Anchor Stone by Tony Beyer
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
ANCHOR STONE by Tony Beyer is "a significant book by a significant poet" (Mark Young). It includes several longer works & a significant proportion which deliberately address issues relevant to contemporary concepts of New Zealand identity and culture. Importantly for the work of a senior pakeha poet ...Show more
Surrender - Poems by Michaela Keeble
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
Surrender is Michaela Keeble's remarkable first full-length collection of poems. It responds to the call of indigenous and other radical poets – as well as to the deafening silence in white poetry – to face our colonial past and our increasingly appropriative present. In challenging herself, Michaela's ...Show more
Poukahangatus by Tayi Tibble
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
'This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakamā and kitsch and emerges dripping with colour and liquor. There’s whakapapa, funk (in all its connotations) and fetishisation. Th ...Show more
Formica by Maggie Rainey-Smith
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Formica begins in 1950s Richmond with the author’s family struggling in the aftermath of a war that took her father to Crete to fight and then Poland as a prisoner of war. At the Formica kitchen table, Maggie’s mother is reciting poems while chopping the veggies for tea. Maggie listens while tying her b ...Show more
Life & Customs by Bernadette Hall
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Life & Customs begins and ends in Otago. It circles through places and through history, picking up the rhythms of a maze. It is full of stories: a girl slips into an anorexic silence as cold as Antarctica; lovers wander hand in hand into a southern future. ‘The hope thing’ emerges as a stubborn poss ...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
Alzheimer's and a Spoon by Liz Breslin
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Fine
when life gives you spoons, demand a refund, an inquiry when life gives you spoons, scoop the innards, carve a heart when life gives you spoons, collect a set Alzheimer's and a Spoon takes its readers on a tangled trip. Public stories - a conversation at the Castle of the Insane, online quizzes to deter ...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 bu ...Show more
Water Protectors by Moran Kevin
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
The Story of the Campaign To Save Te Waikoropupu Springs in poetry and images. Te Waikoropupu Springs in Golden Bay New Zealand is a national treasure. Crystal clear waters surge to the surface to form a bubbling fount. Over 90,000 people flock to visit each year. Many experience a spiritual presence. P ...Show more
Listening In by Lynley Edmeades
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
In her 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 show, often ...Show more
Fancy Dancing: New and Selected Poems 2004:2020 by Bernadette Hall
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
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
Felt by Johanna Emeney
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
Couples in last-chance therapy, friends unfriending, racist trolls trawling the comments section for game--this collection of poems is concerned with the things that make us feel. The felt realm is very much in nature, too. From the calm of a sleeping doe to the slow unwinding of the last bee on Earth, ...Show more