Social Media by Mary Macpherson
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Is our identity more of a composite than we realise? We often think of ourselves as formed from our core values or our DNA, but in Social Media, Mary Macpherson explores identity as a creation of the interactions we have with others: friends, family and the wider world, and the evolving role technology ...Show more
I Thought You Were Dead Michael by Michael Fitzsimmons
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
I have a growing number of scars. A three-inch horizontal scar across the stomach, very tidy. Two more small ones either side of the rib cage and now one on the hand and arm to deal with a Viking inheritance. I look at them in the mirror. I hope they don't fade away completely. They are my body art. My ...Show more
Just Looking by Peter Bland
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
An avid collector of works of art, and long fascinated by how artists see the world, Peter Bland has drawn together poems for his 85th birthday that hes written over the years about paintings and the visual image. Never the name-dropper or cultural snob, Bland lines up art by a child alongside art by Br ...Show more
Sinking Lessons by Philip Armstrong
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Sinking Lessons portray the vitality of a world full of things and beings we too often disregard, using language that vibrates in harmony with the lively tales it tells - from small, everyday events to stories of shipwrecks and strandings, resurrections and reanimations, arctic adventures a ...Show more
Second Person by Gordon Rata
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
The only thing to bring this frozen world to life is an imagination. Who has one? Do I? Let me check. Rata Gordon's first poetry collection is both graceful and restless, sorrowful and witty. In poems about childhood, travelling, the body and the earth, Gordon describes the freedom and disorientation we ...Show more
Selected Poems by James Brown
$43.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
This book is the first to represent the full extent of the work of James Brown. With personal lyrics, narrative desire, short takes, anti-poetry, stolen lines, and hill-climbing, Selected Poems is a showcase of one of New Zealand’s essential poetic voices. 'This is dazzling stuff.' —Hamesh Wyatt, Otago ...Show more
Reaching Light: Selected Poems by Robert Adamson
$39.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Poetry. Edited and introduced by Devin Johnston, REACHING LIGHT selects from five decades of work by one of Australia's finest poets. Readers of Robert Adamson's books will have understood that this distinguished man of letters and major poet is one of the most significant gifts that Australia can offer ...Show more
Funkhaus by Hinemoana Baker
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A queer / takatapui Māori writer living in Berlin, Germany since 2015, Hinemoana Baker brings a unique perspective both to and from the 'global North'. Drawing on the German meaning of the word 'funken' - to send a radio signal - her latest collection broadcasts unsettling songs of rebirth, love, friend ...Show more
Walking Home by Michele Amas
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Walking Home gathers together some of the last poems written by Michele Amas. These are poems of tenacity and courage, and of locating oneself in time and in love. "'Teach me how to live I cried' goes a line in the poem 'Walden Pond'. In these sharp-witted, tender, at times heart-wrenching poems, Michel ...Show more
Pins by Natalie Morrison
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
If all the pins in the world were gathered together you would be very much pleased. But all the pins in the world cannot be gathered together. At the centre of this book-length poem is a sister's disappearance, and a peculiar inheritance: an obsession with pins. Pins held between the teeth to tell a for ...Show more
The Gorse Blooms Pale - Dan Davin's Southland Stories by Dan Davin
$49.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Near Fine
Dan Davin, Rhodes scholar, for many years Academic Publisher at the Clarendon Press in Oxford, and one of New Zealand's acknowledged masters of the short story, was born in Invercargill in 1914. The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers together twenty-six stories and a selection of poems reflecting his experiences ...Show more
New Transgender Blockbusters by Oscar Upperton
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The dead should come back changed, or what’s the point? Why do you hide your head beneath the bedclothes? Doesn’t everyone name themselves? Is your house a bottle? Are you trapped in there? Isn’t it nice to be this close to someone?Can we go back to our notes? Please? Urgent, witty and unnervingly beau ...Show more