Felt by Johanna Emeney
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Couples in last-chance therapy, friends unfriending, racist trolls trawling the comments section for game--this collection of poems is concerned with the things that make us feel. The felt realm is very much in nature, too. From the calm of a sleeping doe to the slow unwinding of the last bee on Earth, ...Show more
On We Go by Catherine Bagnall; L Jane Sayle
$38.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The book is developed from moments of intense connection with environments, landscapes and seasons, and the authors' shared understanding that simple but inspiring moments are a source of strength, a solution to the hysteria of contemporary life. The authors say: 'To be outdoors, that is the first thing ...Show more
Things OK With You? by Vincent O'Sullivan
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Know what a thing’s called, and we own it; if not, there’s really only pointing, our still wishing we knew. The afternoon wilts round its edges, unless we’ve said it. Things OK with you? is Vincent O’Sullivan’s first collection of poems since Being Here: Selected Poems (2015) and And So It Is: New Poems ...Show more
Ghosts by Siobhan Harvey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poet Siobhan Harvey's latest collection is about migration, outcasts, the search for home, and the ghosts we live with, including the ones who occupy our memories, ancestries and stories. It begins in a contemporary inner-city suburb where a poet starts to chart the regeneration she witnesses, its diff ...Show more
The: Selected Poems Wilder Years by David Eggleton
$39.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
David Eggleton, Poet Laureate of Aotearoa 2019-21, has published nine poetry collections, and now, finally, comes a 'Best Of '. The Wilder Years: Selected Poems is a hardback compendium of the poet's own selection from 35 years of published work, together with a handful of new poems. Cover art by Nige ...Show more
Mermaid's Purse, The by Adcock Fleur
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades. There are foreign travels, flirtations, family memories, deaths and conversations with the dead. Katherine Mansfield, incognito, ...Show more
Toku Papa by Solly Ruby
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
When you first told me that you gave me the name of our tupuna so that I would be strong enough to hold our family inside my ribcage, I believed you. Here you are. Here is how I saw you, trapped in your own amber. Now it’s time for you to believe me. Tōku Pāpā is a book that serves as a map of survival ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
This is the first complete edition of Katherine Mansfield's poetry, including 26 poems, dating from 1909-10, discovered by Gerri Kimber in the Newberry Library in Chicago in 2015. This edition is made up of 217 poems, ordered chronologically, so that the reader can follow Mansfield's development as a p ...Show more
The Sets by Victor Billot
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The Sets returns again and again to the ever-present sea as a metaphor, a mirror, a companion and an otherworld that contains our dreams and nightmares. Dunedin poet Victor Billot finds in the South Pacific Ocean an oracle of the future and a keeper of our histories. The Sets begins with reflections on ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021 by Tracey Slaughter (ed.)
$43.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook | Reading Level: good-very good
Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. This issue, #55, features 182 poems by 129 poets, including Elizabeth Morton, Michele Leggott, essa may ranapiri, Bob Orr, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Jordan Hamel, David Eggleton and Mere Tai ...Show more
The Death Of Music Journalism by Simon Sweetman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Simon Sweetman – blogger, reviewer, podcaster, and author of On Song: Stories Behind New Zealand’s Pop Classics – releases his first poetry collection, The Death of Music Journalism. Simon’s been writing poems since he was first listening to bands on his Walkman, but then he started sharing them via soc ...Show more
My Honest Poem by Jess Fiebig
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A moving account in poetry of one woman's pathway through violence and addiction. at six, my mother’s boyfriendforced his fat hairy handinside my heart-shaped facefor eating too many Fruit Bursts we bought a tube of them at BPwrapped individually in pastel wax paperswhich littered the backseatlike sweet ...Show more