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Specimen: Personal Essays by Madison Hamill
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from Pak'nSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar . . . In scenarios ranging from the mundane to the surreal, Madison Hamill looks back at her younger selves with a sharp ...Show more
Mezzaluna - Selected Poems by Michele Leggott
$38.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Thirty years of selected poems by the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. Mezzaluna gathers work from critically acclaimed poet Michele Leggott's nine collections, from Like This? (1988) to Vanishing Points (2017). In complex lyrics, sampling thought and song, voice and vision, Leggott creates lush tex ...Show more
AUP New Poets 6 by Ben Kemp; Vanessa Crofskey; Chris Stewart; Anna Jackson (Foreword by)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: AUP New Poets Ser.
Post-it notes and shopping lists, Japanese monks and children's lungs: AUP New Poets 6 is a deep dive into the rich diversity of New Zealand poetry today. Relaunched under the editorship of Anna Jackson in 2019, AUP New Poets 6 features substantial selections from the poetry of BenKemp, Vanessa Crofskey ...Show more
The Lifers by Michael Steven
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
From Sean Macgregor's lounge occupied by stoned youths, to three bank robbers en route to the Penrose ANZ, Michael Steven's second collection presents his clear, clean vision of 'the lifers' who inhabit these islands and beyond.A generation's subterranean memories of post-Rogernomics New Zealand are a l ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020 by Johanna Emeney (Editor)
$38.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. Issue #54 features 133 new poems (including by this year's featured poe ...Show more
Are Friends Electric? by Helen Heath
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Are Friends Electric? offers a vivid and moving vision of a past, present and future mediated by technology. The first part of Helen Heath's bold new collection is comprised largely of found poems which emerge from conversations about sex bots, people who feel an intimate love for bridges, fences and b ...Show more
This Is Your Real Name by Elizabeth Morton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In lieu of flowers, bring weeds. Elizabeth Mortons poems look unflinchingly at a raw and unstable world the crash, the aftermath, the comeback, the black heat at the centre of things. The poems in Mortons second collection are charged with a visceral energy. This is poetry as incantation: an intense, la ...Show more
Deadpan by James Norcliffe
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"The title of James Norcliffes tenth poetry collection points deftly to the way it conveys big emotions without cracking a smile or shedding a tear. In Deadpan, Norcliffe writes in an alert, compassionate yet sceptical voice. The books first section, Poor Yorick, shares the thoughts of an introspective ...Show more
Landfall 238 by Emma Neale (Editor)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Landfall Ser.
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers. There are reviews of the latest books ...Show more
Moth Hour by Anne Kennedy
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The family didn’t know what to do about grief. The noisy house went silent. I was fourteen. I lay on the red rug in the sitting room and listened to Beethoven’s Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, op. 120 – over and over because it was there. In 1973, Anne Kennedy’s brother Philip was ...Show more
Haare Williams : Words of a kaumatua by Haare Williams; Witi Ihimaera (Introduction by)
$54.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A kaumatua - an elder of the Maori people - reflects in poetry and prose on his journey from te ao Maori on the East Coast to contemporary Auckland, New Zealand.Ko te kopara anake e tarere ki te tihi o te makauri. Oti rawa! Kia oti rawa, e!Haare Williams grew up with his Tuhoe grandparents on the shores ...Show more