Tumble by Joanna Preston
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
Award-winning poet Joanna Preston's beautifully crafted second collection charts a course for the journey from child to woman. Her voice swoops the reader from the ocean depths to the roof of the world, from nascent saints, Viking raids and fallen angels to talking cameras and an astronaut in space. tum ...Show more
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign wor ...Show more
Two Left Feet by W.F. Stubbs
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Two Left Feet takes the reader on a literary journey from the sunny hills of Tasman, to summer rain in Central Otago, down to Invercargill and back up again to the sandfly-ridden West Coast, as two travellers explore the struggles and joys of a close-knit relationship in an L300 van while exploring the ...Show more
Roar Squeak Purr: A New Zealand Treasury of Animal Poems by Paula Green
45.00 NZD
Category: Children - Poetry
A marvellous menagerie of animal poems for children by New Zealand's best writers - some of them children - selected by star New Zealand poet Paula Green and adorably illustrated by Jenny Cooper.A marvellous menagerie of more than 200 animal poems by Aotearoa's best writers, ROAR SQUEAK PURR shows just ...Show more
At The Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
At the Point of Seeing is the extraordinary debut collection from Ōtepoti Dunedin poet Megan Kitching. Poised, richly observant and deftly turned, Kitching’s poems bestow a unique attention upon the world. Her eye is finely attuned to the well-trodden yet overlooked – the places between ‘dirt and thumb’ ...Show more
Big Fat Brown Bitch by Tusiata Avia
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She is sitting in a garage in South Auckland with her two brothers and discussing the majestic architecture of atoms. She is playing an audio book of The Power of Positive Thinking at hers ...Show more
Remember Me - Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand by Anne Kennedy (Editor)
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera Lindsay Bird, the rhythms of poetry have carried our sounds and stories, our loves and losses for generations. Now Anne Kennedy brings together for the first time a selection of over 2 ...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
The Pistils by Janet Charman
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
The Pistils is a dispatch from the cusp of change. It appears at the severing of a 40-year relationship following the illness and death of poet Janet Charman's partner during the Covid restrictions. Here, she chronicles her experience with transition - to the digital age, to single life, to carbon neutr ...Show more
Rededits by Cochrane Geoff
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
In his new collection, Geoff Cochrane defies his own advice to disappear. Instead, he traces wry, darkly glittering lines from odd fragments, encounters, overheard conversations, and moments of absurdity and revelation. RedEdits is the work of one of the most memorable voices in New Zealand poetry. Cove ...Show more
Halcyon Ghosts by Sam Sampson
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
A collection that takes flight in many directions but remains grounded by the keen intent and ability of this award-winning poet. Halcyon Ghosts presents thirteen poems, thirteen shapes of knowing – from the cinematic reel ‘The Kid’, splicing stills of the poet’s grandmother and Charlie Chaplin, to the ...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