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How To Live by Helen Rickerby
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’ Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tell ...Show more
Reflections by Dave Briggs, JF Robert
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Rooted in the landscape, Dave's poems aim to tease you with the ambiguities of life, and make you think again. Through the medium of water, untouched, true, JF's pictures take you to the borderland between reality and abstraction, and invite you to look deeper for understanding. In pictures and words, t ...Show more
Landmarks by Owen Marshall; Grahame Sydney; Brian Turner
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | 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
Letters to Young People by Glenn Colquhoun
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
“It is difficult to ignore the story of a young person. When they are in pain, that pain seems all the more demanding because they are vulnerable and because their life still lies ahead of them ... I have learnt that the most important medicine they need from me is to listen to these stories, to hold th ...Show more
Are Friends Electric? by Helen Heath
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
Are Friends Electric? offers a vivid and moving vision of a past, present and future mediated by technology. The first part of Helen Heath's bold new collection is comprised largely of found poems which emerge from conversations about sex bots, people who feel an intimate love for bridges, fences and b ...Show more
Leaving the Red Zone: Poems From the Canterbury Earthquakes by edited by James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
More than 400,000 peopleMore than 14,000 earthquakes5 yearsPeople talked about quake brain, but theCanterbury earthquakes, despite or becauseof this, generated amazing bursts of creativity:music, dance, astonishing street art; and poetry.Leaving the Red Zone is a rich and wide-rangingcollection showcasi ...Show more
Selected Writings by Blanche Baughan
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Blanche Baughan (1870-1958) was one of New Zealand's most spirited literary pioneers. This selection of her works includes her most enduringly popular poems, which were among the first by any New Zealander to break through Victorian conventions and engage vividly with the new country. They are coupled h ...Show more
Lay Studies by Steven Toussaint
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
In Lay Studies, Steven Toussaint conducts an impressive range of lyric inventions, pitching his poems to that precarious interval between love and rage. Beneath their formal dexterity and variety, these études sustain a continuous meditation on the concords and dissonances of worshipful life in an age d ...Show more
Listening In by Lynley Edmeades
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
In this original second collection, Lynley Edmeades turns her attention to ideas of sound, listening and speech. Listening In is full of the verbal play and linguistic experimentation that characterised her first collection, but it also shows the poet pushing the form into new territories. Her poems sh ...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
Shaggy Magpie Songs by Murray Edmond
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: New
A little bubbly, a little bitter, a little absurd, and echoing with the sound of laughter, these poem-songs have shaggy tales to tell. Shaggy Magpie Songs is a celebration of poetry's potential - for drama and comedy, narrative and nonsense. Presented in four parts - Praise, Nonsense, Blues and Pop - th ...Show more
James K Baxter: Complete Prose (HB 4 Volume Slipcase) by James K Baxter, ed. John Weir
$199.99 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism
James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. He once declared, ‘In contradiction . . . I was born.’Sometimes at odds with God, often at odds with conventional society, he was at the same time a profoundly religious man and a fearless social critic who insisted that love and compassion were the on ...Show more