Katūīvei - Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (Katuivei) by David Eggleton (Editor); Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Mere Taito (Editor)
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation between cultural spaces. This collection of 137 poems by 89 Aotearoa-based Pacific poets explores that navigation. This significant collection ranges from long-established voices ...Show more
Naming the Beasts by Elizabeth Morton
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
Naming the Beasts is a menagerie of poems about the gnarlier aspects of being a creature of this world. Within these pages wilderness and suburbia collide. The 'I' in these poems takes many forms: a wolf, a waterbuck, a bird 'stuck circling the carnage'. Whether soaring above or prowling through the nei ...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
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
Skinny Dip: Poetry by Susan Paris & Kate De Goldi
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
A poetry anthology from the makers of the famous Annuals. A new school year: nits, crushes, maths lessons, and rainy-day lunchtimes. But what happens when you send a bunch of poets to school? They loiter in corners and see between the lines. They notice the school bus is missing, there are hungry piranh ...Show more
Landfall 242: Spring 2021 by Lynley Edmeades (editor)
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Series: Landfall Ser.
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's best writers. There are reviews of the latest boo ...Show more
Night School by Michael Steven
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Steven's Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art and aroha can save us in a godless world.
At the White Coast by Janet Charman
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
Making landfall among the inhabitants of a gritty metropolis, these poems transport the reader from the white coast of New Zealand, the Land of the Long White Cloud, to the shores of another country and another time. Set on the cusp of the 1970s and 1980s, Janet Charman's compelling poetry collection ce ...Show more
A Sign of Light by Jamie Trower
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Birdboy observes the world through a pair of binoculars. Dog trots behind him at a distance, tongue lolling from its slobbery jowls, tail wagging. The memory of his dead mother, a strange man in yellow Y-fronts, a broken whisky bottle, his mobile phone. In Anatomy, Jamie Trower’s unique voice took the ...Show more
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