On Her Journey by Megan Bell
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
See the sunlight glinting on maple tree leaves when the energy of the wind moves them? A picture of scatted fairy gold and old world magic. Or the sparkles of a thousand diamonds carpeting the earth, as I tiptoe to collect tart green apples in the cradle of my shirt. Are you struck with awe like me? ...Show more
Night Horse by Smither Elizabeth
27.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Near Fine
In Elizabeth Smither's eighteenth collection of poetry her words are as vital as ever. The poems take the everyday - mothers and daughters, cats and horses, books and bowls, slippers and shirts - and transform them into something fresh: sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, often enchanted. And throughout ...Show more
Judas Tree by Lorna Staveley Anker
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
LORNA STAVELEY ANKER was born in 1914. She used to joke that this was the cause of the First World War. In truth, the poems in this fine collection reveal her as New Zealand’s first woman war poet. There are poems here that arise from her childhood memories of Kaiser Bill. Three of her uncles died in F ...Show more
Revelations: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 by Edited by Tracey Slaughter
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Ser.
For the 2024 edition of the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, editor Tracey Slaughter has once again hit the zeitgeist in her selection of 101 new poems from an exhaustive submission process.Another packed issue, #58 showcases the raw and the vital - including from this year's featured poet, Carin Smeaton - and ...Show more
Party Legend by Sam Duckor Jones
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Series: 1st
Sam Duckor Jones’s first poetry collection was a tour of small towns, overgrown lawns, and giant clay men. In Party Legend he turns once again to questions of existence but at an even bigger scale. These are poems about creation, God, intimacy, the surreality of political rhetoric, misunderstandings at ...Show more
Super Model Minority by Chris Tse
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
It's the end of the world and Chris Tse has lost his chill. In Super Model Minority he completes a loose trilogy of books - from the historical racism of How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes to a queer coming of age in HE'S SO MASC - by looking to a future where 'it's enough to look up at a sky blushing r ...Show more
Landmarks by Owen Marshall; Grahame Sydney; Brian Turner
75.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Pictorial | Reading Level: near fine
A handsome, landmark book celebrating the work of three of our literary and artistic heavyweights. The complementary work of artist Grahame Sydney, fiction writer Owen Marshall and poet Brian Turner was first brought together in the hugely successful Timeless Land in 1995. Its pages showed their shared, ...Show more
Cloudboy by Siobhan Harvey
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
"Cloudboy" is a deep-mulling, richly senstive account of a mother's ajustments to the needs of an autistic child. This prize-winning suite of poems grows out of extremes of love and frustration, as the poet introduces a bright, unpredictable, markedly individual boy to the rigid, often airless routines ...Show more
View from the South by Owen Marshall
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
A stunning collection of poems from one of New Zealand's most respected writers.David Eggleton wrote of Marshall's poetry in the New Zealand Listenerthat, 'Above all, the poems are redolent of the South Island - all wild winds and dry hills, sleepy summer afternoons, the shimmer of light on lakes, snow ...Show more
The Lonely Nude by Emily Dobson
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
‘your self: created, drawn, many times over’ From its arresting central image of standing naked before a life-drawing class, The Lonely Nude reveals a speaker who, even as she travels into the world, feels increasingly disconnected from it. With Dobson’s characteristic humour and subtlety, the seven se ...Show more
Mister Hamilton by John Dickson
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Near Fine
Mister Hamilton, John Dickson's first collection in eighteen years, is an appealing, questioning mix of elements. Over a base of South Island bedrock (granite, schist, greywacke), Dickson has peopled this quietly fiery collection with day-to-day working voices and narratives, sometimes comic, sometimes ...Show more
The Farewell Tourist by Alison Glenny
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glennys The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal. In 'The Magnetic Process' sequence a man and a woman inhabit a polar world, adrift in zones of divergence, where dreams are filled with snow, icebergs, and sinking ...Show more