Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand by Carrie Rudzinski, Grace Iwashita-Taylor
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
From the South Auckland Poets Collective to regional writers festivals, at poetry slams and open mic nights, in theatre works like Show Ponies and Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, performance poetry has taken off in Aotearoa.In this anthology, ninety performance poets, rappers, spoken-word artists, slam poets, ...Show more
Fleur Adcock Collected Poems - (Expanded Edition) by Fleur Adcock
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
This expanded edition of Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems, first published in hardback in 2019, includes her latest collection The Mermaid's Purse, and twenty new poems. It is published simultaneously with Bloodaxe Books (UK) on the occasion of Fleur Adcock's 90th birthday on 10 February 2024.
Say I Do This - Poems 2018 - 2022 by C K Stead
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
In this poignant new poetry collection, one of this country's most significant voices reflects on home, on away, and on friends living and dead. 'I lead a life of quiet medication', the poet claims, 'longing for foreign shores, adventure and death.' But whether swimming to the yellow buoy or remembering ...Show more
People Person by Joanna Cho
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
I tackled you to the floor, locked you between my thighs, used my free arm to grab my phone. Put on the NBA highlights. You relaxed immediately. This is intimacy. People Person is a debut collection by Joanna Cho. These adventurous, funny and dissonant poems are about the endless work of fitting in wh ...Show more
Somewhere a Cleaner - Their voices in poems and prose by Adrienne Jansen et al (eds)
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
Somewhere a cleaner Poems by cleaners from around New Zealand During the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve all been thinking about essential services. Including cleaning. Cleaning is universal. It’s steeped in tradition and culture. It’s essential, it’s ordinary and it’s surprisingly poetic. Somewhere a cleaner ...Show more
The Sea Walks into a Wall by Anne Kennedy
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
In The Sea Walks into a Wall, the natural world around us hits back. "The sea crashes its glass onto the bar. You watch from afar. You’d take it all back if you could. Everything.You’d go down there and you’d." And talks back too. "If I’m fucked, you’re coming with me. Sincerely, the stream." From rai ...Show more
The: Selected Poems Wilder Years by David Eggleton
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
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
Root Leaf Flower Fruit - A Verse Novel by Bill Nelson
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
A woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a head injury after coming off his bike, takes leave from his job and family to prepare her rundown house and farm for sale. As he works, he sifts through what remains of his grandmother’s daily life. Then, afte ...Show more
AUP New Poets 9 by Sarah Lawrence; harold coutts; Arielle Walker
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Series: AUP New Poets Ser.
Longing, fragility, romance and other tidal forces collide in AUP New Poets 9. In poems by Sarah Lawrence, harold coutts and Arielle Walker, three fresh, vivid voices arrive. In ‘Clockwatching’, Sarah Lawrence hurtles us into a world full of friends and homes and things, and wonders what they all migh ...Show more
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha by Witi Ihimaera (Editor); Michelle Elvy (Editor)
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Series: 1st
Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tepu korero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse with honoured guests, and their rangatira-korero embody the tahuhu, the over-arching horizontal ridge pole ...Show more
Lunchtime Thoughts of a Gallery Attendant at the End of the World by Vaughan Guson
10.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays