riderless Horse by Tim Upperton
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The third poetry collection from Palmerston North poet Tim Upperton. I was Dick. I teased Anne and George.I was Edmund, betrayed my friendsfor a sweet. Something rotten in me. — from ‘My childhood’ In his third poetry collection, award-winning poet Tim Upperton takes us to the ...Show more
Tunui | Comet by Robert Sullivan
$21.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
my old friend I wonder how far north you travel?The road goes west starting two doors up from The Dog’s Bollix ending at sunset. So many sunsetsFacebook and Instagram couldn’t contain them. Tūnui | Comet is the first collection in more than a decade by one of our most important living Māori poets. Roll ...Show more
Illustrated Māori Dictionary: Maori-English Essentials by A.W. Reed
$38.95 AUD
Category: Literature
In compiling this dictionary A.W. Reed set out to entertain as well as educate. Its succinct entries encompass modern and traditional Māori language and customs, as do the fine illustrations by Roger Hart. These Māori to English definitions delve into a variety of associated meanings and derivations — ...Show more