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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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