Escape Path Lighting by John Newton
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
A drunken poet obliged to choose between Art and Love. What could possibly go wrong? Rock Oyster Island. It's a slack kind of place, but that's the way the locals like it: lifestyle farmers, pensioned-off bikers, seekers and healers, meth cooks and fishing guides. It's only a ferry ride to the city but ...Show more
Salt: Coastal Connections by Terry Fitzgibbon
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Ready for summer, Salt: Coastal Connections celebrates New Zealand’s coastline with 160 pages of breath-taking and evocative B & W photography. Accompanied by lucid and lively poems by Terry Fitzgibbon, Salt revels in the wonder of our coastline. As an island nation, the coastline is our moat, ou ...Show more
James K. Baxter: The Selected Poems by James K. Baxter
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
James K. Baxter (1926–72) was, as he once described Louis MacNeice, ‘the most human of poets’: a flawed, passionate, complex, haunted man, a ‘lively sinner’ who revealed himself fully and unapologetically in his poems. As editor John Weir has written in his introduction, ‘from his various quarrels with ...Show more
Ngā Wāhine e Toru / Three Women by Glenn Colquhoun
53.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
In this collection of poems Glenn Colquhoun writes to his daughter, former partner, and mother, using the medium of Māori oral poetry. In doing so he explores oriori, karakia, haka, mōteatea, pātere, waiata aroha and waiata tangi. It is a companion volume to Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā, his ...Show more
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog... or a bejewelled Christmas sleigh, gliding triumphantly through the contemporary aesthetic desert... this is at once an intelligent and compelling fantasy of tenderness... heartbreaking and charged with trees.. ...Show more
After-Burn - Poetry Aotearoa New Zealand Yearbook 2023 by Tracey Slaughter (Editor)
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
Each year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets. The packed issue #57 features over 150 new poems - including ...Show more
Jerusalem Sonnets, Love, Wellington Zoo by David Beach
27.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
In his fourth collection David Beach tackles a subject inescapable for any New Zealander writing sonnets; a subject inescapable for any writer of sonnets at all; and a subject which is just inescapable.
Time to Sing Before the Dark by Helen Bascand
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Flight, song, darkness and light, history, fable and furniture. From the botanist to the birdcage, from rescue to ruin, Helen Bascand's fifth poetry collection charts a tilting world with her customary elegance, wit and intelligence.
Dangerous Country of Love and Marriage by Wicks Amy Leigh
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
In this powerful collection, Amy Leigh Wicks takes the reader on a literal journey from New York City to Wellington and Kaikoura, and on an emotional journey from youth into `the dangerous country of love and marriage'. Wicks produces sharp, sensory poems that circle around love and commitment, migratio ...Show more
Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā by Glenn Colquhoun; illustrations by Nigel Brown
53.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
In this collection of poems Glenn Colquhoun explores a range of Pākehā oral poetic forms; sea shanties, hymns, ballads, nursery rhymes and clapping songs. It is a companion volume to Three Women, his collection of poetry in Te Reo Māori, and is richly illustrated by Nigel Brown. A soundtrack to the poem ...Show more
Actions and Travels - How Poetry Works by Anna Jackson
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
A brilliant introduction to how poetry works through one hundred poems.Through illuminating readings of one hundred poems - from Catullus to Alice Oswald, Shakespeare to Hera Lindsay Bird - Actions & Travels is an engaging introduction to how poetry works. Ten chapters look at simplicity and resonan ...Show more
Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
They saw things in me I wanted to see in myselfthat’s why I let them see me that’s why I let them see meon certain nights in certain lights when the planetslined up like a string of pearls in the sky and the moonwas the correct hue Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble. These poems l ...Show more