Far Flung by Rhian Gallagher
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Far-Flung traverses multiple terrains - home and upheaval, our connection to the environment and to people, our relation to the past, place and placelessness. From 'the Kilmog slumping seaward' to 'the bracts and the berries and the leaves' of the Mackenzie country; the moth ('courier of bloom powder'); ...Show more
Wow by Bill Manhire
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here. Bill Manhire's new book begins with the song of an extinct bird, the huia, and journeys on into troubling futures. These poems reach ...Show more
The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Kneel like a prayer full of lynching This is my God-given white ‘Savage is as savage does. And we’re all implicated. Avia breaks the colonial lens wide open. We peer through its poetic shards and see a savage world – outside, inside. With characteristic savage and stylish wit, Avia holds the word-blade ...Show more
Fancy Dancing: New and Selected Poems 2004:2020 by Bernadette Hall
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Hedge through the hedge and way back then pushing my way out into the Central Otago sun there was the laughing face of Jean and someone else whose name I have forgotten they played with me as if I was a doll Bernadette Hall is Otago born and bred. Following a long and much enjoyed career as a high sch ...Show more
Escape Path Lighting by John Newton
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A drunken poet obliged to choose between Art and Love. What could possibly go wrong? Rock Oyster Island. It's a slack kind of place, but that's the way the locals like it: lifestyle farmers, pensioned-off bikers, seekers and healers, meth cooks and fishing guides. It's only a ferry ride to the city but ...Show more
Chosen by Geoff Cochrane
$21.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
'Each and every day, at some point on our walk, he stops and lets me know that this is today's person, the party he wants to be introduced to.' The nineteenth collection of poems by cult Wellington poet and pedestrian Geoff Cochrane. Geoff Cochrane is the author of eighteen collections of poetry, two no ...Show more
How to Be Happy Though Human - New and Selected Poems by Kate Camp
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A timely collection of new and previously published work by one of Aotearoa’s most acclaimed poets, How to Be Happy Though Human is Kate Camp’s superb seventh book of poetry.It is published simultaneously in Canada and the United States by House of Anansi Press. Kate Camp’s poetry has been described by ...Show more
AUP New Poets 7 by Rhys Feeney
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: AUP New Poets Ser.
From Apia to Parnell, ancient Rome to Aro Park and on to the furthest reaches of the internet, AUP New Poets 7 takes readers on an eye-popping journey through contemporary New Zealand poetry. The collection opens with Rhys Feeney's passionate take on contemporary global politics and ecological collapse. ...Show more
Every Now and Then I Have Another Child by Diane Brown
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A mysterious doppelgänger sister, a newborn baby, a boy in a mural, a detective, a former lover, a student stalker ... are they real or imagined? Building on Diane Brown's tradition of extended poetic narratives, Every Now and Then I Have Another Child is an inventive and heartfelt meditation on motherh ...Show more
Fiona Farrell - Nouns, verbs, etc (selected poems) by Fiona Farrell
$38.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
One of New Zealand's most versatile writers, Fiona Farrell has published four collections of poetry over 25 years, from Cutting Out (1987) to The Broken Book (2011). Nouns, verbs, etc. collects the best work from these books, and intersperses them with other poems thus far 'uncollected'. The themes are ...Show more
Best Loved Oscar Wilde by John Wyse Jackson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Best-Loved Irish Writers Ser.
Those whom the gods love grow young. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), one of Ireland's most beloved writers, was a playwright, poet, novelist and author of fairy stories and political essays. A complex man with many sides, he was both a revolutionary thinker and a flamboyant dandy and ...Show more
Best Loved Joyce by James Joyce
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A beautiful and accessible collection of quotes and short extracts taken from the major works of James Joyce: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, with additional quotes from Joyce's poetry letters. Best-Loved Joyce is a collection of the writer's wit and wisdo ...Show more