Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her waywa ...Show more
Echidna by essa may ranapiri
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Echidna is a dangerous animal; she pokes holes in men just to remind them what kind of monster she is wakes up every single morning and chooses violence cos what choice does she really have? essa may ranapiri's second poetry collection follows the story of Echidna, their own interpretation of the Greek ...Show more
Middle Youth by Morgan Bach
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
The poems of Middle Youth look directly into the fire. Sometimes they find joy and the possibility of sustaining oneself; sometimes they feel the sense of an ending. Morgan Bach writes with a dark, crackling energy and controlled rage about the world we find ourselves in. Here are the loves that fi ...Show more
Geoff Cochrane - Selected Poems by Geoff Cochrane
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
This Selected Poems presents the best of Geoff Cochrane's many published collections, from Aztec Noon (1992) to Chosen (2020). 'Geoff Cochrane's is a whole world, rendered in lines at once compressed and open, mysterious and approachable.' -Damien Wilkins 'Over the years, Cochrane's work has been a jo ...Show more
Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word by David Stavanger; Anne-Marie Te Whiu
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Over the past decade, Spoken Word has established itself as a central part of contemporary Australian & New Zealand poetry. For the first-time ever, these voices are transported from the stage to the page, captured in print so that the spoken-word experience can be shared with a new and broader audi ...Show more
Talia by Isla Huia
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Talia is the debut poetry collection from Isla Huia (Te Āti Haunui a-Pāpārangi, Uenuku). It is a critique of hometowns, an analysis of whakapapa, and a reclamation of tongue. It is an ode to the earth she stands on, and to a sister she lost to the skies. It is a manifesto for a future full of aunties an ...Show more
Letters to Young People by Glenn Colquhoun
42.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
“It is difficult to ignore the story of a young person. When they are in pain, that pain seems all the more demanding because they are vulnerable and because their life still lies ahead of them ... I have learnt that the most important medicine they need from me is to listen to these stories, to hold th ...Show more
No Other Place to Stand - An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand by Jordan Hamel; Rebecca Hawkes; Erik Kennedy; Essa Ranapiri
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
Ninety-one writers with connections to these islands grapple with the biggest issue facing people and the planet. What, then, for the work of poetry? It's at the very periphery of popular speech, niche even among the arts, yet it's also rooted in the most ancient traditions of oral storytelling, no matt ...Show more
The Lifeguard : Poems 2008-2013 by Ian Wedde
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Very Good
'You have to start somewhere / in these morose times' begins the title sequence of this collection, in which the dual, duelling lifeguards of east and west, sunrise and sunset, glib Narcissus and one-eyed Polyphemus, watch over a collection that explores the contradictions between life's pool-side surfa ...Show more
Landfall 243 - Autumn 2022 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 asbiographical and critical essays, and cultural commentary. Each issue brims with a mix of vital new work by this country's bestwriters. There are reviews of the latest books, ...Show more