Letter to 'Oumuamua by James Norcliffe
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this wry and witty collection -- addressed to the first interstellar object ever to be detected in our solar system -- James Norcliffe applies a cool, clear eye to human life on Earth. Our foibles and absurdities are laid bare, but so too is the human capacity for love, desire, sorrow and regret. Nor ...Show more
Respirator - A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 by David Eggleton
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton's tenure as the Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019-22). In this collection, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four extraordinary years manifested in Aotearoa NZ, from the impact of living through a pandemic to ecologic ...Show more
Waha/Mouth by Hinemoana Baker
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Category: Poetry
I’d like to think that opening this book to read is like standing at the mouth of a cave, or a river, or a grave, with a candle in your hand. –Hinemoana Baker
O Me Voy o Te Vas / One of Us Must Go by Rogelio Guedea
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
Into Your Hands - Essays Inspired by Mystic and Prophet Michael Bernard Kelly by Brown Andrew (Editor)
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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
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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
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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
Super Model Minority by Chris Tse
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
It's the end of the world and Chris Tse has lost his chill. In Super Model Minority he completes a loose trilogy of books - from the historical racism of How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes to a queer coming of age in HE'S SO MASC - by looking to a future where 'it's enough to look up at a sky blushing r ...Show more