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
Meat Lovers by Rebecca Hawkes
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
A tenderly devastating look at our cows and ourselves by a remarkable new poet.In this dazzling first collection, acclaimed Wellington poet and Canterbury farm-girl Rebecca Hawkes takes a generous bite from the excesses of earthly flesh - first 'Meat', then 'Lovers'.'Meat' is a coming of age in which po ...Show more
Formica by Maggie Rainey-Smith
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Formica begins in 1950s Richmond with the author’s family struggling in the aftermath of a war that took her father to Crete to fight and then Poland as a prisoner of war. At the Formica kitchen table, Maggie’s mother is reciting poems while chopping the veggies for tea. Maggie listens while tying her b ...Show more
Alzheimer's and a Spoon by Liz Breslin
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: Fine
when life gives you spoons, demand a refund, an inquiry when life gives you spoons, scoop the innards, carve a heart when life gives you spoons, collect a set Alzheimer's and a Spoon takes its readers on a tangled trip. Public stories - a conversation at the Castle of the Insane, online quizzes to deter ...Show more
Life & Customs by Bernadette Hall
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Life & Customs begins and ends in Otago. It circles through places and through history, picking up the rhythms of a maze. It is full of stories: a girl slips into an anorexic silence as cold as Antarctica; lovers wander hand in hand into a southern future. ‘The hope thing’ emerges as a stubborn poss ...Show more
Toku Papa by Solly Ruby
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
When you first told me that you gave me the name of our tupuna so that I would be strong enough to hold our family inside my ribcage, I believed you. Here you are. Here is how I saw you, trapped in your own amber. Now it’s time for you to believe me. Tōku Pāpā is a book that serves as a map of survival ...Show more
Naming the Beasts by Elizabeth Morton
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
Naming the Beasts is a menagerie of poems about the gnarlier aspects of being a creature of this world. Within these pages wilderness and suburbia collide. The 'I' in these poems takes many forms: a wolf, a waterbuck, a bird 'stuck circling the carnage'. Whether soaring above or prowling through the nei ...Show more
Lay Studies by Steven Toussaint
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
In Lay Studies, Steven Toussaint conducts an impressive range of lyric inventions, pitching his poems to that precarious interval between love and rage. Beneath their formal dexterity and variety, these études sustain a continuous meditation on the concords and dissonances of worshipful life in an age d ...Show more
Katūīvei - Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (Katuivei) by David Eggleton (Editor); Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Mere Taito (Editor)
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation between cultural spaces. This collection of 137 poems by 89 Aotearoa-based Pacific poets explores that navigation. This significant collection ranges from long-established voices ...Show more
Fancy Dancing: New and Selected Poems 2004:2020 by Bernadette Hall
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
Hedge through the hedge and way back then pushing my way out into the Central Otago sun there was the laughing face of Jean and someone else whose name I have forgotten they played with me as if I was a doll Bernadette Hall is Otago born and bred. Following a long and much enjoyed career as a high sch ...Show more
More Favourable Waters - Aotearoa poets respond to Dante’s Purgatory by Marco Sonzogni (ed.); Timothy Smith (ed.)
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: very good
More Favourable Waters is an anthology of contemporary poets from Aotearoa New Zealand commemorating one of the world's great poets, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), 700 years after his death. The anthology was published on 25 March 2021, which is Dante Day, chosen by the Italian Government to celebrate the ...Show more
Listening In by Lynley Edmeades
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
In her second collection, Lynley Edmeades turns her attention to ideas of sound, listening and speech. Listening In is full of the verbal play and linguistic experimentation that characterised her first collection, but it also shows the poet pushing the form into new territories. Her poems show, often ...Show more