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The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Kneel like a prayer full of lynching This is my God-given white ‘Savage is as savage does. And we’re all implicated. Avia breaks the colonial lens wide open. We peer through its poetic shards and see a savage world – outside, inside. With characteristic savage and stylish wit, Avia holds the word-blad ...Show more
Fancy Dancing: New and Selected Poems 2007-2020 by Bernadette Hall
$32.95 AUD
Category: 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 schoo ...Show more
Escape Path Lighting by John Newton
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A drunken poet obliged to choose between Art and Love. What could possibly go wrong? Rock Oyster Island. It's a slack kind of place, but that's the way the locals like it: lifestyle farmers, pensioned-off bikers, seekers and healers, meth cooks and fishing guides. It's only a ferry ride to the city but ...Show more
Chosen by Geoff Cochrane
$21.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Each and every day, at some point on our walk, he stops and lets me know that this is today's person, the party he wants to be introduced to.' The nineteenth collection of poems by cult Wellington poet and pedestrian Geoff Cochrane. Geoff Cochrane is the author of eighteen collections of poetry, two no ...Show more
How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems by Kate Camp
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A timely collection of new and previously published work by one of Aotearoa’s most acclaimed poets, How to Be Happy Though Human is Kate Camp’s superb seventh book of poetry. It is published simultaneously in Canada and the United States by House of Anansi Press. Kate Camp’s poetry has been described b ...Show more
AUP New Poets 7 by Rhys Feeney, Ria Masae, Claudia Jardine (Edited by Anna Jackson
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
From Apia to Parnell, ancient Rome to Aro Park and on to the furthest reaches of the internet, AUP New Poets 7 takes readers on an eye-popping journey through contemporary New Zealand poetry. The collection opens with Rhys Feeney's passionate take on contemporary global politics and ecological collapse. ...Show more
Every Now and Then I Have Another Child by Diane Brown
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A mysterious doppelgänger sister, a newborn baby, a boy in a mural, a detective, a former lover, a student stalker ... are they real or imagined? Building on Diane Brown's tradition of extended poetic narratives, Every Now and Then I Have Another Child is an inventive and heartfelt meditation on motherh ...Show more
Nouns Verbs Etc: Selected Poems by FIONA FARRELL
$38.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
One of New Zealand's most versatile writers, Fiona Farrell has published four collections of poetry over 25 years, from Cutting Out (1987) to The Broken Book (2011). Nouns, verbs, etc. collects the best work from these books, and intersperses them with other poems thus far 'uncollected'. The themes are ...Show more
Best-loved Yeats: William Butler Yeats by W. B. Yeats
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams ...Some of the most famous lines in Irish poetry come from the pen of William Butler Yeats, poet, patriot, dramatist and senator. This illustrated collection of forty of his best-loved works, on Love, Politics, Old Age, ...Show more
Social Media by MARY MACPHERSON
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Is our identity more of a composite than we realise? We often think of ourselves as formed from our core values or our DNA, but in Social Media, Mary Macpherson explores identity as a creation of the interactions we have with others: friends, family and the wider world, and the evolving role technology ...Show more
Michael, I Thought You Were Dead by Michael Fitzsimons
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
I have a growing number of scars. A three-inch horizontal scar across the stomach, very tidy. Two more small ones either side of the rib cage and now one on the hand and arm to deal with a Viking inheritance. I look at them in the mirror. I hope they don't fade away completely. They are my body art. My ...Show more
Just Looking by Peter Bland
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
An avid collector of works of art, and long fascinated by how artists see the world, Peter Bland has drawn together poems for his 85th birthday that hes written over the years about paintings and the visual image. Never the name-dropper or cultural snob, Bland lines up art by a child alongside art by Br ...Show more