Craven by Jane Arthur
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Craven is an exceptional debut: Jane Arthur delights, unnerves and challenges in poems that circle both the everyday and the ineffable - piano practice, past lives, being forced onto dancefloors. This is a smart and disarming collection that traces the ever-changing forms of light and dark in our lives ...Show more
Denis Glover: Selected Poems by Denis Glover
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: VUP Classic Ser.
Denis Glover wrote New Zealands most famous poem, yet his work has fallen in and out of print over the years. First published in 1995, Bill Manhires selection is based on Glovers own 1981 Selected Poems, and includes The Magpies along with a wide variety of other poems, lyrical and satirical. It reveals ...Show more
Eileen Duggan: Selected Poems by Peter Whiteford
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: VUP Classic Ser.
Eileen Duggan (1894-1972) was New Zealand's best known poet while she was writing and publishing - for many years her reputation outside New Zealand exceeded that of any other New Zealand poet - but today her work is largely out of print. Duggan's poetry showed an undeniable lyric gift and genuine skill ...Show more
Always Song in the Water : An Oceanic Sketchbook by Gregory O'Brien
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Every morning Gregory OBrien looks out his window to see an upside down rowboat on his front lawn, deposited many years ago after some adventure and now covered in creeping vines. In this meditation on land and water, art and literature, OBrien goes in search of this country and our place as dwellers on ...Show more
Ransack by essa may ranapiri
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In ransack, essa may ranapiri addresses the difficulty of assembling and understanding a fractured, unwieldy self through an inherited language - a language whose assumptions and expectations ultimately make it inadequate for such a task. These poems seek richer, less hierarchical sets of words to descr ...Show more
Lay Studies by Steven Toussaint
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In Lay Studies, Steven Toussaint conducts an impressive range of lyric inventions, pitching his poems to that precarious interval between love and rage. Beneath their formal dexterity and variety, these études sustain a continuous meditation on the concords and dissonances of worshipful life in an age d ...Show more
AUP New Poets 5 by Decarlo Carolyn Van Waardenberg Sophie
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: AUP New Poets Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In a New Zealand poetry scene overflowing with energy, the return of AUP New Poets introduces three extraordinary new voices. Launched in 1999, AUP New Poets first introduced readers to Anna Jackson, Sonja Yelich, Janis Freegard, Chris Tse and many more significant New Zealand voices. Relaunching this y ...Show more
How to Live by Rickerby Helen
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’ Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tel ...Show more
Wild Honey by Paula Green
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand women have published poetry for over 150 years. In this landmark book, poet and anthologist Paula Green celebrates and makes connections between 201 of them, from emerging poets and those who are household names to those who have slipped from public view or were not paid the honour they were ...Show more
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick by Meredith Courtney Sina
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: General Adult
Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick is a collection of poetry by Courtney Sina Meredith. Meredith has established a local and international reputation as a performer, poet, musician and playwright. Her work is an on-going discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique and an e ...Show more
Two or More Islands by Bridge Diana
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Diana Bridge's subjects are reflected through a range of cultural lenses. To engagement with Western and New Zealand literature should be added her immersion in the great Asian cultures of China and India. Her poetry is an intricate meshing of realities and possesses a remarkable depth and richness of p ...Show more
To the Occupant by Neale Emma
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
To the Occupant takes the everyday and transforms it into something fine and precious and enduring. With an unsparing attention, Emma Neale creates shape-shifting poems that confound prejudices and subvert expectations. Displaying verve and confidence, her poetry is filled with musicality and dynamic la ...Show more