Night School by Michael Steven
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Steven's Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art and aroha can save us in a godless world.
Naming the Beasts by Elizabeth Morton
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Naming the Beasts is a menagerie of poems about the gnarlier aspects of being a creature of this world. Within these pages wilderness and suburbia collide. The 'I' in these poems takes many forms: a wolf, a waterbuck, a bird 'stuck circling the carnage'. Whether soaring above or prowling through the nei ...Show more
Meat Lovers by Rebecca Hawkes
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A tenderly devastating look at our cows and ourselves by a remarkable new poet.In this dazzling first collection, acclaimed Wellington poet and Canterbury farm-girl Rebecca Hawkes takes a generous bite from the excesses of earthly flesh - first 'Meat', then 'Lovers'.'Meat' is a coming of age in which po ...Show more
House and Contents by Gregory O'Brien
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Our mother's clouds and insects fly to embrace your clouds and insects. Her architecture, roads, bridges and infrastructure rush to greet yours. Her molecules on their upward trajectory entwine with yours, the colour of her eyes, hair and skin. Her language, with its past participles, figures of speech, ...Show more
Another Beautiful Day Indoors by Erik Kennedy
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Out on the pleasure pier on that benign afternoon,the air heavy with the blossom of vinegar and old tyres,you asked what was the closest I had come to death. Another Beautiful Day Indoors is more likely to end with a dark flood than a beautiful sundown. As these poems grapple with climate catastrophe, ...Show more
Actions and Travels - How Poetry Works by Anna Jackson
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A brilliant introduction to how poetry works through one hundred poems.Through illuminating readings of one hundred poems - from Catullus to Alice Oswald, Shakespeare to Hera Lindsay Bird - Actions & Travels is an engaging introduction to how poetry works. Ten chapters look at simplicity and resonan ...Show more
Down Rainbow Road - New and Selected Poems by Rob Wallis
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
New poetry and selections from previous works
From Darkness to Light by Doug McPhillips
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A book of poems and descriptive prose on a journey of discovery in letting go of the past and entering a new beginning. This book of myth, songs and poetic expression was inspired by Doug as he tramped the Way from St-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France to Santiago, Spain. Bonus CD
Next by Alan Roddick
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Writing from the eighth and ninth decades of his life, Alan Roddicks third collection of poetry, Next, examines the past, observes the present and speculates on the future. Anchored in the action of daily life whether it be a ride in a mirrored elevator or a roadside conversation with a friend his poem ...Show more
The Pistils by Janet Charman
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The Pistils is a dispatch from the cusp of change. It appears at the severing of a 40-year relationship following the illness and death of poet Janet Charman's partner during the Covid restrictions. Here, she chronicles her experience with transition - to the digital age, to single life, to carbon neutr ...Show more