Moon in a Bowl of Water by Harlow Michael
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Bound together by myth and music, Michael Harlow's 'The Moon in a Bowl of Water' is a stunning new collection from a poet in complete control of his craft. Harlow is the maestro of the prose poem. Here he presents a collection of small human journeys, with a strong emphasis on narrative. The work is con ...Show more
Fleur Adcock - Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems is a landmark publication in the career of one of New Zealand's most significant writers, combining Poems 1960 - 2000 and four subsequent collections in one beautifully produced hardcover volume.
Night as Day by Birdsey Nikki Lee
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In her first book, Nikki-Lee Birdsey takes readers from a remote sheep station in the South Island to the neon signs of Queens; from a hotel in Piha to a Walt Whitman Rest Area in New Jersey; from intimately known cities to remembered landscapes. Night as Day describes a New Zealand that is overlapped b ...Show more
Islander by Davidson Lynn
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The quivering luminosity of Islander is the rippling movement of the sea in sunlight, reflecting at once here, at once there, and then dissolving the distinctions. From Scotland to the Antipodes and back again, Davidson maps the prosaic alongside the sacred, inviting us into a gentle dissolution of plac ...Show more
How I Get Ready by Ashleigh Young
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In her latest poetry collection How I Get Ready, Ashleigh Young fails to learn to drive, vanishes from the fossil record, and finally finishes writing a book. An Ashleigh Young poem is a world: hospitable, strange, a little off kilter. The poems in How I Get Ready bristle with humour and curiosity; they ...Show more
The Black and the White by Geoff Cochrane
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The Black and the White is a new work- witty, fearless, formidably concise - from one of the most distinctive voices in New Zealand poetry.
Dangerous Country of Love and Marriage by Wicks Amy Leigh
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In this powerful collection, Amy Leigh Wicks takes the reader on a literal journey from New York City to Wellington and Kaikoura, and on an emotional journey from youth into `the dangerous country of love and marriage'. Wicks produces sharp, sensory poems that circle around love and commitment, migratio ...Show more
Under Glass by Kan Gregory
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
'The things that are really big and really close are too big and too close to be seen.' A colossal jungle. Two suns. The sea on fire. If the mind were a place, what might it look like? Under Glass is an ambitious new collection by one of the most exciting young poets writing today. Gregory Kan's second ...Show more
Because a Woman's Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean by Wilson Sugar Magnolia
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Through fun and gore, love and monsters, Sugar Magnolia Wilson's riveting first collection takes readers inside a world where past and present, fiction and fact, author and subject collide. Playful and yet not so sunny, these poems invite you in with extravagant and surprising imagery, only to reveal th ...Show more
Tail of the Taniwha by Meredith Courtney Sina
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Tail of the Taniwha is a collection of short stories by writer, poet and playwright Courtney Sina Meredith that builds on the themes and ideas of her signature publications, Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick and the award-winning play, Rushing Dolls. Tail of the Taniwha pushes at the boundaries of writ ...Show more
Bonsai by Michelle Elvy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
'Slippery, and exciting ... The stories come at you directly, and then turn askance, and then slap you in the face' Allan Drew'Bonsai' brings together a pioneering collection of flash fiction and associated forms (prose poetry and haibun) from 165 writers in Aotearoa New Zealand, along with intriguing e ...Show more
Short Poems of New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt
$38.95 AUD
Category: 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