Funkhaus by Hinemoana Baker
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A queer / takatapui Māori writer living in Berlin, Germany since 2015, Hinemoana Baker brings a unique perspective both to and from the 'global North'. Drawing on the German meaning of the word 'funken' - to send a radio signal - her latest collection broadcasts unsettling songs of rebirth, love, friend ...Show more
Landfall 240 by Neale Emma
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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, reviews and cultural commentary. Landfall 240 also features the winner of the 2020 Landfall Essay Competition as well as judges' comments. ...Show more
A Vase And a Vast Sea by Jenny Nimon (Ed)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In A Vase and a Vast Sea, poetry and prose rustle against the window, scatter palm fronds across the road and sneak off to the movies on a Tuesday. There are moments of nostalgia blended with dangerous undercurrents and domestic life. Edited by Jenny Nimon, this collection is a reunion of writers such a ...Show more
Lifted by Bill Manhire
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: VUP Classics
Description: The last lines of Bill Manhire's astonishing poem 'Kevin' lie at the heart of this book. These poems want urgently to know how the secular spirit can lift itself in the face of mortality and human violence. They are full of richness and courage and surprise, turning from grief to curiosity; ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
The collected poems of New Zealand's best-loved poet in a handsome volume. "A poem is a ripple of words on water wind-huffed ..." This volume showcases the finest examples of Hone's poetry, from his early triumph in No Ordinary Sun (one of the most reprinted collections in New Zealand) right up to his f ...Show more
This Is Not A Pipe by Tara Black
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
I've decided to document my life in pictures. It's hard to draw the pole, because of the pole. Beth has a pole through her arms. This is not a metaphor. A metaphor would be a lot less inconvenient. On the other side of the room, Kenneth is creating a new religion. He thinks narrative is the operating pr ...Show more
Chosen by Geoff Cochrane
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'Each and every day, at some point on our walk, he stops and lets me know that this is today's person, the party he wants to be introduced to.' The nineteenth collection of poems by cult Wellington poet and pedestrian Geoff Cochrane. Geoff Cochrane is the author of eighteen collections of poetry, two no ...Show more
Some Things to Place in a Coffin by Bill Manhire
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Bill Manhire's first new collection of poems for seven years takes its title from his elegy for his close friend the painter Ralph Hotere, who died in 2013. At its heart is the sequence 'Known Unto God', commissioned by the BBC for the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016. These are poems of mem ...Show more
The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia
$25.00 NZD
Category: Ockhams 2021
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
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 by Jack Ross
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. It presents the work of talented newcomers as well as that of established voices. This issue features the winning entries of the Poetry New Zealand competition, as well as ov ...Show more
Poetry New Zealand Yearbook: 2019 by Jack Ross (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Ser.
Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcasesnew writing from New Zealand and overseas. It presents the work of talented newcomers as well as that of established voices. Issue #53 features 130 new poems (including work by this year's featured poet, Stephanie Christie), es ...Show more