Tree Space by Maria McMillian
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Near Fine
Tree space is the vast mathematical terrain occupied by ancestral trees of a group of species. Between them the trees, some bushy and some stark, account for all possible ways in which species might relate to one another. Maria McMillan's first full collection creates a new, invigorating space in New Ze ...Show more
Lost Relatives by Siobhan Harvey
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Very Good
Siobhan Harvey is the editor of Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers in Discussion and Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand Poems about Animals. Her poetry and prose have appeared in many New Zealand and international magazines and anthologies, and have been broadcast on Radio New Zealand.
Light Cones by Peter Rawnsley
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
It is the light and lightness and the natural world that pervades the whole of this debut collection by Peter Rawnsley.
Wow by Bill Manhire
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road that brings us here. Bill Manhire's new book begins with the song of an extinct bird, the huia, and journeys on into troubling futures. These poems reach ...Show more
Leaving the Red Zone: Poems From the Canterbury Earthquakes by edited by James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
More than 400,000 peopleMore than 14,000 earthquakes5 yearsPeople talked about quake brain, but theCanterbury earthquakes, despite or becauseof this, generated amazing bursts of creativity:music, dance, astonishing street art; and poetry.Leaving the Red Zone is a rich and wide-rangingcollection showcasi ...Show more
The Artist by Ruby Solly
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
At first there is nothing but black sand, then something begins to grow; a gentle song emerges so bright that sound becomes sight . . . And so from the black the world is sung into being, not for us, but for itself, but for the song. In a Southern land, where the veil of time and space has worn thin, tw ...Show more
The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Kneel like a prayer full of lynching This is my God-given white ‘Savage is as savage does. And we’re all implicated. Avia breaks the colonial lens wide open. We peer through its poetic shards and see a savage world – outside, inside. With characteristic savage and stylish wit, Avia holds the word-blade ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Near Fine
This is the first complete edition of Katherine Mansfield's poetry, including 26 poems, dating from 1909-10, discovered by Gerri Kimber in the Newberry Library in Chicago in 2015. This edition is made up of 217 poems, ordered chronologically, so that the reader can follow Mansfield's development as a p ...Show more
My American Chair by Elizabeth Smither
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
White lies, hip replacements and ballet with a sawhorse. Parisian drycleaners and the brush of the grass in Central Park. In My American Chair, Elizabeth Smither leads us through serendipitous encounters, the uncanny in the ordinary, the intricacies of friendship and ruminations on mortality. Assured, i ...Show more
Biter by Claudia Jardine
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Ancient Greek epigrams drive a bitingly contemporary first poetry collection.Filled with hickeys puttanesca and tart wit, BITER is an apt title for Claudia Jardine's debut collection of verse. Fresh translations of erotic Greek epigrams are threaded through boozy sonnets, ecstatic odes and startlingly v ...Show more